business ethics

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Business Ethics and Organization Social Responsibility

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MGT 422 - Assignment 1

After completion of Assignment-1 students will able to understand the following

LO-3: Describe a comprehensive framework for analyzing and resolving ethical issues and dilemmas in an organization

LO-8: The capacity to write coherent project about a case study or an actual research about ethics

Identify any one organization inside Saudi Arabia and find out the reasons why that organization would be interested in being ethical and classify those reasons in terms of whether they represent moral motivation or economic motivation.

Regarding Economic Motives the key areas to discuss should include

· Ability to attract employees

· Better public image

· Industry pressure

· Sentencing guidelines

Regarding Moral Motives the key areas to discuss should include

· The fair and right thing to do

· Consistent with values of the organization

Useful links:

· http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf

· APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa

· About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

· About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Guidelines for the assignment:

· This is an individual assignment, which is part from your course score. It requires effort and critical thinking.

· Use font Times New Roman.

· Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs.

· Use the footer function to insert page number.

· Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.

· Your project report length should be between 800 to 1000 words.

· 5 Marks for the Assignment -1.