You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secretary of a senior government functionary seeks your intervention in favour of a close relative of that functionary. He also points to your institute's long-pending proposal for modernization funds awaiting the functionary's approval and assures you he can get it cleared.(a) What options are available to you?(b) Evaluate them and choose the option you would adopt, giving reasons.
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secretary of a se’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.
Demand-wise check
- 1From the exact case cue ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secretary of’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secretary of’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secretary of’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- For the case cue ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secreta’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘You head a leading technical institute that will shortly select professors under your chairmanship. The Personal Secreta’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
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Official source anchors
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