MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture COMPLETE COURSE

DISCUSSION QUESTION 2-1

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Lesson 2: Corporate Culture and Ethics

 

Discussion Question 1 (50 points)

 

Part A              What is corporate culture? How does it shape an employee?

Part B              In addition to attitudes and behaviors, list and describe three (3) other determinants of culture within an organization. (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

 

 

DISCUSSION QUESTION 2-2

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Lesson 2: Corporate Culture and Ethics

 

 

Discussion Question 2 (50 points)

 

Part A              Describe how a values-based culture works.

Part B              Explain the reasoning behind the popularity of the values-based culture. (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

 

 

DISCUSSION QUESTION 4-1

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Lesson 4: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights

 

Discussion Question 1 (50 points)

 

You have been asked to give a presentation to an Introduction to Business class on affirmative action.  Write a defense of affirmative action.  Your paper should discuss a total of five (5) issues in defense of the concept.  (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

 

Lesson 4: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights

 

Discussion Question 2 (50 points)

 

Part A              Summarize the influences of diversity within a workplace.

 

Part B              What are the different ways in which women experience discrimination at the workplace? (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

 

Lesson 6: Environmental Sustainability

 

Discussion Question 1 (50 points)

 

Explain the concepts of eco-efficiency, biomimicry, and cradle-to-cradle responsibility. (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

 

Lesson 6: Environmental Sustainability

 

Discussion Question 2 (50 points)

 

Briefly describe five (5) reasons supporting the practice of sustainability within businesses. (50 points) (A 2-page response is required.)

ACTIVITY 1

 

Lesson 1: Roadmap for the Journey

 

 

Activity 1: Ethical Theories (100 points)

 

Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself.  If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.  In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style.  (100 points) (A 4-page response is required for the combination of Parts A and B). 

 

Part A         Utilitarianism and Kantian ethics

 

1.      Compare and contrast the ethical theories of Utilitarianism and Kantian ethics. Address fifteen (15) issues in your discussion. 

 

2.      In your opinion, which ethical theory has more merit for business decisions?  Defend your choice by stating two (2) reasons for your opinion. 

 

 

Part B        Principle-based, virtue, and morality theories have all impacted ethical decision making in the past decade.  Respond to each of the following questions referring to these theories. 

1.      Compare and contrast each of the three (3) theories.

 

2.      What influences do you see each of these three (3) theories having on business ethics?

 

3.      Which one (1) of these theories do you think will be most important in the next five years?  Defend your answer with at least one (1) reason and one (1) example.

 

 

ACTIVITY 3

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Lesson 3: Corporate Social Responsibility

 

Activity 3: Stakeholder Management (100 points)

 

Read:

1.      Loi, T. H. (2016). Stakeholder management: A case of its related capability and performance. Management Decision, 54(1), 148-173. Retrieved from https://ashworth.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ashworth.idm.oclc.org/docview/1759323191?accountid=45844

 

2.      Chhillar, P., & Lellapalli, R. V. (2015). Divergence or convergence: Paradoxes in corporate governance? Corporate Governance, 15(5), 693-705. Retrieved from https://ashworth.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ashworth.idm.oclc.org/docview/1716904070?accountid=45844

 

Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself.  If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.  In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style.  (100 points) (A 4-page response is required for the combination of Parts A and B). 

 

Part A        Stakeholder theory

 

1.      Explain stakeholder theory.

2.      Outline two forms of stakeholder management.

3.      Where does stakeholder theory go wrong?

 

Part B        Stockholder Theory

1.      Explain the stockholder model of corporate governance.

2.      How and why do shareholders govern corporations?

3.      Are stakeholder interests protected by the shareholder model of management? Explain and fully support your position.

 

 

Reference ACTIVITY 5

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Lesson 5: Ethical Issues in Marketing and Technology

 

Activity 5: Privacy (100 points)

 

The Right to Privacy is central to ethical issues in information technology and the Internet.  Address the following issues concerning this concept.  (100 points) (A 4-page response is required.)

1. Discuss two (2) organizational viewpoints and two (2) personal viewpoints related to the issues of privacy and the exchange of information. 

 

2. Discuss Patricia Werhane's concept of reciprocal obligation, as it applies to the workplace.

 

3. Discuss the Kantian viewpoint of privacy. Which issue specifically is key to a Kantian viewpoint?  Explain.

 

4. How do privacy issues at the workplace raise ethical issues involving individual rights as well as those involving utilitarian consequences?

 

Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself.  If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.  In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document them in a bibliography using APA style.  (100 points) (A 4-page response is required.)

 

 

STAND-ALONE PROJECT

MB651 Ethical Decision Making and Business Culture

 

Stand-Alone Project: Ethics for an Outer-Space

Corporation (200 points)

 

 

You should begin working on the Stand-Alone Project early in the course.  Each assignment provides a benchmark for completing the Stand-Alone Project in a timely manner while working through the course.  You will find this information in the "Stand-Alone Project Benchmark" section of each assignment.

 

Instructions:  This project places you in the scenario where you have been working for Advanced Data Transmission, Inc., for several years as the chief human resources officer.  As such, you have given direction for the company in terms of its treatment of workers, diversity issues, and risk issues, and have provided consultation to other senior-level managers in dealing with ethical and moral issues within the company. 

 

Advanced Data Transmission, Inc. has just announced that it has been granted the contract to open and operate the first outer-space corporation that will include a small village atmosphere.  Workers and managers will reside in the space village for a minimum of six months before returning to Earth.  A shuttle service for dignitaries and customers from all over the world will be provided.  Your company will manage all satellite data transmissions to all countries. The new company will be home-based in the U.S., and third-world countries will host subsidiaries. 

 

Develop a "Global Business Ethics Manual" that addresses the following.

 

1.      Your chosen basic normative ethical foundation theory and reasons for choosing it.

 

2.      Your design for the corporation:  stockholder, stakeholder, or another option?

 

3.      The defined risks for all participants: workers, investors, customers, etc.

 

4.      Your human resource guidelines for the ethical treatment of workers, including but not limited to screening, diversity and discrimination, harassment, and affirmative action/goals/quotas.

 

5.      The marketing guidelines for ethical advertising and sales.

 

6.      Technology ethics in monitoring data transmissions.

 

7.      How to conduct inter-global business with all the countries of the world (address both social and economic justice).

 

It should be clear that this is completely new territory, and is not bound by earthly international business ethics.  You have a clean slate and can influence all outer-space business for the twenty-second century.  You have the right to change and modify any and all issues you feel have wronged workers on Earth.  However, you must defend your positions. 

 

You are encouraged to think beyond the ethical decisions of today, and to anticipate future issues and how to address them.  Use your imagination and your learning from this course and take a shot at charting the ethical course for an area that I believe will one day come to pass.

 

Your project must include a minimum of five (5) sources of relevant information.

 

Your Stand-Alone Project responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the project itself.  If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.   In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style.  (A 10-page response is required.)  (200 points)