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OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Ethical Issues in the 21st Century

Gonzalez-Padron (2015) addressed several ethical issues that have arisen in the 21st century. Choose a scholarly or credible article relating to a 21st century ethical issue. The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

Describe how the ethical dilemma can affect both the organization and society.

Evaluate changes could have been made to prevent this ethical dilemma.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. For your response, take on the role of an organizational leader, based on the evaluations from your classmate, give advice on additional suggested for changes to prevent the ethical dilemma.

Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.

DQ2 Considering Managerial Ethics in the Workplace

Before starting your discussion, read the Forbes article How to make an ethical difference in your business (Links to an external site.). In the article, Zwilling (2013) stated,

Many people seem to have the sense that ethics are spiraling downward in business, yet most business professionals and entrepreneurs I know don’t believe they can make a difference. They don’t realize that if they don’t take an active role in the solution, they really become part of the problem. (para. 1

Review the five solutions to ethical problems described by Zwilling. Select one of the five solutions. Put yourself into the role of leader and evaluate how your chosen solution could be applied to an organizational ethical dilemma.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. Review your classmates’ solutions. In your response, share additional ideas that could make the solution more viable for the organization.

Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.

 

 

 

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Ethics versus Compliance

Before beginning your discussion, read the article Ethics vs. compliance: Do we really need to talk about both? Organizations often use the terms ethics and compliance interchangeably. However, there are some nuances that are different between compliance and ethics. After reading the article, compare and contrast the similarities and differences between compliance and ethics. Evaluate whether a compliance officer or an ethics officer would be a better fit in your current organization (or in an organization with which you are familiar).

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. For your response, take on the role of the organization’s leader and evaluate your classmate’s choice of ethics or compliance from a leadership viewpoint.

Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.

DQ2 Ethics, Compliance, and Training

Read chapter four in the textbook and Ethics, reputation, and compliance gain as corporate priorities (Links to an external site.). In the article, Hagel (2015) stated

The demand for greater transparency from consumers and stakeholders across the world has pushed the areas of ethics and compliance up the corporate list of priorities in recent years. In addition, the risk to reputation and potential damage that can be done if evidence of unethical practice is discovered have increased significantly with the advent of social media. (para. 2)

Based on the importance of transparency, your organization (you can represent any organization, McDonalds, Starbucks, ESPN, etc.) has asked you to create a training presentation on ethics and compliance to be presented next week. Referencing the Hagel article, the Gonzales-Padron textbook, and at least two other journal articles, present an outline for your training as a response to this thread.

Create an outline describing the information that you would include in your training presentation.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 The Ethical Trap

Prior to beginning your discussion response, read The ethical trap (Links to an external site.). Discuss an ethical dilemma that you are aware of in an organization.  Describe how the ethical dilemma  was an ethical trap. Evaluate how the ethical dilemma and the ethical trap could have been avoided.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. When responding to your classmates, offer additional suggestions that could help to avoid either the ethical dilemma or the associated ethical trap.

Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.

DQ2 The Role of Leadership Integrity in Organizational Ethics

Prior to beginning your discussion response, read Managing for Organizational Integrity (Links to an external site.). In the article, Paine (1994) described scenarios of various organizations. Choose one of the ethics topics: integrity as a governing ethic, emphasizing core values, building shared aspirations, or defining right action.

Summarize the information shared in the article for your chosen topic.

Describe how the ethics topic could be incorporated into your organization or an organization that you are familiar with.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. When responding to your classmate, offer at least one suggestion of additional method(s) of incorporating their chosen ethical topic into the organization.

Your response must be a minimum of 150 words.

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 Ethical Leadership

Read the An improved measure of ethical leadership article by Yukl, Mahsud, Hassan, & Prussia (2013), as well as Chapter 7 of Gonzalez-Padron (2015). Complete the Checklist: Ethical Leadership Questionnaire, then answer these following questions from the text:

Describe the behaviors that are most important for you to feel trust in the ethical leadership of a supervisor, manager, or company executive?

Describe  any descriptors in the list that are difficult to observe?

Analyze how ethical leadership can be measured in an  organization?

Evaluate how personal experience with a leader (e.g., work assignments, disciplinary actions) skew your assessment of his or her ethical leadership? Cite an example based on personal experience.

Your response must be a mimimum of 300 words.

DQ2 Recognizing and Identifying Ethical Leadership Failures

Prior to beginning your discussion, read Understanding (and preventing) ethical leadership failures (Links to an external site.). After reading the article, give an example of one or more leadership failures that you are familiar with. You may use an organization, group, or political figure for your discussion.  Describe the failure(s) in detail. Analyze how the failure(s) could have been mitigated.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code?

Read Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code? in Chapter 9, then answer these following questions from the text:

Describe how the title of a company’s ethics document affects your attitude about the content?. Do you find one title more attractive than another?

Describe  the message that the title  “code of conduct” conveys?. Does it reflect the purpose of the document to provide employee guidance on expected conduct?

Propose creative titles for ethics codes for a pharmaceutical company and a restaurant. (Gonzalez-Padron, 2015).

Identify two other company ethics documents and share the titles of their ethics documents (consider your own organization or one that you are familiar with for this question).

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.   

DQ2  Code of Conduct in Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism has become a growing industry, especially in developing countries. Research the topic of medical tourism, and find a scholarly or credible article for your topic.  Develop a code of conduct for medical tourism. Your code of conduct must include

Organizational values

Guidelines for acceptable behavior

Compliance with legislation

Examples of prohibited acts

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Use at least one scholarly or credible source.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Future Ethical Considerations

As the world continues to become more global because of technological advances, the risks will increase.  Choose one of the global risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological. Then choose a specific issue related to the global risk area.

Describe the ethical issue. 

Evaluate how the risk could best be mitigated.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Use at least one scholarly or credible source.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

DQ2 Global Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

A common debate in ethics is universalism versus relativism of ethics and moral codes.  A frequently asked question is “Does a universal moral code exist regardless of an individual’s culture?” As organizations are becoming increasingly global,  and understanding of universalism versus relativism of culture ethics is important.

Compare and contrast universalism and relativism.

Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social corporate responsibility.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Please use at least one scholarly or credible source in your discussion.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 1 Assignment  

21st Century Corporate Social Responsibility

Prior to beginning your assignment, read Chapter 2 of the textbook and  Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century: A view from the world’s most successful firms.

Using the Fortune 100 List (Links to an external site.), choose an organization that has their corporate social responsibility (CSR) statement, vision, and mission statements available on their website.

Quote the statement and describe what this means in your own words

Research a recent article on the organization that is related to their current and/or future CSR activities.

Describe how the new plans will affect the organization, both internally and externally.

Develop an idea for a new CSR endeavor for the organization based on the organization’s mission and vision.

The paper

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text and the article by Snider, Hill, and Martin (2003).

Must document all sources APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Must end with a conclusion that clearly summarizes what was presented in the paper.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Carefully review the Grading Rubrics (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

 

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 2 Assignment  

Regulatory Measures

This assignment is a PowerPoint presentation with speaker’s notes. To prepare for this assignment, access and view the following tutorial: A PowerPoint Tutorial – The Essentials. Also, view Speaker’s notes.

Please note your PowerPoint presentation needs to have two separate parts.

First, you will examine the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO), the Sarbanes – Oxley Act (SOX), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Foreign Corruptions Practices Act (FCPA). In your presentation

Explain the events that led to each of these regulatory measures.

Describe the impact these laws have had on business ethics.

Illustrate your understanding by including examples in your presentation to support your points.

For the second part of the assignment, use the Ashford University Library to choose an article that describes how one of the laws: FSGO, SOX, CFPB, or FCPA affected an organization. Be sure to choose an article that describes how the chosen law has a positive or negative effect on the organization.

Summarize the article

Describe the effects on the organization.

The presentation:

Must be 15 to 20 slides in length (not including the title slide and references slide) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of presentation

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Must document all sources according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 3 Assignment  

Ethical Decision Making

Choose a contemporary ethical dilemma at an organization that you are familiar with or find through research.  Using the article, The PLUS ethical decision making model (Links to an external site.), as a guide create a model for ethical decision making based on your chosen ethical dilemma.

Evaluate all seven steps of the ethical decision-making model.

Analyze how each step can be applied to your chosen dilemma.

Evaluate how the model could have mitigated the ethical dilemma at your chosen organization.

The paper:

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and

formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources not including the course text.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment

Must document all sources APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 4 Assignment  

Developing an Ethical Culture

Prior to beginning your assignment, read Chapters 7 and 8 of the textbook, and Creating an ethical workplace (Links to an external site.).  For this assignment, you will take on the role of a mid-level organizational manager.  In your current job role, you have noticed that the organizational culture is contributing to some unethical decision making by subordinates and peers. You feel strongly that leadership must be not only made aware of the situation but also given appropriate solutions. To communicate with the CEO and shareholders, you must create a memo.  In the memo, you will explain the issues, as well as offer appropriate solutions.  For help in the format and writing style of a memo use  Good example of a persuasive memo. 

In your memo include:

Header: with To, From, Date, and Subject

Introductory paragraph

One to two paragraphs outlining the issues.

Three to six paragraphs describing solutions

A closing paragraph that summarizes the information.

In the memo:

Describe the issues of the current ethical culture

Describe which stakeholders are affected by the issues, such as employees, shareholders, local community, society, etc.

Formulate a plan to change the ethical culture

Convince the CEO and shareholders of the importance of the changes

Memos are a business style of writing rather than academic. You do not need to use in-text citations in the memo. However, your work should be paraphrased rather than quoted. You must include a reference page to demonstrate the use of any resources.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Week 6 Assignment  

Ethics, Compliance Auditing, and Emerging Issues

To prepare for this assignment, review Chapter 9 in the course text, as well as the article on compliance program auditing by Usnick and Usnick (2013). In addition, read Chapter 10 in the course text. Review Table 10.3: Global Risks 2014, and select one of the risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological.

For this assignment, imagine that you have been tasked with creating a proposal for the new CEO of your organization. You have been asked to create a proposal that establishes an ethics program, as well as develop a training plan, and develop a plan to conduct compliance auditing. Your proposal must include the following:

Describe an emerging global risk that is either economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological.

Identify all countries that might be associated with the risk.

Describe the effects of the risk on each country.

Evaluate the role of ethical decision-making in business organizations as the role pertains to your global risk.

Analyze the impact of business ethics on stakeholder relationships.

Analyze why it is necessary to create an ethics program, conduct training, and engage in compliance auditing.

Design a training plan for ethical considerations and social responsibility as it relates to the key risk area and the countries you have selected. The training plan must include the following:

The goals of the training program

The objectives of the training program

The learning methods/activities of the training program

How the training program will be evaluated

Describe how the training will be conducted

Describe how compliance auditing will be conducted.

Summarize the key findings

The assignment:

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page and references page) and and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate title page with the following

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least three scholarly and/or credible sources in addition to the course text and the Usnick and Usnick (2013) article.

The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.