You are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-cause notices to indisciplined ringleaders, they retaliate by instigating a woman employee to file a sexual-harassment complaint against you. The Women's Commission seeks your explanation and the matter is publicized. Evaluate options including explaining and softening disciplinary action, ignoring the Commission and proceeding firmly, briefing higher-ups and seeking directions, and any other option. Recommend the best course with reasons.
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘You are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-cause notice’, 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 are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-cause n’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘You are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-cause n’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘You are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-cause n’, 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 are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-ca’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘You are an honest officer transferred to head a department notorious for inefficiency. After warning and issuing show-ca’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
Official source anchors
These are authoritative sources selected for this exact PYQ. Where a card is an official-domain anchor rather than a fact-level citation, verify the precise provision, definition or data point on the linked source before using it.
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