Case Name :      Prashanti Technologies: A Workplace Romance Ethical Dilemma

Authors :           Srinivasa Addepalli

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W14663

Discipline :        Organizational Behavior

Case Length :    06 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

In September 2012, the vice-president of Internal Audit at Prashanti Technologies, a multinational corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India, was reviewing an external audit team’s report before a meeting of the company’s ethics committee. The committee had only one item on the agenda: a sensitive case involving a company vice-president, the head of its financial services division, who had been accused by an anonymous whistleblower of conducting a workplace affair with a subordinate. Further, it was alleged that he had unfairly promoted her by giving her additional undeserved responsibilities and that she had taken undue advantage of her workplace romance by giving orders to the rest of the team. The ethics committee was required to decide what action, if any, should be taken against the vice-president and the junior manager.