As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reaching effects on housing and construction. A builder could make huge profits if informed beforehand. Your immediate superior, who is close to a builder known for quality government work, asks you to disclose the information.(a) What options are available to you?(b) Evaluate them and choose the course you would adopt, giving reasons.
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reaching effects’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.
Demand-wise check
- 1From the exact case cue ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reaching ef’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reaching ef’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reaching ef’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- For the case cue ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reachi’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘As a senior Finance Ministry officer, you have confidential information about policy decisions likely to have far-reachi’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
Official source anchors
These are authoritative sources selected for this exact PYQ. Where a card is an official-domain anchor rather than a fact-level citation, verify the precise provision, definition or data point on the linked source before using it.
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