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QUESTION 12
GS4
20 marks

You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on quality and cost, but the concerned officer demands a hefty bribe to approve the tender. The order is important to the company and your career, while refusal may close a production line. As a value-conscious person, identify arguments for paying and refusing the bribe, and outline a better third way, if possible, with its merits.

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What the examiner wants

For the case beginning ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on quality and’, 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.

IdentifyAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1From the exact case cue ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on quality’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
  2. 2For ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on quality’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
  3. 3For ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on quality’, 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

FactsStakeholdersEthical/legal issuesOptions with consequencesReasoned choiceSafeguards/follow-up

Where marks usually go

  • For the case cue ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on qu’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
  • For the case cue ‘You are CEO of a company making specialized electronic equipment for a government department. Your bid is superior on qu’, 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

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