CAP-485: W3 Personal vs. Professional Ethics

 CAP-485 Integrated Capstone
Week 3 – Personal vs. Professional Ethics

Two Parts to this assignment:

Part I:

Answer the DQ’s in 50 words or more (be specific):

Are personal and professional ethics the same? Can they be different without internal conflict? Explain your answer.

Part II:

Assignment Detail:

• Identify and research a company recently in the news which has faced one of the topics listed below:
(Include the link for the news article)
o Accounting and business reporting
o Cultural diversity (Howard Gardner article)
o Information security
o Culture and ethics of a company
o Company–client confidently
o Advertising of products
o Privacy and monitoring issues

• Write a paper of 800 words on the company and topic chosen in terms of both the personal and professional ethical issues that existed.

• Include the following in your paper:
o A description of the ethical issue faced by the company
o Effects of the issue on both the personal and professional ethics of company employees
o Evident resolution strategies that the company used to address the ethical issue. If they did not seek to resolve the issue, what strategies could they have used?
o Recommendations on changes that you would propose in order to minimize the identified ethical dilemmas

• Format your paper using APA formatting

• Include a minimum of two scholarly sources