Ethics in business case study

COURSE CODE BCO121-BCN1962 COURSE NAME ETHICS IN BUSINESS Task brief & rubrics

Task

• This is an individual task.

• The professor will provide a list of organizations for every student to choose one. It is very important that every student has a different organization.

• Students must do research about this organization and develop a case study following the questions/guide here below:

A. A brief description of the organization.

B. Mention and briefly define its objectives.

C. What are the ethical values or principles guiding the organization according to their website?

D. To what extent does the organization apply those principles or values? Use examples to support your conclusions.

• Contextual information:

o The student must make sure:

▪ That the challenges related to operating at an international level are considered in the answer. This topic is discussed in class session 2.

▪ That the evaluation whether of the extent to which the organization applies those principles is based on the theoretical frameworks and

concepts/concepts discussed from session 1 to 3.

• Expected table of contents:

o Introduction

o Body

o Conclusions

o References

• Students must upload a case study in pdf format.

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 1,500 +/-10%

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week 4 – Via Moodle (Turnitin). February the 19th, 2021 22:00 CET.

Weight: This task is a 30% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Understand the concept of sustainability and its implications and become familiar with the main approaches to business ethics and corporate social responsibility;

• Outcome 4: Understand commonly-occurring ethical issues and dilemmas in managing businesses;

• Outcome 7: Communicate in terms of responsibility and accountability.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69 Fail <60

Knowledge & Understanding (30%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of the task and basic key concepts or theories. Student uses a wide range of vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant basic concepts or theories. The student uses some vocabulary in an appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates fair understanding of the task and mentions few relevant basic concepts or theories. The student uses little vocabulary in an appropriate manner. Some of the vocabulary might be used inaccurately.

Student demonstrates marginally inadequate understanding of the task and does not mention key basic concepts or theories. The student uses very little amount of relevant vocabulary or uses it in an entirely inadequate manner.

Student fails to demonstrate an understanding of the task and does not mention any basic key concepts or theories.

Evaluation (30%)

Student makes an excellent evaluation of the organization’s ethical performance. Provides excellent conceptual (concepts or theories) and factual (examples or data) grounds for said evaluation.

Student makes a good evaluation of the organization’s ethical performance and considers different approaches to ethics. Provides some conceptual (concepts or theories) or factual (examples or data) grounds for said evaluation.

Student makes a fair evaluation of the organization’s ethical performance. Provides little conceptual (concepts or theories) or factual (examples or data) grounds for said evaluation.

Student makes little attempt to evaluate the organization’s ethical performance. There is very little or no consideration of different approaches.

Student makes no appreciable attempt to evaluate the organization’s ethical performance.

Communication (10%)

The student communicates the results of their work very accurately and reliably, and with very well structured and coherent arguments, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck. The student makes excellent use of Harvard citation style at all times.

The student communicates the results of their study/work with some accuracy and reliability, and with structured and coherent arguments and respecting word count. There may be very few grammar and spellcheck errors. The student uses Harvard citation style most of the time and with very few errors.

The student communicates the results of their study/work with some accuracy and reliability. The arguments may lack some structure and coherence. The work falls below or above the word count by 20%. There are some grammar and spellcheck errors. The student attempts to cite and reference their work but does not use Harvard style.

The student communicates the results of their work with very little accuracy and reliability. The arguments lack structure and coherence. The work falls below or above the word count by 20% to 30%. There are several grammar and spellcheck errors. The students presents sources but there is no attempt to cite or reference them.

The student communicates the results of their work with no accuracy nor reliability. The arguments entirely lack structure and coherence. The work falls below or above the word count by more than 30%. There are many grammar and spellcheck errors that make it very difficult to read the work. The student does not present sources.