Overview
Project Overview:
You are working for Luxor Incorporated, a midsize organization that offers professional services like corporate training, accounting, and engineering to businesses of various sizes. Recently, the company has been facing issues like layoffs, budget cuts, low morale, and unethical behavior such as overbilling clients and misuse of sick days.
To help improve the company’s ethics, a new President has been hired, and you are part of a new committee (the Committee for Dynamic Success) tasked with assisting the President in restoring ethical practices and improving employee morale.
The Project Goal:
You’ll conduct research on current ethical issues in businesses, identify common ethical issues, and provide recommendations for addressing them in your organization. You will then present your findings and recommendations in various parts of the project.
Part 1: Current Ethical Issues (What You Need to Do)
For Part 1, you need to research and write a paper about 5 common ethical issues that businesses face. Here’s the step-by-step breakdown:
1. Research 5 Common Ethical Issues
You need to find 5 common unethical issues that businesses often face. These could be issues like:
- Overbilling clients
- Misuse of sick days
- Favoritism or nepotism
- Insider trading
- Discrimination or harassment in the workplace
For each issue, you need to explain the following:
2. Address the Following for Each of the 5 Issues:
- Identify the issue:
- State the unethical behavior clearly (e.g., overbilling clients, misuse of sick days, etc.).
- State the unethical behavior clearly (e.g., overbilling clients, misuse of sick days, etc.).
- Define the issue:
- Describe how this issue occurs (e.g., overbilling happens when employees charge clients for hours that were not worked).
- Who typically commits the unethical behavior? (e.g., employees, managers, executives).
- Where does it usually occur? (e.g., in certain departments or industries, like accounting or consulting).
- Describe how this issue occurs (e.g., overbilling happens when employees charge clients for hours that were not worked).
- Impact on the business, employees, and stakeholders:
- Explain how the issue affects the organization (e.g., damages reputation, causes legal trouble, etc.).
- Discuss the negative effects on employees (e.g., low morale, loss of trust) and stakeholders (e.g., investors, customers).
- Explain how the issue affects the organization (e.g., damages reputation, causes legal trouble, etc.).
- Recommendations:
- Provide actionable steps to resolve the unethical conduct (e.g., implement stronger oversight, establish training programs, enforce clear policies).
- Provide actionable steps to resolve the unethical conduct (e.g., implement stronger oversight, establish training programs, enforce clear policies).
3. Formatting the Paper:
- Title Page: This should follow APA format and include the title of your paper, your name, and any other required information.
- Paper Body (2-3 pages):
- Discuss each of the five ethical issues and their resolutions in detail.
- Be sure to include APA in-text citations when referring to any sources you find during your research.
- Discuss each of the five ethical issues and their resolutions in detail.
- References Page:
- List all the sources you used for your research, formatted according to APA style.
- Your references should include books, articles, or credible online sources that support your claims about each unethical issue.
- List all the sources you used for your research, formatted according to APA style.
4. General Notes:
- Research: Be sure to use reputable sources to define and explain each ethical issue. These can include business ethics textbooks, articles, or case studies from credible sources.
- APA Style: Use APA for citing your sources (both in-text and in your reference list).
- Clarity: Make your paper easy to follow, with clear explanations for each issue and its resolution.
Final Deliverable for Part 1:
- 2-3 page paper (excluding the title and reference pages).
- Title Page and Reference Page (formatted in APA).
- 5 ethical issues researched, defined, explained, and resolved with recommendations.
Tips for Success:
- Stay focused on real-world issues: Make sure to choose relevant and common ethical issues that companies face today.
- Be detailed in the definitions: Provide clear explanations of how the issues occur, who is typically involved, and where they happen.
- Make practical recommendations: Your recommendations should be actionable and realistic for companies to implement.
- Use credible sources: Cite articles, books, or other reliable sources to back up your information.
This project is designed to help you understand how to research, analyze, and suggest ethical solutions in a business context. If you need help with the research, citations, or any part of the assignment, feel free to ask!
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Project Overview
Luxor Incorporated, a midsize organization that was founded over 50 years ago, provides a variety of professional services, from corporate training, accounting, and engineering, to other organizations ranging from small businesses to large-scale, multinational corporations. Until recent years it enjoyed a rather favorable reputation both inside and outside of the organization. Due to the slower than anticipated recovery for the industry due to the economic downturn, there have been companywide layoffs and budget cuts. These actions led to morale issues and instances of unethical behavior amongst the employees across the organization. These issues include minor infractions such as misuse of sick days but are escalating to departments padding their billing and embellishing their timesheets in essence overbilling their clients.
In response to the decline of the organization, a new President was brought on board to steer the company in a more ethical and profitable direction. In the upcoming weeks, as an employee of Luxor Incorporated and a member of the newly formed Committee for Dynamic Success, you will be tasked with different assignments to assist the new president in achieving an ethical workplace with an increase in morale.
Due Date
Your final project is due in Module 08. There will be individual assignments along the way. The module they are due is noted in the timeline below.
Timeline
Module Assignment
- 02 Introduction
- 02 Part 1: Current Ethical Issues
- 03 Part 2: Resolving Conflict
- 04 Part 3: Code of Ethics
- 08 Final Deliverable - Ethics Training Presentation
Requirements
The final deliverable for this project will be a PowerPoint presentation focused on basic ethics training that will be applicable to the employees of Luxor Incorporated. Your presentation should be a minimum of 12 slides, including a title slide as well as a References slide containing APA citations for the information that you used throughout the presentation. You will need to include research in the body of the presentation by using in-text citations.
Feel free to be as creative as you want. Use photos, charts, or even embed videos, just make sure that you are clearly conveying your message on your slides, and that you cite your sources (including multimedia) according to APA style.
Rasmussen's Library and Learning Services team has developed a variety of Guides to help support students' academic endeavors. For this project, the Writing Guide (PowerPoints section) and APA Guide may both be helpful. You will find links to these Guides on the Resources tab.
Evaluation
Each assignment leading up to the final assignment is evaluated and graded independently. Your instructor will provide specific grading criteria for each step of the project prior to its due date.
Your just doing part 1 of the assignmnet that’s what’s due sunday heres the instructions:
The issues plaguing Luxor are not unique; many other organizations are facing similar unethical misconduct. For this part of the project, your committee conducts a fact-finding mission to research current ethical issues faced by other organizations.
Conduct research to find 5 common, unethical conduct issues related to businesses, then in a 2-3 page paper, address the following for each of the 5 issues:
- Identify the issue (remember that you will need 5).
- Define the issue, including how it occurs, who the usual perpetrators are, and where it typically occurs.
- How does the issue affect the business, employees, stakeholders, etc.?
- What recommendations would you make to resolve the unethical conduct?
You will need to include a title page, proper APA in-text citations, and a reference page for the sources of your research. The title page and reference page do not count towards the page count.
The College of DuPage Library team has developed a variety of Guides to support students' academic endeavors. For this project, the Writing Guide (Writing Center) and APA Guide (APA Guide) may both be helpful. You will find links to these Guides on the Resources tab. (LibGuides)
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