A Supplier Has Just Been Awarded a Large Contract by Your

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True/False

A supplier has just been awarded a large contract by your company. As an employee in purchasing, you were largely responsible for awarding that supplier the contract. The supplier's sales representative has just called and would like to take you to lunch to thank you for the support. Going to lunch with the sale representative does not present any ethical problems.

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Definitions:

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Harmony

The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the effects of situations when explaining others' behaviors.

Milgram's Research

A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.