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What steps should you take before agreeing to a paid weekend cartooning assignment?
review guidelines, inform your manager, and confirm no conflict of interest
Jenny went on a business trip and had a weekday lunch meeting with a long‑time client. Over the weekend, she met the same client again for dinner. On Monday, she submitted the dinner expense for reimbursement. Will the reimbursement be provided? if yes, why?
No, the reimbursement will not be provided as the meeting over dinner was personal and had no business context.
Requesting a special project discount from a supplier with the implied promise of future business violates Which code of conduct?
offering future benefits in exchange for preferential pricing (G4)
A job requires extensive travel. One candidate is highly qualified but is a single parent.
what action is to be done?
recruiting based on merit and ensuring all eligible candidates receive equal opportunity
A manager asks the team to pick a cheaper deal that harms the environment and tells them not to report the impact, saying past carbon credits cover it and it will help in the long run. Is this a TCOC violation?
Yes its a violation under:
-Lack of transparency
-Misuse of carbon credits
-Unethical decision making
In a situation where an assistant loses critical documents needed for a financial stakeholder meeting and fails to inform the department head in time—causing the head to miss the presentation—what violations occurred?
This is a violation of policy H 2,3 i.e. Our Financial stakeholders.
Your company is bidding for a contract with your former employer, and you have confidential data from that job. What should you do?
never share third-party confidential information and uphold ethical obligations
TCS hired Zifo to build a SQL database, and Vijay, a Zifo employee on the project, asked his unemployed cousin to help write a SQL query—without sharing any TCS confidential information. He informally mentioned that if the work was good, he might refer him for a job at Zifo. Would this situation count as a TCOC violation, or could it be seen as a gray area?
Yes, its a violation.
Conflict of Interest, shadow staffing, unethical behaviour.
Sanjay is tasked with choosing third‑party companies for a new project. He advertises the opportunity openly and selects partners based on merit and equal opportunity. The chosen company's CEO is a distant relative of Sanjay. Did Sanjay violate the TCoC?
The vendor was chosen only based on merit hence there is no violation. (G1)