A good quality of the research was the reason why they hired that consultant.
The consultant would rather stay quite in this situation.
The battle with his conscience makes the consultant doubt whether to expose or stay calm.
According to the expectations and ethics of the job which the consultant was hired for he should expose the engineer for her wrong actions.
In case the consultant chooses to expose the engineer, he will solve a major issue and his actions will lead to the strengthening of his reputation.
6.The group could possibly be demotivated to complete the project because of that person’s effect on the group.
Whatever that person chooses it is important that he takes into account all the facts, everyone’s interest, as well as document everything related to the issue.
The company hired the consultant can recognize him unprofessional and cancel all offers related to his further opportunities and career path there.
If the engineer conceals her unethical behavior, both the interns and the engineers will appreciate the consultant’s participation in the project and it will improve a hostile work environment.
It avoids a waste of money, which is what will happen in case the research is shut down due to the consultant’s inability to focus on his main purpose to assess the research simply.
In a case of his right behavior, it will provide new opportunities for him.
However, keeping quiet could also lead to a disaster because later the interns can realize that the details of the research were their intellectual property.
The consultant is the first person who will suffer from the mentioned above situation because being exposed publicly he will lose an opportunity to get good recommendations from the employer as he got before that was the reason why the company hired him.
If the consultant has any disagreements with the engineer, this will only delay his project time and reflect poorly on him making the consultant be stressed and not focused.
Since the consultant has been assessing the quality of the research, one could argue that he had been a supervisor to these engineers and their interns for only last four months.
Keeping quiet also has its drawbacks because the consultant breaks the moral and ethical laws of his work and, therefore, can be frustrating and feeling terrible.
The consultant has to take into consideration all advantages and disadvantages of revealing the details to the management.
The exposure that the consultant will give the engineer would only make her a better worker even in case she made some serious mistakes that would never define her as a bad worker because only those who do not work do not make mistakes at all.
The difficult choice between making the moral decision of exposing the engineer and remaining silent in order not to lose the trust of other employees trapped the consultant.
His another issue, the breach of ethics by not exposing the engineer, has negative impacts going beyond a violation of his moral code.
