Your supervisor manages the corporate office where you work as a systems analyst

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Your supervisor manages the corporate office where you work as a systems analyst. Several weeks ago, after hearing rumors of employee dissatisfaction, he asked you to create a survey for all IT employees. After the responses were returned and tabulated, he was disappointed to learn that many employees assigned low ratings to morale and management policies.

This morning he called you into his office and asked whether you could identify the departments that submitted the lowest ratings. No names were used on the individual survey forms. However, with a little analysis, you probably could identify the departments because several questions were department-related.

Now you are not sure how to respond. The expectation was that the survey would be anonymous. Even though no individuals would be identified, would it be ethical to reveal which departments sent in the low ratings? Would your supervisor’s motives for wanting this information matter?

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It would definitely be unethical to reveal the department where low rating was given, but with prior permission and authorisation and approval from the higher management would be ethical to be doing so.

Doing anything without the knowledge of the higher management is unethical and disobeying the organization policies.

Also, one is not aware of the supervisor's motive for getting this information hence a written proof as to why this information is needed would help as a document of proof for the near future'e investigation.

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