01 Jan Describe an ethical

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT 1

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In this assignment, you explore where you currently stand on ethics and write a paper based on a self-assessment.

To prepare for your paper, complete the following:

Chapter 1, page 21, presents a quick test of your ethical beliefs. Complete the 10 questions and score yourself according to the instructions within the text.
Review the Five Business Ethics Myths as presented in your text. Take a minute to consider how, if at all, any of these myths are reflected in your current belief system.
Reflect on this self assessment and, if possible, discuss it with a professional associate or someone who knows you in your work environment, current or past. Consider in this discussion whether your ethical beliefs are well known to others you work with. If they are know, how do they manifest themselves?
Instructions for Writing Your Essay

Prepare a personal statement of your current thinking and understanding of business ethics. Define the personal learning objectives you have for this course in relation to the course competencies.

Your paper should include:

A summary of the quick test results as you perceive them. You do not need to reveal your test score. Summarize the quick test results as valid or not valid, based on your view.
An explanation of why ethics is important. What do you believe to be considered unethical?
A description of your ethical beliefs as they operate in either your current or previous work environment, or an environment in which you would like to work.
A statement of whether or not any of the five myths discussed in your text provide an accurate description of you or your beliefs. Include a rationale for your answer and whether you think the author’s assessment of the five myths is valid. For example, are you a victim of these myths or do you understand them as myths?
A conclusion about your view of studying business ethics and its potential value for all business professionals. Currently, as it relates to ethics, explain what your challenges are and how solid your belief is related to what is considered ethical or not ethical, based on what you know thus far. Include three objectives for what you want to get out of this course.
As you prepare your paper, consider the broad parameters of business ethics as discussed in your text. Do not overlook the section that presents the three reasons for having ethical reasoning in the workplace, specifically the inadequacy of laws, ineffective market mechanisms for regulation, and the intuitive nature of understanding complex moral problems.

Once complete, refer to the Personal Views Ethics Essay Scoring Guide to ensure you have met all requirements of the assignment, then submit your paper in the assignment area.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT 1

Issue Identification
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A person cannot evaluate policies within ethical standards until he or she identifies the issues that those policies are intended to address. In this assignment, you do just that.

Complete the following for identifying an ethical issue:

Identify an potential ethical dilemma from a real company. The company could be a current company for which you work, a company in which you used to work, a friend’s company, or so on. The ethical issue or problem selected must affect the company, potentially affect the company, or involve the company.
Explain the issues involved, including:
Identify the stakeholders.
Identify the concerns of the stakeholders.
For example, a company may chose to videotape the office and read employee e-mails. The conflict here may be that employees feel these practices are a violation of privacy and feel they have a right to a certain level of the privacy. However, stakeholders defend these practices because their concerns are whether the employees are getting their work done.

Explain why you chose this particular issue and why the issue is important.
Examine the current relevance of the issue. Is the issue currently in the media spotlight? Are there any recent incidents or reasons why this issue has come to the public’s attention.
Note:The issue you select is used throughout the entire course project.

Once complete, refer to the Issue Identification Scoring Guide and the Addressing an Ethical Issue course project description to ensure you have met all requirements for the assignment. Then submit your work in the assignment area.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 3 ASSIGNMENT 1

Ethical Motives Essay
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Motives are a key consideration in ethical decision making. This assignment challenges you to apply the author’s four-step process as a tool to determine your motives. Applying this knowledge is a good first step toward building the skills necessary to complete this same type of process when analyzing your motives at work or your organization’s motives in ethical decision making, designing social responsibility programs, and formulating organizational policy.

In Chapter 2 on page 81, the author offers a four-step approach to analyzing your ethical motives. In this assignment, prepare answers to the four steps outlined.

Once complete, refer to the Ethical Motives Essay Scoring Guide to ensure you have met all requirements of the assignment. Then submit your work in the assignment area.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 5 ASSIGNMENT 1

Parameters of Ethical Decision Making
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In preparation for this assignment, you were asked in Unit 3 to read Chapter 2 inBusiness Ethics, which discusses several different approaches for ethical decision making. In addition, you were also asked to research John Rawls’ Theory of Justice as Fairness.

For this assignment, evaluate Rawls’ theory and the other approaches to ethical decision making identified and discussed in this course. Analyze the approach you feel works best in resolving ethical dilemmas. Once you have chosen an approach you feel is best, apply the ethical issue you identified. Assess the resolution your ethical decision-making approach suggests for your issue.

Once complete, refer to the Parameters of Ethical Decision Making Scoring Guide and the Addressing an Ethical Issue course project description to ensure you have met all requirements of the assignment. Then submit your work in the assignment area.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 7 ASSIGNMENT 1

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
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For this project component, you generally assess the impact of corporate social responsibility policy on the workplace and corporate America.

To complete this assignment:

Assess how, and to what extent, corporate social responsibility can be meshed with a corporation’s obligation to maximize profits for its shareholders.
Then, assess the ethical nature of the company you selected. You may want to use the Ethical Weather Report on page 386–387 of your text.
Next, with regards to the issue you chose for the project, assess the impact on the chosen company and other stakeholders—including monetary, legal, and reputation-wise—of continuing the status quo versus addressing your issue via corporate policy.
Once complete, refer to the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Scoring Guide and the Addressing an Ethical Issue course project description to ensure you have met all requirements of the assignment. Then submit your work in the assignment area.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY BUS4801 UNIT 10 ASSIGNMENT 1

Addressing an Ethical Issue
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For this final part of the project, imagine that the CEO has asked HR to review the company’s policies. You have been personally asked to identify an issue you feel needs addressing, to evaluate different parameters for ethically deciding on how to address the issue, and then to evaluate various polices in order to propose a policy that the company can implement to addresses the issue you have chosen.

In completing this assignment:

Describe an ethical dilemma and its importance and relevance.
Identify the various stakeholders and their positions.
Evaluate an ethical decision-making model, apply it to the chosen issue, and analyze options for resolving this ethical dilemma.
Recommend a corporate policy for resolving the issue and support the recommendation with well-reasoned analyses and specific examples, including the impact on the various stakeholders.
Recommend a policy that resolves the ethical dilemma and support the recommendation with well-reasoned analyses and specific examples.
Analyze and recommend a strategy for communicating the policy to the organization in a manner that meets the needs of the audience.
Specify potential limitations of the policy and strategies for monitoring and compliance.
As you can see, many of these points you have already accomplished in the previous parts of the project throughout this course. In this assignment, consolidate those pieces and add additional information to complete the evaluation and recommendation to the CEO.

Once complete, refer to the Addressing an Ethical Issue course project description to ensure you have met all requirements of the assignment. Then submit your work in the assignment area.