You are to assume the roles of the human resources director and the operations director at Braxton Productions, a company that provides event production services for businesses and organizations. The president of the company has asked you to determine if an employee’s actions are ethical, how to respond to the actions, and how to communicate any changes in processes to staff.
Employees at Braxton Productions travel often. Directors of each department have company credit cards. Employees can choose to book airline tickets themselves and have Braxton Productions reimburse the cost or employees can choose to have their director purchase airline tickets on the company credit card.
The president was told in confidence that a director has been purchasing their entire department’s airline tickets on a personal credit card, not giving the employee a choice. The person that communicated this information to the president feels it is unethical because the director receives point rewards from the personal credit card that will be used for personal gain, rather than giving individual employees a choice.
The president has asked you to analyze the situation and determine the following:
- If the director’s actions are ethical
- Reasons for ethical dilemma
- How to respond to the person that communicated the information to the president
- How to respond to the accused director
- A new air travel expense policy
- Methods to communicate new travel expense policy to staff
