PHL 323 Week 1 Personal Ethics Development Paper

Instructions

Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper on personal ethics development that examines your personal ethical system and ground rules.

• Incorporate the terms found in the University of Phoenix Material: Key Terms.
• Focus on the developmental aspect of your ethics rather than on a particular position on any issue.
• Define your underlying ethical system, its primary principles, the sources that helped shape your ethics—such as people, institutions, events, and so forth—and the criteria and decision-making factors you have used to revise them.
• Discuss the potential effect of your ethics on your performance or use of them in your workplace. Use a specific personal example.
• Explain why ethics are needed in an organization and how ethics are integrated into an organization to achieve its direction and goals. What effect does the application of these ethics have on individuals, organizations, and society?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your paper to the Plagiarism Checker. Submit it for review and provide a copy of the report to your facilitator with your assignment.

PHL 323 Week 2 Ethical Systems Table

Instructions

Complete the Ethical Systems Table.

Format references consistent with APA guidelines and include them after the table.

Ethical Systems Table

• Fill in brief definitions of each primary ethical theory.
• Identify alternate names or variations of each ethical system based on your reading of the text and supplemental materials.
• Match the real-world examples listed below with the corresponding systems. The first one has been completed for you in the table.

Real-World Examples

1. I believe people should be able to eat sand if they like the taste of it.

1. I believe that if sand is going to be eaten, it should be available for everyone to eat.

1. I believe people should be able to eat sand because it is the right thing to do.

1. I believe people should be able to eat sand because it is good for one’s health.

1. I believe people should be able to eat sand if they decide they want to, regardless of whether it is someone else’s sand.

1. I believe people should be able to eat sand if they want to because they are free to make the decision themselves.

1. I believe I will eat sand because it is the standard meal for my community.

• Develop your own workplace example that fits with each system. Present each workplace scenario in a substantial paragraph of approximately 40 words. Although the table field will expand to accommodate your workplace examples, you may list them at the end of the table; make a note in the table to see the attached examples, however, so your facilitator knows to look for scenarios below the table.

• Format references consistent with APA guidelines and include them after the table.

References

Treviño, L. K., & Nelson, K. A. (2011). Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

PHL 323 Week 2 News at 6 Paper

Instructions

Complete a 500 – 700 word paper about a current event where critical thinking was involved; the current even should have direct application to ethics in management; use resources housed on the library website such as ProQuest; use at least one reference.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

PHL 323 Week 3 Current Ethical Issue in Business Paper

Instructions

Research information on an issue that deals with business ethics from a newspaper, magazine, journal, TV, or the Internet.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze the issue and address the following:

• Clearly define the issue.
• What seems to be the basis of the issue?
• Identify ground rules that manifested the situation.
• What ethical change, deficiency, or conflict brought it about?
• Which ethical systems were at work for key individuals in the organization—managers, executives, and employees?
• How did the organizational leadership come into play? How did ethical behavior and responsibility differ between employees and management? Pay particular attention to the role of middle management and executive management in causing or resolving the issue.

Propose a plan for revising the ethical standards to resolve the issue for the company. Address how the plan affects employees and management.

• Include prescriptive and psychological approaches.
• The plan must include implementation, communication of the standards, and measurements of short- and long-term compliance.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

• Include the citation of the article for reference and attach a link to the article following the conclusion of your paper.
• Include at least two textbook references and three references from other sources with your paper.

Submit your paper to the Plagiarism checker. Submit it for review and provide a copy of the report to your facilitator with your assignment.

PHL 323 Week 3 Get Creative!

Instructions

Think outside of the box!  Identify an ethical obstacle that you have had at work.  How did it impact you the manager/employee and then put yourself in the shoes of the manager/employee.

Write a brief paper, create a powerpoint, draw a cartoon, make a vision board…. this assignment is for you to tell me a story!

– Identify the ethical obstacle

– Discuss the behavior and responsibility of the employee and manager

– What did you learn from this situation?  Did you learn something about yourself? Your manager? Your company?

PHL 323 Week 4 Evaluation of a Business Code of Ethics

Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is to assist you in refining problem-solving capabilities that organizations already possess for use in business ethics applications. This paper uses a structured, objective format sometimes called a system of inquiry. This assignment is a systematic formalized inquiry into, or examination of, the code of ethics of an organization and its effects to achieve a specific level of ethical behavior in employees, management, and executives. Each business should have a framework for ensuring ethical behavior. The structure, format, and scope of codes vary depending on the company’s business. An oil company’s code, for example, would probably have different criteria and emphases than a health care provider’s code of ethics. Sometimes, codes of ethics are called by other names, such as an employee code of conduct. A code of ethics, though, should be differentiated from standard good operating practices.

Evaluation and analysis includes problem solving and behavior in assessing organizational ethics along with decision-making processes. In this case, you are evaluating your own company’s code of ethics, or that of another company if your employer does not have a code of ethics.

Write a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper, one not using question-and-answer format, discussing your organization’s code of ethics in detail. Perform the following steps:

• Obtain a copy of your employer’s code of ethics or find an example on the Internet from a major corporation, such as Shell Oil Company’s Statement of Ethics. This is the document upon which to base your inquiry.
• Write a general information paragraph on the company, including its mission statement.
• Determine the type of ethical system used by the firm and reasons or examples upon which you based your decisions. Ethical systems include ends-driven, relativistic, entitlement, and duty-driven (legal or religious) ethics.
• Identify and discuss how the code of ethics is used. Include several paragraphs on each use: one for employees, one for management, one for the board of directors, and so forth. Some of this information comes from the company’s code of ethics. Others may be available through an Internet search. Consider the following:

  • Why it is used—the general or special circumstances
  • How it is used
  • When it is used

Note. You may not be able to find all the information. In that case, state this fact and indicate which sources were examined with no results.

• Why might the organization need to modify their existing code of ethics? Consider how you might modify the code if you were the new CEO and how you would implement the changes.
• What possible reactions to the code are to be expected from employees and managers? What effects does the organizational culture have on the acceptance of the code?
• What is the effect of the code on the organization?
• Summarize the results of your systematic analysis or inquiry into the code of ethics of this organization.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

• Prepare an introduction and use section headings identifying each of the steps with information and discussion following. Summarize your findings in the conclusion.
• Do not include paragraphs directly from your company’s code. Summarize what is contained in the document. Your paper may contain no more than 15% unoriginal or quoted material.

Submit your paper to Plagiarism Checker. Submit it for review and provide a copy of the report to your facilitator with your assignment.

PHL 323 Week 4 News at 6

Instructions

Complete a 500 – 700 word paper or  5-7 slide PowerPoint or Prezi presentation – – about a current event where poor business ethics was involved; the current event should have direct application to at least one of week 4 objectives; use resources housed on the library website such as ProQuest; use at least one reference.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

PHL 323 Week 5 Ethics in the Workplace Case Study Action Plan and Presentation

Instructions

Review the University of Phoenix Material: Preparing Case Study Analyses.

Review one of the following case studies from Managing Business Ethics as assigned by your facilitator. The case studies are found in the text near the end of the given chapter.

• Pinto Fires in Ch. 2
• Culture Change at Texaco in Ch. 5
• An Unethical Culture in Need of Change: Tap Pharmaceuticals in Ch. 5
• Improving an Ethical Culture at Georgia-Pacific in Ch. 6
• Sears, Roebuck, and Co.: The Auto Center Scandal in Ch. 7
• Merck and River Blindness in Ch. 9

Create a 15- to 18-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation—accompanied either by a 15- to 20-minute oral presentation for Local Campus students or detailed speaker notes for Online Campus students—in which you analyze the study and evaluate alternatives. Include the following:

• Determine all the facts: symptoms of problems; root problems; unresolved issues; roles of key players such as stakeholders, consumers, employees, management, shareholders, and the community; and ethical issues involved.
• What ethical system was at work?
• Analyze and evaluate alternatives.
• How would your alternatives change if you were working in a foreign country?
• What effect does globalization have on the choice of preferred alternatives?
• Decide on the most valid alternative and make recommendations.