WorksheetsRound 3.2 : Boardroom Showdown – Simulation Challenge
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
You find gender pay gaps in your internal audit. What should be your first step?
Escalate to media
Ignore — it’s historic
Discuss with leadership and set review
Send anonymous emails
A toxic but high-performing manager is accused of creating a fear-based team culture.
Fire immediately
Give bonus
Coach, monitor, and review in 3 months
Transfer to another team
Your CEO wants to skip a harassment complaint investigation to protect PR.
Escalate to ethics committee
Obey CEO
Delay it till the press cools
Ask PR team to write denial
Remote employees feel unfairly left out of promotions. What would you do?
Call everyone back to office
Clarify outcome-based evaluation
Cut remote work benefits
Fire their manager
A junior employee has accused a senior leader of microaggression. There’s no concrete proof.
Dismiss it
Conduct a safe, anonymous inquiry
Tell the leader to behave informally
Leak it to internal groups
A key employee asks for a month’s mental health leave during a peak business quarter.
Decline leave
Send them home permanently
Consider hybrid engagement with support
Say leave not allowed during peaks
An employee repeatedly refuses to join DEI sessions saying they are “biased training.”
Fire them
Make it mandatory
Start dialogue and understand resistance
Give them lowest appraisal rating
An external candidate performs well but has a history of job hopping.
Drop the candidate
Hire anyway
Ask about reasons and assess fit
Lower the pay offer
Your plant union leader threatens a strike if wage revision is not accepted.
Call police
Initiate structured negotiation
Suspend union activities
Freeze all salary hikes
A senior leader wants to promote their relative. There’s no policy against it yet.
Approve quietly
Suggest a formal conflict clause
Go ahead if candidate clears interview
Disqualify without reason
A long-time employee is underperforming after a major personal loss. What should HR do first?
Start termination proceedings
Offer counseling and time-off
Immediately change their job role
Announce it in team meeting
A new hire is highly competent but displays arrogance toward junior staff.
Promote them quickly
Ignore it – they’re new
Provide immediate behavioral feedback
Wait until appraisal period
Your diversity hiring efforts are challenged by business heads saying, “We don’t get enough diverse applicants.”
Lower diversity targets
Source through inclusive hiring platforms
Skip the diversity filter this time
Delay hiring
An employee flags biased behavior from a team leader during a performance review.
Revisit the appraisal process confidentially
Ask the leader to justify the score
Disregard – trust the leader
Make appraisal score public
You notice that women employees rarely speak up in leadership meetings.
Organize a mandatory speaking challenge
Conduct a gender bias awareness session
Appoint a female spokesperson
Ignore – they can speak if they want
Your HR colleague is gossiping confidential employee data in the cafeteria.
File an anonymous complaint
Confront them directly
Report to ethics committee
Join them to avoid awkwardness
A candidate shares they are pregnant during the final round of interviews.
Reject politely due to “business needs”
Ask if she can delay joining
Proceed if she’s the best fit
Avoid giving feedback
There’s a conflict between two departments over ownership of a shared KPI.
Escalate to CEO
Arrange a joint resolution meeting
Ask HR to step back from it
Assign the KPI randomly
A high-potential employee asks for a role switch but their manager disagrees.
Reject the request immediately
Start a talent mobility discussion
Promote them to keep them happy
Transfer them secretly
A long-serving admin staff wants to transition into HR after completing a certification.
Appreciate, but deny due to age
Evaluate based on skills and performance
Let them shadow but don’t promise anything
Assign them HR tasks without clarity
