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Law and Employment Cases and Role Plays

• Mini-cases from Lockheed Martin Corporation
  These mini-cases are part of a game, Graymatters, devised by George Sammet, Jr., to teach ethical norms and Lockheed Martin's policies to their employees. Mr. Sammet is currently Vice President of International Ethics and Business Conduct for the Lockheed Martin Corporation. The game has been adopted by several other very large high tech corporations that are also government contractors.

• Advice from the Texas Instruments Ethics Office
  These pages contain a selection of advice from The Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation. The advice is that of either TI Ethics Director Carl Skooglund, or Glenn Coleman, Manager of Ethics Communication and Education. The articles are distributed among TI employees via TNEWS. Each of the links below takes you to several related TI Ethics Office articles.

• Scenario: Entrepreneur on Company Time
  This scenario details a case in which propriatary issues arise when employees are encouraged to develop ideas for new businesses while working with the company.

• Scenario: The Mirage Referral
  In this scenario submitted by a visitor to the Online Ethics Center, one engineer deceptively recruits another engineer to work as a subcontractor. Ethics Center Advisors give comments.

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