It is Thursday, and just as you reach your desk, the phone rings. On the other end of the line is an employee saying one of the company’s executives sexually assaulted her. After a 3-month-long investigation, you have gathered volumes of testimony from the employee’s co-workers. But there were no witnesses to the assault. And the executive has denied all charges. He didn’t even contend a consensual encounter was behind the current complaint. He just says, “Nothing happened.” During the complaint investigation you discover this accused executive is the key contact for your company with a major international customer. What will you do at the conclusion of the investigation, assuming the employee has more credibility than the executive in this complaint? There are no witnesses to the assault, but co-worker statements support the employee’s credibility as well. The company sees itself as an ethical organization, and it rewards managers for ethical behavior on occasion.

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It is Thursday, and just as you reach your desk, the phone rings. On the other end of the line is an employee saying one of the company’s executives sexually assaulted her. After a 3-month-long investigation, you have gathered volumes of testimony from the employee’s co-workers. But there were no witnesses to the assault. And the executive has denied all charges. He didn’t even contend a consensual encounter was behind the current complaint. He just says, “Nothing happened.” During the complaint investigation you discover this accused executive is the key contact for your company with a major international customer. What will you do at the conclusion of the investigation, assuming the employee has more credibility than the executive in this complaint? There are no witnesses to the assault, but co-worker statements support the employee’s credibility as well. The company sees itself as an ethical organization, and it rewards managers for ethical behavior on occasion.






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