Discussion Scenario: You have worked in business for several years and you\'re n

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Discussion Scenario: You have worked in business for several years and you're now ready for some further education. You have applied to multiple prestigious MBA programs via a website that handles the application process for many of these programs.

You're anxiously awaiting replies and expect to receive them in about a month. You're up late one night and, while surfing the Web, you discover instructions for a "back door" way to take advantage of a technical glitch on the website that would allow you check the status of your application and find out if you've been accepted or rejected. Multiple steps are involved, but the instructions provide clear guidance.

Question:

Would it be right to take advantage of this information? Why or why not?

If you were the admissions director or dean of one of these schools and you learned that some applicants had taken advantage of the glitch, what would be the right thing to do?

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Answer: Ethical conduct matters in life and it is essential that an individual should uphold his values. Honesty and integrity are important values which is essential for any person to survive at both professional as well as personal level. The individual is faced with ethical dilemmas where it becomes very difficult to take right decisions. This is exactly the issue in this case. Taking advantage of this glitch is unfair as it will put me in a situation of advantage over the others. This is against the values of honesty and integrity. Therefore in this case I should not make use of this information as it will be unethical.

If I were the admission director then I would have reported this matter to the concerned authorities and asked for undertaking this process again as an unethical practice has taken place.

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