About this Assignment
It is easy to read about a situation in a textbook and play ”Monday Morning Quarterback” to critique a manager’s approach to a business dilemma. It is much more difficult to be an ethical manager when a situation unfolds on-the-fly. Good managers will review their actions later and actively consider if a different approach might have resulted in a better outcome.
In this assignment, you will summarize an actual real-world ethical decision that a manager had to make during their career. You will also analyze the decision, assess the response, and suggest an alternative course of action.
Prompt
The student will interview a local business manager, in person. During the interview, the student will uncover an ethical decision situation the manager has faced during their career, and how the manager resolved it along with the manager’s rationale for the actions that were taken.
In a document of 1500 words, the student will:
Summarize the manager’s ethical dilemma and how the manager handled/resolved it
Identify the ethical standard that the manager used to solve the dilemma
Identify an alternative ethical standard that the manager could have used, and how the outcome would have differed
Formatting & Sources
Please write your paper in the APA format. You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use three sources and cite them using APA format. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal . If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).
Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.
Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics. You may use sources like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Researchgate to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)
