You and Pat are co-workers who have the same manager. Pat needs to make a presentation to the manager and the whole department in four days about how to reduce department costs and is having trouble coming up with ideas. You make a few suggestions to Pat, who admits that they are very good ideas. You attend the presentation and notice that Pat is using all of your ideas, but does not acknowledge that they were originally your ideas . Thus, Pat takes all of the credit. Your manager thinks Pat is brilliant and suggests that Pat could be a candidate for promotion based on these great money-saving ideas.

Analyse the events in the scenario that correlate ethical communication with academic integrity. Describe the violations of ethical communication that you see.

Why is it important to communicate ethically? Why is it important to communicate with academic integrity?