Use the five-step decision-making process discussed in Chapter 1 to analyze the

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Use the five-step decision-making process discussed in Chapter 1 to analyze the following situations and recommend a course of action. You are beginning to feel very uncomfortable in your new position as a computer hardware salesperson for a firm that is the major competitor of your previous employer. Today, for the second time, someone has mentioned to you how valuable it would be to know what the marketing and new product development plans were of your exemployer.You stated that you are unable to discuss such information under the nondisclosure contract signed with your former employer, but you know your response did not satisfy your new coworkers. You fear that the pressure to reveal information about the plans of your former company is only going to increase over the next few weeks. What do you do?

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Whatever happens, I will not discuss anything about the marketing and product development of my former employer because it’s what we called “trade secrets”.
I will just suggest my new ideas about marketing to satisfy the current employer and coworkers.
I will explain to them that it is an unethical thing if I share it with them.
And it’s my responsibility as an employee to keep confidential information in whatever company where I work and I will explain to them that sooner or someday, the same thing I will do if I will work with another company, that I will keep every information confidential to their company.

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