Purpose
Understanding and articulating how dilemmas and risks influence the decision-making process, including the impact of uncertainty, ethical considerations, and potential negative outcomes on the choices made by individuals and organizations. This assignment aims to explore the relationship between risk, ethical decision-making, and code of conduct within a real-life business scenario.
To achieve this, you will research a topic that interests you related to risk, ethical decision-making, or the code of conduct and then apply that research to a case study. You will gain a deeper understanding of the critical role that risk, ethical decision-making, and code of conduct play in shaping business decisions and enhance your ability to make informed, ethical choices in complex business environments through creating a presentation about the knowledge you have acquired.
Tasks
- Research one of the topics discussed in this unit: Risk, Ethical Decision-Making, Code of Conduct
Have your research focus on:
- What constitutes ethical decision-making?
- What will be impacted if risk and bias are overlooked?
- Who are the stakeholders impacted (consider employees, customers, and/or legal ramifications)?
- What is needed to avert risk in the decision-making process?
- Review Case Study: My Wife’s Sister’s Sister’s Son: The Ethics of Nepotism in the Workplace As you review the case study, answer the following questions:
- What are the key ethical questions raised?
- What ethical principles apply in this case?
- What is your solution to the ethical dilemma?
- What ethical leadership lessons have you learned?
- After reviewing the case study and answering the questions, reflect upon the following:
- Consider an organizational dilemma
- Predict ways that risk and bias occur with the dilemma
- Discuss the ways risks and bias can impact the organization
- Explain how to mitigate such risk and bias within the organization
- Discuss how mitigation of risk and bias can impact the organization
- Using Tasks 1, 2, and 3, create a video or a narrated PowerPoint presentation to share with the leadership committee or the organization. The presentation must include the following:
- A visual that will provide the leadership committee with a summary of your analysis from Task 1.
- Your recommendations in light of the questions you answered to address the case study in Task 2.
- An evaluation of how to mitigate risks and bias, and ways to mitigate such risks within the organization, pertaining to Task 3.
- After completing your Risk, Ethical Decision-Making, and Code of Conduct Assignment, save it as an upload to a shared drive and submit the URL for the assignment.
- Ensure that your assignment submission is supported by course materials, with both in-text citation(s) and end-text reference(s) for all sources used.
- Review the following sources:
- What is PowerPoint?
- Introduction to PowerPoint