A person lives in a far off village which is almost two hours by bus. The villager's neighbor is a very powerful landlord who is trying to occupy the poor villager's land by force. You are the District Magistrate and busy in a meeting called by a local minister. The villager has come all the way, by bus and on foot, to see you and give an application seeking protection from the powerful landlord. The villager keeps on waiting outside the meeting hall for an hour. You come out of the meeting and are rushing to another meeting. The villager follows you to submit his application. What would you do?

As you have been asked to give an explanation, so it is the best way to give a written reply explaining the fact. Hence, answer is option (a)

Informing headquarters of your inability to finish the work on time, explaining the reason is the best action. So, answer is option (b).

As both completion of your project and your subordinate attending to his father are important. So, you must transfer your subordinate work to some other employee of similar caliber.

Here, options (a) and (c) are not appropriate as these are not valid on ethical grounds while option (b) is also not valid as you are the head of the office and you have certain important tasks to accomplish.
In this case, option (d) would be the the best course of action as there are certain officials for each work in every office, so one has to consult them,

As you are getting late for the college and no bus is available. In that situation you must have go for other possible conveyance, so as to reach the college at time other option are not the solution to this problem.

In this crisis situation, you must take an authoritative step to launch a campaign to alert the public and also you have to recall the tablets that specific area.

As you are doing your work honestly and with complete dedication, so that best action is not to pay attention to the allegations. Hence, answer is option (c).

The policeman is doing his duty, so he won't understand your reason. Also, that would be a wastage of time, so option (c) is eliminated. Dodging the policeman is making a crime, hence it is also not ethical.
Using references is again not an ethical behaviour. Hence, the most appropriate option is (b) as you have done a mistake, so you have to pay fine for it.

As a responsible project manager, it is your responsibility to pacify the residents, who have complained to you. The best action in such situation is to assure residents of an inquiry into the matter.

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