Question

As a practicing engineer, you have been assigned by your company to work in a country where bribery is an almost universal practice, and virtually essential to get government permission for construction permits and other items your company needs to do business. Your direct supervisor explains this to you and asks you to deliver a bribe to a local official. Ethically speaking:______.

Answer 1

it is wrong to do so

Step-by-step explanation:

Note that been ethical involves doing what is right even when no one else is doing the same. In this case, the direct supervisor does not see things from an ethical perspective, rather he believes in the wrong principle of "following after the crowd."

Thus, Ethically speaking, if the practicing engineer follows through with his supervisor's request, he would have done the wrong thing.