Saturday, 14 July 2007

Problem 1: Underhand actions and plagiarism

1) As Deputy Vice Chancellor (Deputy Director), Director of Personnel, how would you act if your Head of Personnel informs you of a potentially difficult staffing problem due to one member of staff having acted in an underhand way towards another (admitted in writing on 27 June 1997) by: plagiarising another colleague's work5 months earlier; sending it off to external referees at other universities in this unauthorised format whilst not informing the colleague of the change of authorship?

Would you:

a) request available information
b) set up an informal meeting with those concerned
c) set up a grievance hearing
d) adopt the ostrich position
e) take pleasure in seeing how things pan out?

Please post your suggestions.

Response to follow.

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