Assignment 1 Business Ethics and Organization Social Responsibility (MGT 422)
The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder. • Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted. • Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page. • Students must mention question number clearly in their answer. • Late submission will NOT be accepted. • Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions. • All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism). • Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted. Learning Outcomes: No Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) CLO-4 Illustrate the role of social responsibility in the functional areas and strategic processes of business and a comprehensive framework for analyzing and resolving ethical issues and dilemmas in an organization. CLO-6 Write coherent project about a case study or an actual research about ethics Read the case given and answer the questions: Case Study An Ethical Dilemma Carla knew something was wrong when Jack got back to his desk. He had been with Aker & Aker Accounting (A&A) for 17 years, starting there right after graduation and progressing through the ranks. Jack was a strong supporter of the company, and that was why Carla had been assigned to him. Carla had been with A&A for two years. She had graduated in the top 10 percent of her class and passed the CPA exam on the first try. She had chosen A&A over one of the ‘Big Four’ firms because A&A was the biggest and best fi rm in Smallville, Ohio, where her husband, Frank, managed a locally owned machine tools company. She and Frank had just purchased a new home when things started to turn strange with Jack, her boss. ‘What’s the matter, Jack?’ Carla asked. ‘Well, you’ll hear about it sooner or later. I’ve been denied a partner’s position. Can you imagine that? I have been working 60- and 70-hour weeks for the last 10 years, and all that management can say to me is ‘not at this time,” complained Jack. Carla asked, ‘So what else did they say?’ Jack turned red and blurted out, ‘They said maybe in a few more years. I’ve done all that they’ve asked me to do. I’ve sacrificed a lot, and now they say a few more years. It’s not fair.’ ‘What are you going to do?’ Carla asked. ‘I don’t know,’ Jack said. ‘I just don’t know.’ Six months later, Carla noticed that Jack was behaving oddly. He came in late and left early. One Sunday Carla went into the office for some fi les and found Jack copying some of the software that A&A used in auditing and consulting. A couple of weeks later, at a dinner party, Carla overheard a conversation about Jack doing consulting work for some small fi rms. Monday morning, she asked him if what she had heard was true. Jack responded, ‘Yes, Carla, it’s true. I have a few clients that I do work for on occasion.’ ‘Don’t you think there’s a conflict of interest between you and A&A?’ asked Carla. ‘No,’ said Jack. ‘You see, these clients are not technically within the market area of A&A. Besides, I was counting on that promotion to help pay some extra bills. My oldest son decided to go to a private university, which is an extra $25,000 each year. Plus our medical plan at A&A doesn’t cover some of my medical problems. And you don’t want to know the cost. The only way I can afford to pay for these things is to do some extra work on the side.’ ‘But what if A&A finds out?’ Carla asked. ‘Won’t they terminate you?’ ‘I don’t want to think about that. Besides, if they don’t find out for another six months, I may be able to start my own company.’ ‘How?’ asked Carla. ‘Don’t be naive, Carla. You came in that Sunday. You know.’ Carla realized that Jack had been using A&A software for his own gain. ‘That’s stealing!’ she said. ‘Stealing?’ Jack’s voice grew calm. ‘Like when you use the office phones for personal long-distance calls? Like when you decided to volunteer to help out your church and copied all those things for them on the company machine? If I’m stealing, you’re a thief as well. But let’s not get into this discussion. I’m not hurting A&A and, who knows, maybe within the next year I’ll become a partner and can quit my night job.’ Carla backed off from the discussion and said nothing more. She couldn’t afford to antagonize her boss and risk bad performance ratings. She and Frank had bills, too. She also knew that she wouldn’t be able to get another job at the same pay if she quit. Moving to another town was not an option because of Frank’s business. She had no physical evidence to take to the partners, which meant that it would be her word against Jack’s, and he had 17 years of experience with the company. Question(s): 1. Identify the ethical issues in this case. (600 words)- 5 Marks 2. Assume you are Carla. Discuss your options and what the consequences of each option might be. (Minimum 2 options & 2 consequences, 400 words)- 3 Marks 3. Assume you are Jack. Discuss your options. (At least 2 options, 300 words)-2 Marks Rubrics for grading: Q. No Criteria/ achievement Good mark levels Student should explain the ethical issues in this case. 600 words. 1. 2 3 Students should point out the options from Carla’s point and discuss the consequences of each option might be. 400 words. Average Mark Low Mark Good and clear explanation of the ethical issue is discussed with proper references. Good and clear explanation of the ethical issue is discussed without proper references. Student does not examine the ethical issues related to the case. Marks: 5 Marks: 2.5 Options are clearly explained along with the consequences for each option with proper references Student explains only one Option with consequence or only two options without the consequences and no references are provided. Marks: 3 Marks: 1.5 Students should point Options are well out the options from explained from Jack’s point of view. Jack’s point of 300 words. view with proper references. Options are provided but not clearly explained and no references are provided. Marks: 2 Marks: 0 Options and consequences are not clear, and the explanation is incomplete. Marks: 0 No options are given. Marks: 0 Marks: 1 Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 3 Questions Tags: ethical issues ethical dilemma business management User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.