Tutors, thanks for your assistance. Please be sure to properly cite all resources, and make sure to complete all work in its entirety.

THEME 1:

Read:

• Paying More Than Lip Service to Business Ethics
• Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
• Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance.
• Ferrell, O., & Ferrell, L. (2011). The Responsibility and Accountability of CEOs: The Last Interview with Ken Lay. Journal of Business Ethics, 100(2), 209-219.
• Combining Purpose With Profits

Learning Activity #1 – Corporations and their Consequences – $10

In this week’s readings, consider the far-flung consequences to a corporation’s having engaged in activities we now recognize as unethical. These include the hidden adverse affects of asbestos (in the Manville case), and the far flung financial ruin which accompanied the Enron, E.F. Hutton and the Continental Illinois Bank cases.

What response is appropriate? How do we determine who is responsible here – corporate or individual? On what basis? Can a corporation be held to ethical standards apart from the individual ethical determinations of the people acting on behalf of the corporation? Why – or why not?

Alternatively, should corporate leadership be held ethically responsible for the actions undertaken by corporate agents/employees? On what basis? Why – or why not? Here in particular, the “Last Interview with Ken Lay” (part of your course materials) might be instructive.

Please do not focus on the legal aspects of damages, criminal charges, or reparations. Try to maintain focus on ethical questions within this unique context where the destructive power of certain individual actions was multiplied by the corporate entity in a way that individual action could never have accomplished on its own.

This learning activity will allow you to consider just what a corporation is, and how it can transcend human action and time limitations. It “acts” through human action – through joint human action – which greatly multiplies the possible power and impact of what then becomes corporate action. Corporate “action” and the impact of that action can be much more than the simple sum of its parts. The difficulty arises when individual human action is combined within the corporation, ultimately producing an unethical act or unethical result. This gives rise to the consideration of whether we can effectively “punish” a corporation – or whether punishment is effective only against “real” people. Here, you may also wish to remember that the corporate form was initially intended to limit individual liability. Perhaps this is a case of it doing too well what it was intended initially to do. Should there be the equivalent of a corporate “death penalty” for corporations that have committed what amounts to crimes against humanity? Here we come full circle to whether or not a corporation is capable of ethical intent, apart from the ethical intentions of the humans who act on its behalf.

THEME 2

Read:

• Organizational/Business Ethics (What does it mean to the organization to be ethical?)
• Why it Pays to be Socially Responsible!
• The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
• The Voice of the Stakeholder
• Stakeholders and Stakeholder Theories: An Analysis
• Does Being Ethical Pay?
• A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics
• Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility to a Cynical Public
• Stakeholder Theory
• Redesigning Carroll’s CSR Pyramid Model

Learning Activity #2 – Corporate “Social” Responsibility – $10

What does “Social Responsibility” actually mean, from a corporate perspective? Do some research into the kinds of social responsibility programs currently being pursued by U.S. corporations and report on what you find. Generally, what areas and/or values are being focused on? Pick one program that you admire and describe it. Why do you admire it? What values are emphasized? Does the program correspond to any of the ethical theories we have looked at? Analyze the program from an ethical standpoint, including considering how to balance profit-making with social responsibility, especially where pursuing social responsibility might adversely impact profits.

See if you can’t verbalize why a particular corporate social responsibility program is admirable. Does it perhaps exemplify the display of certain virtues, which would tend to lead to the development of a virtuous character in the corporation’s employees, and in the community the corporation does business in? Could one determine that the program carries out what would be considered a duty, having applied Kant’s Categorical Imperative? [hint: this is a good place to start for environmental values] Would the greatest happiness/pleasure for the greatest number be achieved by the implementation of such a program – which is the stated aim of Utilitarianism.

Have fun with this one – but don’t just tell me you “like” it! Why do you like it – using ethical terminology?

P.S. “It pays” – while a reason – is not necessarily an ethical reason. Killing someone for hire ‘pays’, too, but is not ethical. . . . Likewise, working for a paycheck ‘pays’ – but your work may or may not be a ‘good’ thing. It could be a deadening, dead-end job. Focus on what we would consider “good” – under the various ethical theories.

Project Initiating Assignment D

Description

An important stage in Project Initiation involves making some decisions about your project, developing a description of your project, and listing some important information about your project, all of which are included in something called a project charter. This is as rather substantial document, and will take some time to develop. It should be professional in appearance, and cover the areas discussed below.

You have been asked to identify and select a project from several potential options. To do this you will need to:

1.You now need to decide which project to choose. The inventory and analysis you did for Assignments 1 and 2 should help you to make this decision.

2.Develop your project charter. Typical parts of a project charter might include:

– Project Name

– Project Sponsor

– Assigned Project Manager (You may want to designate some initial roles for your group members)

– Project Team Members (and their role in the project)

– Statement of purpose (i.e. overarching goals, including what project you are focusing on)

– Statement of objectives (i.e. specific high level project deliverables)

– Stakeholders (who they are, and what they expect from the project)

– A basic statement of how the team will approach the work

– Authorized project resources (i.e. people, budget – in your case budget may be based on hours, and you can assign a base rate to all of your work)

– Equipment and Technology you are going to use

– Basic project timeline (which can be substantially refined in the project plan to follow)

The items listed above are the minimum contents that should be in your project charter.  I suggest you use a Project Charter template. You can find the one from the textbook at the textbook author’s website.

Deliverables

·This deliverable should contain:

• An opening paragraph telling what the document contains

b. The major elements of the project charter, as described above.

c. In an appendix, include:

• Assignments 1 & 2 as appendices.

·Upload your Project Charter to the Assignment 4 Dropbox (see the Assignment Dropboxes link in the navigation menu on the left).

Note: The grade for this assignment is based on both content and professional appearance (title page, table of content, headings, format) of the submitted document.

Please have access to the text and you must use in-text citation. I have provided the references please use them. It is a must you check your grammar.

In a three page APA paper address the following:

Assess the importance of policy analysis during the development and implementation stages of public policy.

Discuss the social impact of policies.

Discuss the limitations policies have on government power.

References

Dye, T.R. (2010). Understanding public policy (13th ed.). Longman: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780205757428. Custom ISBN: 9781256054160

Lavis, J.N., Posada, F.B., Haines, A. & Osei, E. (2004). Use of research to inform public policymaking. The Lancet, 364(9445), 1615-21. Retrieved from ProQuest database

• Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on credit fraud, select one (1) credit fraud case which interests you the most. Be prepared to discuss

From the e-Activity, determine the key elements of credit fraud identification. Next, discuss the fundamental ways in which to detect credit fraud, and analyze the main reasons why it is difficult to prove such a fraud. Justify your response.

Argue for or against this statement: Merchants and their employees should subtly screen their customers by asking for two (2) forms of identification in order to prevent identity theft. Next, suggest at least one (1) additional method that a business owner could take in order to curtail identity theft. Justify your response.

RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

Credit card fraud is when a person’s identity is stolen through the use of their credit card. The key elements of credit fraud identification are the charges being made, the withdrawal of funds from an account, stealing the actual card, and obtaining the cardholder’s account and personal information. Fraud is most commonly detected through an analysis of someone’s account. When the individual sees purchases on the account that they have not made, this is usually an identification of credit fraud. There are some individuals who have an identity theft protection plan. These programs monitor a person’s account for a small fee. When they see suspicious activity on the account, they will alert the cardholder for confirmation. In addition to these programs, most banks also have their own fraudalent protection services that they utilize for each customer. It may be difficult to detect some cases of fraud because the location and other pertinent information may be untraceable.