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QUESTION 12
GS4
20 marks

You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While visiting his home for urgent official work, you hear a woman crying and later learn that he behaves badly and physically abuses his wife. Analyze the consequences of:(a) ignoring it as a personal matter;(b) reporting it to the appropriate authority; and(c) your own innovative approach.

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14 min
250 words

What the examiner wants

For the case beginning ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While visiting his’, 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.

AnalyzeBreak it into parts, show how the parts connect, and judge which matter most.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1From the exact case cue ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While visitin’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
  2. 2For ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While visitin’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
  3. 3For ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While visitin’, 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

FactsStakeholdersEthical/legal issuesOptions with consequencesReasoned choiceSafeguards/follow-up

Where marks usually go

  • For the case cue ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While vi’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
  • For the case cue ‘You are a young sincere Government employee working as assistant to a director whom you respect professionally. While vi’, 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.

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