Reference no: EM132282517

You are returning from a business trip. As you wait in the departure lounge for your flight to begin boarding, the gate attendant announces that the flight has been significantly overbooked and offers incentives for passengers to take later flights. After several minutes, the offer is raised to a free round-trip ticket anywhere in the continental United States plus meal vouchers for dinner while you wait for your later flight. You give the offer serious consideration and realize that even though you’ll get home several hours later than planned, the inconvenience will be minimal, so you give up your seat and take the free ticket and meal vouchers. Since you are traveling on company time, does the free ticket belong to you or your company? Defend your choice. If the later flight was actually the next day (and the airline offered you an accommodation voucher along with the meal vouchers) and you would be late getting into work, would you make the same choice? Explain your answer. If the offer only reached a $100 discount coupon on another ticket, would you still take it? If so, would you hold the same opinion about whether the coupon belonged to you or your company? Should your company offer a clearly stated policy on this issue, or should it trust its employees to “do the right thing”? Explain your answer.