Charandry only II
SIB7012-A - Business Ethics and Sustainability
Final Assignment
OPTION 1 – ETHICAL ISSUE
Additional Guidance
Elements to be included in the assignment
We recommend that you include each of the following elements in your assignment.
Word Count guides are only a guide – some issues will require you to vary from the estimates
given, however the estimates will generally be accurate.
1. Organisational Issue Background
Provide a detailed overview of the selected organisational issue. You can examine aspects such as ‘how’ the issue originated, and its subsequent development within the organisation. You should provide a longitudinal analysis (such as a timeline) to assist you in giving background information.
Identify all stakeholders (not just ‘traditional’ ones such as employees, management and shareholders) and their interests, and justify why you have identified certain stakeholders as more important than others, including by reference to relevant literature.
Word Guide: 350-450 words
2. Ethical Issue
Explain why the issue you selected is ethically problematic by describing and evaluate the problematic dimensions of the selected issue.
Select one consequential theory and perform an applied analysis of that theory to the situation.
Select one non-consequential theory and perform an applied analysis of that theory to the situation.
(Select your theoretical perspectives carefully, specifically considering how different perspectives will practically help you illuminate different aspects of your organisational situation and help you generate solutions to it.)
Briefly identify strengths and weaknesses of your analysis.
Word Guide: 450-550 words
3. Management Analysis
Explicitly and succinctly describe how the organisation’s management of the organisation addressed, are planning to address or did not address the selected organisational issue, including the specific effects of the decision on the organisation and each of the key stakeholders.
Critically analyse the decision (or lack thereof) providing support from related academic and practitioner literature including.
You must draw on your applied analysis from above and use a variety of perspectives from the module – other ethics theories, CSR and sustainability, readings relating to the efficacy of specific management tools and techniques used to encourage ethical conduct in organisations.
Word Guide: 550-650 words
4. Recommendations
Based on your previous analyses, provide specific recommendations for the organisation to resolve and /or avoid the ethical issue, and / or to make a better decision in future.
You must consider carefully and explain how your recommendations may be practically applicable. In that sense, your recommendations need to be styled as a business report for the CEO / Upper Management.
It is important that your recommendations are supported by sufficient examples and literature, including related data where applicable.
Word Guide: 350-450 words
5. Summary and Conclusion
Summarise your essay and make a conclusion about the particular value of ethics and sustainability in the context of the organisational issue.
Word Guide: 50-150 words
6. Appendices
Provide supporting data, information and other relevant information, including (where relevant) diagrams and pictures.
Word Guide: 5-12 pages