sample paper P-4 Ethics MAINS 2014 (Hope this paper will help you :)) Each question is of 12.5 marks: Q.1 Delay in the completion of infrastructure work resulted into some ethical concerns. Discuss some of the ethical concern on the public procurement projects. Give some suggestion to solve these problems. Q.2 What do you mean by corporate governance. Discuss some of the ethical issues in the corporate governance in recent years. Give some suitable example. Q.3 “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself” and “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. What do you understand by this statement? How can this principle be implemented in enhancing the work culture? Q.4 “Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true” Swami Vivekananda. What it mean to you in the present context. Q.5 “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge” Plato. What it mean to you in the present context. Q.6 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. What it mean to you in the present context. Q.7 What do you understand by Integrity and empathy? In what way is it important to be ethical along with being professionally competent? Q.8 Increasing women violence highlighted declining morals and values. Discuss some of the morals and values needed and the role of teachers and family in this regard. Q.9 Development of the attitude resulted in to so many problems and soloutions. Discuss this statement in context of Khap panchayat and rural sanitation. Q.10 Discuss the components of Emotional intelligence. Highlight the role of Yoga and rehabilitative training in emotional intelligence. Q.11 What do you mean by public service. Highlight the role of probity in delivering the public services. Q.12 Attitude and aptitude are the two part of the same coin. Elaborate with the help of recent NGO funding controversy. Q.13 In 2001, ABC marketed a vaccine product known as P7. The product enjoyed the full backing of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and several professional organizations recommended and endorsed its usage in the pediatric population. The product was used successfully for over a decade. In 2010, the vaccine producer was granted approval to market a new version – P13– that added substantial improvement in the vaccine protection rates. As might be expected, the vaccination also came with a higher cost than P 7, and there was substantial hesitance, initially, on the part of local insurers to cover the vaccination – as P7 was still usable and well-established. Eventually, as it became apparent that the insurance carriers made P13 a “covered service” – meaning that the vaccine was allowed on the insurance company’s immunization formulary – the reimbursement margin to physicians providing the new vaccination would be substantially less that the margin for P7. Members of the local pediatric community engaged in a heated discussion regarding this issue. Some felt that the parents of the child should make the decision as to which vaccination they preferred and pay the difference (out of pocket) for the difference in the vaccine cost. Others advocated a boycott of the new product, noting that the P7 was adequate and that the protection was sufficient. One of the pediatricians, a local expert in infectious diseases, stated very clearly that national medical organizations had issued statements supporting the use of the newer product. The local medical ethicist – also a pediatrician – argued that children should not be “held as a hostage” in the deliberation with insurance companies and that the pediatrician had a prima facie duty to offer the best available care to the child. How should the individual pediatrician respond? Should the pediatrician use a less expensive and well-established vaccination product with adequate reimbursement rather than a newer, more expensive version with better bacterial protection that has a lower profit margin? Q.14 In a meeting, an employee makes a derogatory or harassing comment about another employee. You are his manager. You know him that he is humorous person. But the comment made by him was not to be taken as casual. What would you do? Would you take any immediate step in the meeting itself or would you discuss it later on? What would be impact of your decision in each case? Q.15 Case Study 3: You are pressurized by a business partner to make false claims about a product or to inflate a price. You know that this kind of pressure can bring profit in the short run but hurt business reputation in the long run. However, you are not at a position to object the move as this would put your company at liquidity crisis, as your partner may cancel his agreement. Your partner is investing capital on your behalf. What you would do? Q.16 You are Mayor of a municipal corporation and you notice that one of your subordinate was a good employee with good manners, but over a few months his appearances and ways have changed. He has changed his behavior. Other employees have complained about his ill mannered behavior. You feel you need to approach him. But, you fear that something might be wrong and also worry that the effect of his changed behavior might affect his relationship adversely with his colleagues. How do you approach him? What are the options available to you? Evaluate each of these options and choose the option which you adopt, giving reasons. Q.17 You are a junior manager at one of the major manufacturing companies in India. The company has recently introduced some policies which have adversely affected the wages of labour force. Aggrieved due to this decision, the union has decided to call a strike. What would you do? a. Schedule a meeting with the leader of the union assuring him that the policy would be revoked soon. b. Report the issue to the higher management and follow their directive. c. Interact with the union members and try to persuade them to raise the issue with senior management without going on a strike. d. Fire the entire work force and hire new workers. Q.18 You are working very hard on a report for around two months and now it is almost ready for submission. Just two days before the date of submission, you discusses the summary of the report with a more experienced and well respected member of your team. He tells you that some amendments can help improve the report. What are the options available to you? Q.19 ABC is a world renowed MNC in The Athletic Footwear Industry having its factories, outlets ofiices in several countries. It is enjoying benefits of a global corporation such as economy of scale and has become world leader in the design, distribution, and marketing of athletic footwear. ABC has outsourced almost all its production to Asian and African countries to reduce its cost . ABC has been criticized for sourcing its products in factories/countries where low wages, poor working conditions, and human rights problems including child labour were rampant. Initially, ABC refused to accept any responsibility for the various labor and environmental/health problems found at their suppliers’ plants. Workers at these factories were not ABC employees, and thus ABC had no responsibility towards them. But later on ABC formulated a code of Conduct for its suppliers that required them to observe some basic labor and environmental/health standards. However, Critics have charged that ABC’s Code of Conduct is minimalist and not fully enforced, claiming that posting the Code in factories where most employees are functionally illiterate and/or do not possess the power to insist on its implementation is simply window dressing. What according to you the company should do to maintain its image in the global market. Q.20 You are a joint secretary in the ministry of power. There is a huge wastage of coal in a thermal power plant. You have been assigned a job restricting the wastage of coal in a thermal power plant such as wastage due to calorific value of coal, pilferage at pit head or in transit etc. What actions you are going to take as a point of your decision? a. Restricting coal production and balance of demand will get fulfilled by import b. Setting up of a new thermal power plant at pit head itself c. To allow local companies for self coal mining and provide all assistance to arrest pilferage at pit head or in transit. d. By synchronizing production and dispatch and minimizing coal stock in collieries.
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