Team 31

L H Nguyn | 1132300274
Nguyn Thu Minh | 1132300067
Nguyn Minh Trng | 1132300432
Nguyn Hiu Trung | 1132300366
L Trn Phng Dung | 1132300176

CASE ANALYSIS
CASE 38. A CANDY CONFESSION

Question 1. What are the ethical issue in this case?

There are two main ethical issues in this case. The first issue is the fraudulent activity of
the concession supervisor, in which the supervisor intentionally damaged in-perfect-condition
chocolates boxes in order to take them for his personal interest. This activity is one kind of
property theft and negatively influences operations effectiveness of the movie theatre.
Furthermore, it may be considered as embezzlement that occurs when someone who was
entrusted to manage or monitor someone elses assets steals all or part of that assets for the
taker's personal gain. The second ethical issue in the case is that the student received and used
stolen assets, and that may be identified as a connivance activity, which is willingness to allow or
be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act.
The case provides a circumstance, in which the student is coping with a wrestle with his
conscience. Specifically, on one side, the student has been aware of his concession supervisors
evil deed is a fraudulent doing, thus, his moral philosophy motivates him to denounce to the food
& beverage manager. Nevertheless, on the opposite side, the student had partaken in the wrong
activity by eating the candy that his supervisor offered, so that mistake results in an afraid of

offending psychology, which provides a fear to tell the true. Thus, the student is standing in front
of a moral dilemma to decide to tell the true or not tell the true.

Question 2. Does eating the candy make me responsible for the problem?
As a thinking of law, the student may be seen as an accomplice through eating the candy
and not denouncing his supervisors wrong activity, and he has to take relevant responsibilities
for the problem. However, the students fault may be not significant, because he just ate a few of
chocolates and not directly damaged chocolate boxes. Besides that, his fault can be fixed based
on his appropriate decision that is telling the true of the supervisors embezzlement to the food &
beverage manager.

Question 3. Should I step forward and tell the manager what happened?
Although the student can be seen as an accomplice of unethical behaviors and he might take
the responsibility for what happened, there is a need to tell manager the true of what was going
on in the case. This recommendation is based on several reasons:
o He is now a student and working for a part-time job in the summer. Besides that, he
might leave this job as soon as a new semester comes. For these reasons, there is no need
to be afraid of being fired or unfair treated by the manager or supervisor when telling the
manager what your supervisor had done.
o Eating candy that is given by unethical act might result in partaking this act;
notwithstanding, his responsibility would be limited due to the fact that he did not
directly cause the problems but his supervisor.

He might feel guilty when receiving and eating the candy from his supervisor and then
confess his fault to the manager. Nevertheless, what is more important, keeping the
supervisor in guiltless because of receiving the candy or being silent and watching

unethical act happens day by day and cause a lost in owner income.
o Hiding someones fraud and unethical behavior at the student age might lead to an
unpredictable consequence in the future. If he accepts and has no doubt about those
activities for a long time, he might become a person just like the supervisor and would
o

lose his ethical thought and behaviors.

There are several ways that the student can confess to the manager such as hotline or
secret box of the organization. He can choose any approach that him believe it is an
effective way to denounce to the manager.

Question 4. What would you have done?

If I were the student, I would say some words to the supervisor right after I saw my
supervisor act wrongly. It is not about frightening him out of throwing candy into the floor, but
let him know about the consequence of this act. He could never think about it before and he just
did what he wants to do at that time. If he accepts my recommendation and stop holding this
unethical behavior, I might keep in secret what he had done. Nevertheless, if he refuses my
recommendation and having unfair behavior with me, I could tell the trust to the manager when I
am asked to answer.