You must decide whether you should value your professional integrity more than your personal integrity. As Director of Development, he knows and contributes to the company's secret information that should not be disclosed to the public. When he signed the corporate confidentiality agreement, he promised the company that he would not reveal anything related to company secrets. Wigand highly values his professional integrity and wishes to respect the agreement stating: "I don't believe it is possible to maintain business integrity without a confidentiality agreement" (1999). He does not intend to violate the agreement. However, sometimes he feels obliged to reveal the fact because it is against public interests. In this case he must give up one of his standards. Both sides of the issue are fair and ethical; the only thing that will influence the decision is how Wigand sees himself. In “Defining Moments”, Badaracco (1997) states that a portion of stakeholders must be sacrificed by saying “…choices between right and right are fraught with personal risk. In these cases, when managers do one thing right, they leave other right things undone. They feel like they are letting others down and not living up to their standards.” (page 5). He insists that there is no decision that will satisfy all stakeholders. Each decision can satisfy only a part of the needs. Whoever makes the decision will feel like they are losing a part of themselves. In the decisive moment for Wigand, he chooses to defend the vast majority of people and to see himself as an individual with care-based thinking. This decision leads him to a position that has brought with it many negative consequences. In “Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility,” Bok (1980) states that “their careers and their ability to support themselves and their families may be unfairly compromised” (p. 129). When Wigand
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