SCENARIO You are the ethics officer of a marketing firm. The company prides itself on only engaging in ethical business
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 7:57 am
SCENARIO
You are the ethics officer of a marketing firm. The company
prides itself on only engaging in ethical business practices. In
order to ensure that all of its employees understand corporate
ethical policy, new employees must attend an ethics training as
part of the onboarding process. Additionally, every employee must
attend an annual ethics training. These ethical training programs
are developed by the marketing firm’s ethics officer (you), the
marketing firm’s human resources (HR) director, and an outside
consulting firm.
In a joint development session, the team works through the
training development materials that will be presented at this
year’s two-day ethics training session. This year, the focus is on
two primary topics: employees’ rights and responsibilities in the
workplace and employer’s ethical responsibilities toward employees.
In addition, hypothetical ethical scenarios are developed to
evaluate the employees’ understanding of company ethical standards,
general ethical decision-making, and desired courses of action.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a
combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10%
match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or
closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An
originality report is provided when you submit your task that can
be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your
submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used
to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by
more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain
hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Take on the role of the ethics officer in the scenario
and address the following:
1. Describe three rights and
responsibilities of employees based on the scenario.
2. Evaluate two ethical
responsibilities of the employer within the context of the
employer/employee relationship described in the scenario.
3. Develop one ethical business
dilemma that can be used to demonstrate employee understanding of
the company’s ethical standards.
4. Evaluate the dilemma from part A3 from a utilitarian
and relativistic perspective.
5. Describe two common ethical
decisions that reflect corporate ethics and responsibilities that
employees can face while working in a corporate setting.
Note: These should be different from the ethical business
dilemma in part A3.
6. Explain why each ethical
decision in part A5 presents an ethical dilemma and how an
individual might justify unethical behavior (e.g., common
excuses).
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and
references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content
and presentation of your submission.
You are the ethics officer of a marketing firm. The company
prides itself on only engaging in ethical business practices. In
order to ensure that all of its employees understand corporate
ethical policy, new employees must attend an ethics training as
part of the onboarding process. Additionally, every employee must
attend an annual ethics training. These ethical training programs
are developed by the marketing firm’s ethics officer (you), the
marketing firm’s human resources (HR) director, and an outside
consulting firm.
In a joint development session, the team works through the
training development materials that will be presented at this
year’s two-day ethics training session. This year, the focus is on
two primary topics: employees’ rights and responsibilities in the
workplace and employer’s ethical responsibilities toward employees.
In addition, hypothetical ethical scenarios are developed to
evaluate the employees’ understanding of company ethical standards,
general ethical decision-making, and desired courses of action.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a
combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10%
match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or
closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An
originality report is provided when you submit your task that can
be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your
submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used
to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by
more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain
hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Take on the role of the ethics officer in the scenario
and address the following:
1. Describe three rights and
responsibilities of employees based on the scenario.
2. Evaluate two ethical
responsibilities of the employer within the context of the
employer/employee relationship described in the scenario.
3. Develop one ethical business
dilemma that can be used to demonstrate employee understanding of
the company’s ethical standards.
4. Evaluate the dilemma from part A3 from a utilitarian
and relativistic perspective.
5. Describe two common ethical
decisions that reflect corporate ethics and responsibilities that
employees can face while working in a corporate setting.
Note: These should be different from the ethical business
dilemma in part A3.
6. Explain why each ethical
decision in part A5 presents an ethical dilemma and how an
individual might justify unethical behavior (e.g., common
excuses).
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and
references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content
and presentation of your submission.