In late 2013, Nina (name changed), a Senior Correspondent at an Indian weekly news magazine Tehelka was left emotionally scarred and was undergoing significant turmoil about the situation in which she found herself. According to her, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka and veteran journalist, Tarun J. Tejpal (Tejpal), had sexually assaulted her in the elevator of a five-star hotel on two occasions during THiNK Fest 2013, an annual conference organized by the magazine in Goa. The stakes were high — in the line of fire was the founder of Tehelka, a celebrated journalist who was considered a crusader for women’s rights and a champion of the underprivileged. Nina, as a journalist, had always urged women to speak out and break the silence that surrounded sexual crime, but found herself at the cross roads. She feared losing her job and a possible retribution by the powerful Tejpal. However, according to her, her feminist principles and inner conscience drove her to voice her values and she finally decided to bring the incident to light. But her dilemma was — What should she say, to whom, and when? What would be at stake for her?

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Issues

The case is structured to achieve the following teaching objectives:

	Identify appropriate factors, including cross-cultural, surrounding a values conflict such as the issues that enable the protagonists to take action or prevent them from doing so.
	Focus on how an individual raises values-based issues in an effective manner — what he/she needs to do to be heard
	Develop strategies to express the values conflict convincingly and in a way that evokes conversation and problem solving
	Practice articulating one’s position in a values conflict situation by recommending what Nina could say/do
	Examine the GVV approach to empower the protagonist to take action to deal with sexual harassment and ethical lapses in an organization.
	Examine actions to be taken when an employee experiences any kind of sexual harassment and ethical lapses in an organization
	Recognize the need to implement norms to prevent sexual harassment in an organization

Contents

INTRODUCTION

TEJPAL & TEHELKA – TRULY SENSATIONAL

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS....

…BUT FINDING A VOICE

EXHIBITS

Keywords

Ethics; Giving voice to values; Sexual harassment; Perpetrators’ resources and strategies in sexual offending; Leadership; Organizational behavior; Corporate governance; Cross-cultural research; Hofstede; Values conflict; Problem solving; Trauma research;

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