Excelsior BUS323 Module 4 Assignment Latest 2021 April

BUS323 Business Ethics

Module 4 Assignment   

Final Project Annotated Bibliography

Ethical Issues in the

Workplace

Recognition, Analysis, and

Resolution

One of the most beneficial exercises in a course exploring ethics is to develop a paper that allows you the opportunity to create connections between your professional view of ethics and applied ethical theories. The nature of ethical decision making is recognition, analysis, and resolution.

Your paper must explore a current ethical issue in your workplace. It can be a current or former employer, or someplace where you have volunteered.  Ideally, the issue that you explore is something related to your current or future career.

A few ideas for your consideration:

~ You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your workplace responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness.  How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

~ Your co-worker has been consistently late for the past month unbeknownst to the supervisor. Reporting such behavior could mean that your co-worker is dismissed, or put on a performance improvement plan.  Yet, the co-worker is dealing with a personal tragedy because her 5-year-old son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Do you report?

~ You take a new hire on a sales call and meet with an executive at company X, your most important client. While your back is turned to grab something out of your briefcase, the executive fondles the back side of your new employee. What do you do to protect the employee yet preserve the relationship with the client?

This final paper is your opportunity to delve into a topic within the framework of ethics that you find interesting based on your approved topic and thesis statement.

Building on your paper topic selection from Module 2, in this assignment you will be creating and submitting an annotated bibliography. First time creating an annotated bibliography?  No worries!  The Excelsior Owl (Links to an external site.) has guidance, an example to view, and tips for success. For maximum points be sure to include:

At least 5 different references listed in the annotated bibliography; feel free to have more than 5 sources!

Cite at least 2 of the sources used in this course. Your references may include academic and trade journals, but should not include unverified, non-credible sources such as blogs.

Your annotation for each reference must include:

A brief summary of the information in that source.

A brief evaluation of the quality of the source’s information.

A brief evaluation of whether the source is useful for the purpose of the research.