Raytheon Co.'s board has voted to freeze the salary of William H. Swanson at last year's level and pare his new stock grants by 20 percent in response to the chief executive's failure to credit the sources of his 2004 book of homespun management maxims, "The Unwritten Rules of Management."

Here is a look at excerpts from Swanson's book and the "Unwritten Rules of Engineering" written in 1944 by W.J. King. You'll have a chance to express your opinion in a poll at the end.