Your turn: how would you choose to discipline these misbehaving civil servants?
OTTAWA — Imagine being part of a federal disciplinary panel charged with deciding how to handle a misbehaving civil servant. Below are two genuine situations — the names have been changed — that such panels had to deal with this past year.
What course of action would you recommend? Take the test below and see how you measure up with what the real-life panel decided.
Situation No.1
Marie is already in the civil service, but applied for a new job in a new department. During an exam, Marie was told she could not use the Internet to help with her answers during the three-hour test. She went online anyway to help on two key criteria that were being evaluated. The investigators who looked into the incident believe her actions could have compromised the entire hiring process.