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MIS741 – Analysing the Impact of Digital Business Trimester 1, 2018
Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report (Individual)
DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 9, Sun 13th May 2018, 11:59PM PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 30%
Learning Outcome Details
Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)
ULO 2: Justify resolutions to ethical dilemmas faced by IS
professionals resulting from competing personal, organisational
and client interests using ethical theories and frameworks.
GLO8 Global Citizenship
ULO 3: Present convincing resolutions to ethical dilemmas in
written form, and self‐evaluations in written and oral form.
GLO2 Communication
Assessment Feedback:
Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on CloudDeakin on 1/06/2018, 11:59PM.
Description / Requirements
This is an individual assignment where you will research and then produce a written Moral Dilemma Analysis report using the Ethical Decision‐Making Framework introduced in topics 3 and 4. The moral dilemma is as follows:
Is it moral to expect professional workers to work beyond the hours they are paid?
For this moral dilemma, assume a company meets its service deadlines by assuming workers will work beyond their 8 hour paid shift. The staff are well aware of this expectation and are working unpaid overtime in order to keep their jobs. You are a new manager overseeing the organisation and have just learnt of this practice becoming part of the company culture. It appears the CEO is well aware of this expectation as well.
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While the case above relates to professional staff, you may investigate the morality of this issue for any type of professional or non‐professional staff working in any industry.
Research work for the Moral Dilemma Analysis report
It is essential that you do not decide whether the above dilemma is moral or not until after you have conducted research. The report is not about your personal views about the dilemma. Instead, you will investigate and argue whether this practice is moral based only on research evidence/facts.
More specifically, the research you undertake should enable you to determine the answers to all the questions (directly or indirectly) in the Ethical Decision‐Making Framework in relation to a range of stakeholders. You will then come to your conclusion after this investigation.
The research sources you must find and cite in the body of your report will be credible academic resources (e.g. journal articles, PhD theses, conference papers, credible research studies). Identify articles in particular which report empirical research (e.g. experiments, surveys, case studies, interviews) relating to the moral dilemma (not opinions of researchers) in terms of how it might affect one or more of the following types of stakeholders (see topic 3):
The organisation selling products/services
Individual staff
The organisation’s business clients
The public
The industry / profession
You must ensure that your research and analysis of this dilemma is balanced. It is typical for people and organisations to focus on their own self‐interest (e.g. revenue, profits), and justify the impact on other stakeholders (e.g. clients, the public, staff). This is not a balanced approach. Your research and analysis should instead include all potential negative implications (based on the ethical decision‐making framework) for the various stakeholder groups. As required by the ACS Code of Professional Conduct, the most important stakeholder group is “the public”, not the organisation, not the staff, etc. The public does not necessarily benefit when organisations make a profit!
For this reason, a report focusing mainly on the organisation manufacturing the product/providing a service and/or the individual staff will not receive a good result in this assignment. You are only required to consider the stakeholder types listed above, and no other stakeholder types are required.
One academic research article to get you started is as follows, but this is more of an opinion article written by researchers. You can cite this one in your report, but no other opinion articles like this:
Is working more overtime making us happier? [electronic resource], 2012, New York : Bloomberg, 2012. < https://search‐alexanderstreet‐com.ezproxy‐ b.deakin.edu.au/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2376045?utm_source=aspres olver&utm_medium=MARC&utm_campaign=AlexanderStreet>
The research you use for your report should focus on sources discussing empirical research (e.g. experiments, case studies, surveys, etc). An example of such an article to get you started, and which you can cite, is the following:
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Tsai, M., Nitta, Mi., Kim, S. & Wang,W. 2016. ‘Working Overtime in East Asia: Convergence or Divergence?’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 46:4, pages 700-722. <https://doi-org.ezproxy- b.deakin.edu.au/10.1080/00472336.2016.1144778>
Topic 4 of this unit also highlights that it is important to consider short (1‐3 year), medium (5‐10 years) and long‐term (50+ years) impact of the moral dilemma on each of the above stakeholders. Your investigation, particularly based on research articles relating to other professions, is an indication of the positive and negative medium and/or long‐term implications for the IS industry.
The focus of your research should therefore be on quality evidence of the implications of the practice stated in the dilemma above. This means that “old” research is acceptable for this report. It is preferable to focus on both new and older quality evidence, than low quality recent evidence.
What to include in the Moral Dilemma Analysis report?
You will write an individual Moral Dilemma Analysis report as follows (after background work):
A cover page with the assignment title (“Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report”), unit code and name, your name and student ID, and the word count. This cover page is not included in the word count.
A maximum of 2,500 words for the report body, using the Ethical Decision‐Making Framework introduced in topics 3 and 4, to analyse the moral dilemma stated above.
o The report will be a convincing argument on what you conclude as the morality of the dilemma outlined above, not based on your opinion or personal views, but instead based on solid research and evidence/facts using the framework. The report will have a very short introduction, multiple sections/subsections, and conclusion. Note that in‐text citations (see next point) are included in the word count.
A reference list at least fourteen (14) high quality research sources cited in the report body in the Harvard format style using the “(Author, Year)” approach to in‐text citation. This reference list is not included in the word count.
Word limit See the rubric for word limit penalties. The word count is calculated by selecting the text of assignment (see above), and using MS Word’s word count feature and unchecking the “Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes”.
You must cite the minimum of fourteen (14) research sources (see the ‘Research work…’ section) in the body of the report. Unlike Assignment 1, you must use the “(Author, Year)” or “Author (Year)” approach to in‐text citations in this report as shown in the following Harvard formatting guidelines:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/study‐support/referencing/harvard
Further requirements for the report are as follows:
The report cannot include any quotes, images/figures or summarises from other sources. The entire report must be in your own words. In particular, review the following guidelines about paraphrasing (note that ‘summarising’ and ‘quoting’ is not permitted in this report).
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o http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/study‐ support/referencing/summarising‐paraphrasing‐quoting
You cannot use scanned tables (or images with text) and insert this in your report. All text in the body of the report, even if it is scanned, will be added to your word count. Please see rubric for details of the penalties which apply to exceeding the word count for this report.
Submission Instructions
The final submission for the Moral Dilemma Analysis report must be one (1) single file, named surname_MIS741_T1_year_assign2 (e.g. Liang_MIS741_T1_2018_assign2), including:
A cover page with the assignment title (“Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report”), unit code and name, your name and student ID, and the word count.
The Moral Dilemma Analysis report
Use the submission folder under the Assessments tab, then Assignments in CloudDeakin.
You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need to submit your backup copy. Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism. When you are required to submit an assignment through your CloudDeakin unit site, you will receive an email to your Deakin email address confirming that it has been submitted. You should check that you can see your assignment in the Submissions view of the Assignment dropbox folder after upload, and check for, and keep, the email receipt for the submission.
Notes
Penalties for late submission: The following marking penalties will apply if you submit an assessment task after the due date without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from available marks for each day up to five days, and work that is submitted more than five days after the due date will not be marked. You will receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means working day for paper submissions and calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after the due date.
For more information about academic misconduct, special consideration, extensions, and assessment feedback, please refer to the document Your rights and responsibilities as a student in this Unit in the first folder next to the Unit Guide of the Resources area in the CloudDeakin unit site.
Building evidence of your experiences, skills and knowledge (Portfolio) ‐ Building a portfolio that evidences your skills, knowledge and experience will provide you with a valuable tool to help you prepare for interviews and to showcase to potential employers. There are a number
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of tools that you can use to build a portfolio. You are provided with cloud space through OneDrive, or through the Portfolio tool in the Cloud Unit Site, but you can use any storage repository system that you like. Remember that a Portfolio is YOUR tool. You should be able to store your assessment work, reflections, achievements and artefacts in YOUR Portfolio. Once you have completed this assessment piece, add it to your personal Portfolio to use and showcase your learning later, when applying for jobs, or further studies. Curate your work by adding meaningful tags to your artefacts that describe what the artefact represents.
