Explanation:

A special meeting for an executive committee

Anand, vice president, Systems, ground his cigarette into the ashtray

and thought, “Here go those Save

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Earth PEOPLE again.” He had just

read a copy of a memo that Savitri, vice president, Finance, had sent toRajiv, CEO, asking that smoking be prohibited throughout the premisesof Salient TECHNOLOGIES

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both in their Gurgaon and Pune offices.Savitri cited health dangers, reduced productivity, RIGHTS of non-smokers,and damage to company property. Anand knew he would cite somearguments also: the rights of smokers, the unfairness of imposing newrestrictions that were not in place when workers were hired, the reducedproductivity due to stress from not smoking and the fact that otherhealth-related productivity hazards (such as gross obesity) were notbanned. He felt that he could easily get the support of Raghu, vicepresident, MARKETING, and Vinay, general manager, utilities, the other twosmokers in the MANAGEMENT.

Following these developments, the CEO decides to hold a specialmeeting of the executive committee, made up of himself and vicepresidents (which includes Anand, Savitri, Raghu and Vinay) thefollowing week to discuss and resolve the issue. Following his mail,Savitri writes that she would like to bring to the meeting theDepartmental head of HR who also supports the move to ban smoking. Anand writes back saying he would like to include