Description
Business Ethics
Prof. Mary Giordano
Final Paper Fall 2023
Prompt
WRITE IT ABOUT THIS ARTICLE
Adidas was the company I was assigned
2. Adidas – Toxic work culture with Kanye(see: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-…)
You will be assigned, at random, a specific company. You mustwrite your paper on this company. Prepare and submit an individual analytical paper that achieves the following:
1. Provide a brief introduction of the organization, including its industry or line of business, and product or service. Assume that the reader does not know this business.
2. Research the situation summarized below regarding the organization’s ethical failure. Offer a brief explanation of what happened, and your thoughts on the cause(s) of this ethical failure.
3. Imagine that due to this situation, the CEO and board of this company decide to transform from an economic model toward a stakeholder or integrative model of corporate social responsibility. They ask you to provide an executive summary of which model the company should use, and what this new direction might look like.Some questions you shouldanswer include:
a. Which CSR model more appropriately fits the business’s mission and values?
b. Are there stakeholders on whom the business should focus in this new direction?
c. Which ethical philosophical frameworks do you believe should guide the business leaders? Why?
d. Identify a potential program, activity or strategy that the business should take up in advancing this new direction.
e. How would this new direction reflect upon and/oraddress the ethical failure(s)discussed above?
Other Requirements
❖ You must include, at the top of your paper, your name, the word count, and a creative title.
❖ In your analysis, you may use any quality sources you believe are relevant. However,you must consider and reflect upon the article provided below and at least three of the following:
➢ “Business Roundtable Redefines the Purpose of a Corporation to Promote an Economy that Serves All Americans”. Announcement available at: https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundt…
➢ The UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles for Business.Seehttps://www.unglobalcompact.org/. (*check to see if your company is a signatory to the Global Compact)
➢ Friedman, Milton. “A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” New York Times, September 13, 1970.
➢ NYT Dealbook. “Greed is Good, Except When It’s Bad.” New York Times, September 13, 2020. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/dealbo… (be sure to refer to the specific author whose opinion you are discussing)
➢ The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Available at https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declarati…
➢ Carr, Albert Z. “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?” Harvard Business Review, January 1968. Available at: https://hbr.org/1968/01/is-business-bluffing-ethic…
❖ You may not use quotes from any sources. Summarize whatever you believe the source is saying and why it relates to your point. Be sure that your summary reference accurately reflects the source’s point.
❖ Your word count must be 900 – 1200words, inclusive of all in-text citations but exclusive of your Title Page and Works Cited. All sources of external information (i.e., any information you obtained from sources besides your own brain) must be cited both in the text and in your Works Cited.
❖ Include a Works Cited list, in proper APA format, at the end of your paper. While you must use a minimum number of four sources, five to seven sources are suggested to ensure a thoughtful and supported paper.
❖ Papers must be submitted via Canvas in Word format, using TurnItIn. Papers are due on the date and time stated on Canvas. I will not accept papers after they are more than 4 days late without a legitimate, documented excuse. If you have any concerns about internet or computer problems, you may wish to submit your paper early to ensure it is successfully submitted. You will be given 3attempts; I will only review the latest attempt.
❖ All the criteria and requirements in the Syllabus regarding written assignments (clarity of writing, proofreading, professionalism, page limits, etc.) must be followed and, as always, all Rutgers academic integrity rules will be enforced. You may use websites and services that assist you in improving the quality of your writing (e.g.,Writing Center, Grammarly.com). You may not use websites and services that will write papers for you, conduct research for you, or give you other students’ papers to use. You may also notuse ChatGPT of other AI websites to write your paper.
Grading: 300 points possible (30% ofyour final grade)
• Quality and thoughtfulness of substantive information and ideas
• Overall quality of writing, including accurate and appropriate use of sources
• Refer to rubric in the syllabus and use APA formatting, including a title page, however, no abstract is necessary.
Assigned Companies
(The number corresponds to your group number in Canvas /People /Final Paper Companies)
2. Adidas – Toxic work culture with Kanye(see: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-…)
