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4.3 Scholarly Paper - Case Study of a Legal Issue Leading to a Leadership Failure

Getting Started

In LDR-305, you considered how ethics should influence the ways in which you make decisions as a leader. You also have to be aware of the laws related to the organization you work in and its field. For example, if you work at a college, you had better be familiar with FERPA and Title IX. If you work on Wall Street you have to be aware of the Dodd-Frank Act. If you work in agriculture, you would have to be aware of FDA laws. All of our organizations work with customers in some capacity, whether those customers are individuals, other businesses, or governments. How we store information related to customers and the regulations related to information storage continue to evolve. Your organization will need to stay informed on these regulations. Leaders have the responsibility to ensure that their organizations and employees are informed and following all relevant laws and regulations.

In this assignment, you will identify an organization that had a major failing in a legal area that damaged their company in some way. Maybe that led to a settlement with customers that cost the organization millions of dollars. Maybe it led to bad press and a loss of sales. Or maybe it led to the closing of the business. Take some time to search the internet for such a story. Evaluate it. Identify what went wrong. And then make a suggestion for how the company could have avoided this mistake.

Pull from your knowledge of previous courses like LDR-305 and LDR-410. It could be beneficial for you to access them in Brightspace and review the content for resources that could help you with this assignment.

At the end of the assignment, you will be challenged to identify what legal issues are related to your organization.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

· Evaluate why an organization found itself in legal trouble and how it could have avoided it.

Instructions

1. Search for an organization that had legal issues. To help you have a well-rounded understanding of the situation, you must find and cite three separate sources describing the situation.

2. Compose a 2-3 page paper addressing the following prompts:

a. Describe the company and circumstance that you are using for your case study. What was it? What was its business? What went wrong (i.e., what were the unethical, immoral, or illegal actions)? What were the ramifications?

b. Based on your learning in the entire program (All content, all your principles, practices, etc.), analyze the organization's "problem" from a leadership perspective. In other words, what were the leadership failures that led to the unethical or illegal actions? Discuss at least three potential leadership failures that occurred.

c. Apply the insights from your case study analysis to your current organization. What are the major ethical and/or legal issues that your organization has to follow? How does your organization make its employees aware of these issues? How would you assess what leaders are (or are not doing) that could protect the organization or make it vulnerable to problems? What would you recommend as changes to how your leaders function or how your organization trains people to act so as not to break applicable laws, regulations, or ethical standards?

3. Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion.

4. Be sure to format your paper using APA and correct citations.