Business Ethics Paper
For this project you will be completing a 4-5 page paper that will focus on the topic of
business ethics. The paper needs to be prepared in a way that is organized, free from
grammatical and punctuation errors and is college-level. You should use a clear font
that is highly readable with a font no larger than 12 and no smaller than 10. Your paper
should be double spaced and include a title page and a Works Cited page (these two
pages do not count towards the 4-5 required pages). You also need to use in-text
citations throughout your paper giving credit to your sources for thoughts other than
your own. Your paper needs to adhere to college wide policies on academic integrity so
be very careful not to plagiarize and to give credit to your sources when necessary. The
paper is worth 150 points and must be submitted through the Blackboard Assignment
link.
In the paper you will compare and contrast the differences between corporate social
responsibility and ethical behavior by a corporation. In the paper you will need to
consider and incorporate your thoughts about the following (I suggest you include a
separate heading for each of these sections in your paper):
• How ethical behavior impacts business decisions by corporations
• Why organizations today need to demonstrate social responsibility to be
considered ethical
• Describe some of the ethical issues faced by organizations
• Describe the process organizations use to establish a code of ethics to
encourage ethical behavior
• Discuss ways in which a corporation’s stakeholders influence its policies on
social responsibility
Once you have discussed all of the above in your paper, research and include
discussion of a recent ethical violation by a corporation. Your paper should describe
what happened, how it happened and what the result of the ethical violation was for the
corporation and the people involved. Also describe the effect on stakeholders.
A rubric is available for the assignment.
