Multiple choice

You are heading a cyber forensic team in a government department. In an order passed by your immediate supervisory officer, three of your team members have been recommended for foreign training of two weeks, but your name has not been considered, although you had mooted the proposal for this training programme. You suspect that it is deliberate on part of your boss with whom you had differences of opinion on another project. As a first point of action you would

  1. Write a formal complaint against your boss alleging favouritism and vendetta

  2. Seek audience from your boss’s superiors and bring this injustice to their knowledge

  3. Speak to your boss requesting him to reconsider his decision because, being the head of the team, it is appropriate that you go for training in the first round

  4. Speak to some of your political contacts to pressurise your boss to include your name
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

2.5 marks for Option (c) 1.5 marks for Option (b) 1 mark for Option (a) 0 marks for Option (d) Logic/ Reasoning (c) Speaking to your boss first is the most appropriate course of action. The omission may only be a slip or it may be a considered view of the higher authorities to hold you in office. Thus there may not be any vendetta behind it. (b) Speaking to your bosses superiors is a course of action to be adopted only when you have already exhausted the first course of action and it is confirmed that his approach towards you is not just. (a) Formal complaint is a remedy to be sought when there is clear case of injustice against you and you have cogent evidence to establish this. (d) Putting political pressure is against government norms and most inappropriate. Principle/ Value Tested Ability to identify the appropriate remedy while seeking justice

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