A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secretly discharged into a nearby river, causing health problems for downstream villagers. Colleagues advise silence because anyone raising the issue is dismissed. She is sole breadwinner for an ailing family, but her conscience urges action.(a) What arguments show that keeping quiet is not morally right?(b) What course of action would you advise and why?
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secretly dischar’, 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 ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secretly di’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secretly di’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secretly di’, 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 ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secret’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘A fresh engineering graduate joins a prestigious chemical industry and discovers that highly toxic waste is being secret’, 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.
Next: plan for one minute, write it in 14 minutes, then get it checked.