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The Turnip Plaza Hotel
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Mark Piper was employed for several years as a tour guide at the Turnip
Plaza Hotel in Port Austin, Michigan. Turnip Plaza is one of Colossal
Corporation’s luxury hotel holdings, strategically located near Lake Huron’s
famous Turnip Rock. Over the years, Mark developed a reputation as one of
the most skillful tour guides in Michigan. He would guide tourists through
extreme kayaking, hiking, and camping adventures in and around the Great
Lakes. He was often requested by name by tourists visiting the hotel and
was featured on extreme sports television. His high adventure kayaking
tours brought in significant revenue for the hotel.
One month ago, Mark was approached by Stacey Nguyen, the manager of
the Huron Overnight Inn—a rival company of Turnip Plaza. Stacey offered
Mark a substantial salary increase to leave Turnip Plaza and come to work
for her. Mark agreed to think about this offer and get back to Stacey in 48
hours. When he returned to Turnip Plaza, he asked several of his colleagues
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what they thought about the offer. One of them immediately went to
Turnip Plaza’s manager, Edward Griffin, and told him the details of Stacey’s
offer to Mark.
Upon hearing of the offer, Edward called Mark into his office and said: “If
you stay with Turnip Plaza, I promise that next month you will receive a
promotion with a 50 percent raise and a guaranteed contract for a twoyear term.” This sounded good to Mark, and he turned down the offer from
Stacey to stay with Turnip Plaza. However, last week, shortly before Mark
was to receive his new contract, he was dismissed from Turnip Plaza
because of corporate restructuring due to concerns about the increased
liability risks of managing high adventure tours through Colossal’s hotels.
Although Mark has not taken any formal action at this point, the vice
president is concerned that Mark might try to hold Turnip Plaza to
Edward’s promise.
Your task is to research the legal and ethical issues associated with this
situation and write a report to the vice president answering the following
questions:
1. What legal theories might Mark use to try to legally enforce Edward’s
promise? Explain the elements of these theories and how they apply
to the facts of this scenario.
2. If Mark were to file a lawsuit and win, what sort of damages or other
remedies might he be entitled to? Include your reasoning and any
evidence that led you to your conclusions.
3. Finally, regardless of the legal implications, the vice president would
like your view on the ethical issues. Does Turnip Plaza have an ethical
obligation to fulfill the promise made by Edward to Mark? Is it right to
lay off Mark under these circumstances? What should Turnip Plaza do
from an ethical perspective? Use ethical theory and principles to
analyze these questions.
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