QUESTION 3 Marilyn is the department head for a large call centre and is responsible for conducting quarterly performance evaluations on her employees. While a good portion of the evaluation is based on areas such as friendliness, punctuality, and customer ratings, roughly half of the appraisal is based on call volume and the conversion of callers to customers. An employee's evaluations are used to determine quarterly raises. Algemar and Nick both work for Marilyn. Marilyn feels that she is a mentor for Nick while she feels that she simply inherited Algemar from another department; thus, Marilyn sometimes strikes from Nick's call records customers who are extremely difficult or perhaps too set against buying the product. For the last quarter, Marilyn awarded Nick a raise while she did not award one to Algemar. Marilyn's awarding Nick a raise based on his evaluations could best be called

Marilyn is engaging in unethical politicking because she is using her power as a superior to other employees, to perform biased tests, in order to benefit more those who she deems more valuable, or considers her friends, and to affect those who she dislikes, or does not view as her friends.

In other words, she is using power to achieve unethical goals, the very definition of the unethical use of political power, of unethical politicking.