Unit 7 assignment

Instructions

This assignment provides you with an opportunity to summarize ethics in financial responsibilities and to evaluate ethical considerations of executive compensation by writing a persuasive assignment. In your assignment, take a position on the following topics, and support it with evidence. Evidence can be facts, statistics, and quotes from scholarly articles, reliable news sources, or even anecdotal examples from personal experience. You may use any of the readings from this course, or you may find new ones to support your position. At least two pieces of evidence should be used (one for each topic).

  1. Do you think executive compensation in its various parts (i.e., salary, stock options, severance packages) funded at the current level is unethical? If so, how would you revise the compensation so that it was just? On what basis would you change it? Does the government have a role to play? If so, in what manner?
  2. Is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act too strict, not strict enough, or just right? Explain.

Your assignment should be at least 500 words in length, double-spaced, and written in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Use APA Style to format your citations. 

personal mastery plan

  Prepare a visual presentation that updates your personal mastery plan by describing the impact the practice identified in your week 3 paper had on your purpose and vision, and discussing your plans to enhance personal mastery going forward.   The presentation may be told as a story in a PowerPoint (5 slides maximum), video such as YouTube (5 minutes maximum), vision board, and/or diagram.  Post your Personal Mastery Update by Thursday of Week 8 in the designated discussion board forum.  

Unit 8 reflection

Instructions

This assignment provides you with an opportunity to think critically about business ethics, business relationships, leadership, and how each contributes to an organization’s overall culture. Write a 500-word reflection assignment by addressing each of the following items:

  • How does ethics impact business relationships within an organization?
  • How can leaders and their leadership styles impact the ethical practices within an organization?
  • How does ethics impact an organization’s overall culture?
  • Based on what you have learned in this course, how would you describe your approach to business ethics (i.e., What are your principles? What is your guide?)?
  • Conclude with a reflection on how the insights you gained from this course might affect the way you view your actions and thoughts in the future.

Your assignment should be at least 500 words in length, double-spaced, and written in Times New Roman, 12-point font. You will not need a title page or a reference page, as this paper is all about your thoughts. 

Unit 7 assessment questions all

 QUESTION 1

  1. How can firms ensure that their code of business ethics is read, understood, believed, remembered, and acted on rather than ignored? Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

QUESTION 2

  1. Discuss bribery. Would actions, such as politicians adding earmarks in legislation or pharmaceutical salespersons giving away drugs to physicians, constitute bribery? Identify three business activities that would constitute bribery and three actions that would not. Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

QUESTION 3

  1. Why should firms formulate and implement strategies from an environmental perspective? Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

QUESTION 4

  1. Why is it important not to view the concept of “whistleblowing” as “tattling” or “ratting” on another employee? Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

 

QUESTION 5

  1. What do you feel is the relationship between personal ethics and business ethics? Are they or should they be the same?
    Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Unit 8 Project

Instructions

Implementation Plan: Part 3

For the final assignment of this course, you will continue your work with the company you used in Unit IV and Unit VI. For the Unit VIII Project, you will complete the final components of your implementation plan. For Part 3, you will focus on the following points:

  • internal and external issues,
  • competition,
  • future outlook for the organization, and
  • implementation of tools for measuring business success.

Much of the information you will need to complete this segment can be found in the case study in the textbook. However, you will also need to conduct some outside research. For the future of the organization, you may be creative and add your own insight on where you see the company going. You will need to reference your textbook and at least one outside source for this assignment. You are encouraged to utilize the CSU Online Library, but you may also use external sources, as long as the source is reliable. Your project must be a minimum of three full pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Make certain to include an introductory paragraph. 

Unit 8 Journal

Instructions

Identify a strategic management skill that you learned or acquired in this course and explain how you would apply it to improve success in your career in a real-world scenario. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.