Ethical Issues in the 21st Century
DQ1 Ethical Issues in the 21st Century
Gonzalez-Padron (2015) addressed several ethical issues that have arisen in the 21st century. Choose a scholarly or credible article relating to a 21st century ethical issue. The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Describe how the ethical dilemma can affect both the organization and society.
Evaluate changes could have been made to prevent this ethical dilemma.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. For your response, take on the role of an organizational leader, based on the evaluations from your classmate, give advice on additional suggested for changes to prevent the ethical dilemma.
Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.
DQ2 Considering Managerial Ethics in the Workplace
Before starting your discussion, read the Forbes article How to make an ethical difference in your business (Links to an external site.). In the article, Zwilling (2013) stated,
Many people seem to have the sense that ethics are spiraling downward in business, yet most business professionals and entrepreneurs I know don’t believe they can make a difference. They don’t realize that if they don’t take an active role in the solution, they really become part of the problem. (para. 1
Review the five solutions to ethical problems described by Zwilling. Select one of the five solutions. Put yourself into the role of leader and evaluate how your chosen solution could be applied to an organizational ethical dilemma.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. Review your classmates’ solutions. In your response, share additional ideas that could make the solution more viable for the organization.
Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.
OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 Ethics versus Compliance
Before beginning your discussion, read the article Ethics vs. compliance: Do we really need to talk about both? Organizations often use the terms ethics and compliance interchangeably. However, there are some nuances that are different between compliance and ethics. After reading the article, compare and contrast the similarities and differences between compliance and ethics. Evaluate whether a compliance officer or an ethics officer would be a better fit in your current organization (or in an organization with which you are familiar).
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. For your response, take on the role of the organization’s leader and evaluate your classmate’s choice of ethics or compliance from a leadership viewpoint.
Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.
DQ2 Ethics, Compliance, and Training
Read chapter four in the textbook and Ethics, reputation, and compliance gain as corporate priorities (Links to an external site.). In the article, Hagel (2015) stated
The demand for greater transparency from consumers and stakeholders across the world has pushed the areas of ethics and compliance up the corporate list of priorities in recent years. In addition, the risk to reputation and potential damage that can be done if evidence of unethical practice is discovered have increased significantly with the advent of social media. (para. 2)
Based on the importance of transparency, your organization (you can represent any organization, McDonalds, Starbucks, ESPN, etc.) has asked you to create a training presentation on ethics and compliance to be presented next week. Referencing the Hagel article, the Gonzales-Padron textbook, and at least two other journal articles, present an outline for your training as a response to this thread.
Create an outline describing the information that you would include in your training presentation.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 The Ethical Trap
Prior to beginning your discussion response, read The ethical trap (Links to an external site.). Discuss an ethical dilemma that you are aware of in an organization. Describe how the ethical dilemma was an ethical trap. Evaluate how the ethical dilemma and the ethical trap could have been avoided.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. When responding to your classmates, offer additional suggestions that could help to avoid either the ethical dilemma or the associated ethical trap.
Your responses must be a minimum of 150 words.
DQ2 The Role of Leadership Integrity in Organizational Ethics
Prior to beginning your discussion response, read Managing for Organizational Integrity (Links to an external site.). In the article, Paine (1994) described scenarios of various organizations. Choose one of the ethics topics: integrity as a governing ethic, emphasizing core values, building shared aspirations, or defining right action.
Summarize the information shared in the article for your chosen topic.
Describe how the ethics topic could be incorporated into your organization or an organization that you are familiar with.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion. When responding to your classmate, offer at least one suggestion of additional method(s) of incorporating their chosen ethical topic into the organization.
Your response must be a minimum of 150 words.
OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Ethical Leadership
Read the An improved measure of ethical leadership article by Yukl, Mahsud, Hassan, & Prussia (2013), as well as Chapter 7 of Gonzalez-Padron (2015). Complete the Checklist: Ethical Leadership Questionnaire, then answer these following questions from the text:
Describe the behaviors that are most important for you to feel trust in the ethical leadership of a supervisor, manager, or company executive?
Describe any descriptors in the list that are difficult to observe?
Analyze how ethical leadership can be measured in an organization?
Evaluate how personal experience with a leader (e.g., work assignments, disciplinary actions) skew your assessment of his or her ethical leadership? Cite an example based on personal experience.
Your response must be a mimimum of 300 words.
DQ2 Recognizing and Identifying Ethical Leadership Failures
Prior to beginning your discussion, read Understanding (and preventing) ethical leadership failures (Links to an external site.). After reading the article, give an example of one or more leadership failures that you are familiar with. You may use an organization, group, or political figure for your discussion. Describe the failure(s) in detail. Analyze how the failure(s) could have been mitigated.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code?
Read Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code? in Chapter 9, then answer these following questions from the text:
Describe how the title of a company’s ethics document affects your attitude about the content?. Do you find one title more attractive than another?
Describe the message that the title “code of conduct” conveys?. Does it reflect the purpose of the document to provide employee guidance on expected conduct?
Propose creative titles for ethics codes for a pharmaceutical company and a restaurant. (Gonzalez-Padron, 2015).
Identify two other company ethics documents and share the titles of their ethics documents (consider your own organization or one that you are familiar with for this question).
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
DQ2 Code of Conduct in Medical Tourism
Medical Tourism has become a growing industry, especially in developing countries. Research the topic of medical tourism, and find a scholarly or credible article for your topic. Develop a code of conduct for medical tourism. Your code of conduct must include
Organizational values
Guidelines for acceptable behavior
Compliance with legislation
Examples of prohibited acts
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Use at least one scholarly or credible source.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Week 6 Discussion
DQ1 Future Ethical Considerations
As the world continues to become more global because of technological advances, the risks will increase. Choose one of the global risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological. Then choose a specific issue related to the global risk area.
Describe the ethical issue.
Evaluate how the risk could best be mitigated.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Use at least one scholarly or credible source.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
DQ2 Global Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
A common debate in ethics is universalism versus relativism of ethics and moral codes. A frequently asked question is “Does a universal moral code exist regardless of an individual’s culture?” As organizations are becoming increasingly global, and understanding of universalism versus relativism of culture ethics is important.
Compare and contrast universalism and relativism.
Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social corporate responsibility.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Please use at least one scholarly or credible source in your discussion.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesPreview the document table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
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