COURSEWORK 2 GROUP REPORT

Year

THREE/2016

MONTH

Subject
Weight

BUS 4023 BUSINESS ETHICS

25%
Submission Date

2016
WEEK 11

REGULATIONS
A. Late Submission

A 10% deduction per day of total coursework marks (excluding weekends and public
holidays).
Late submission between 5 to 10 days, results in a 50% deduction of total coursework
marks.
Late submission past 10 days results in an automatic 0% for coursework and the student
will be barred from the final examination.

B. Deliverables
Students must submit all materials supporting their coursework listed in the deliverable section.

The coursework must be done in a GROUP OF 3 to 5 PERSONS and must be entirely

your own work. Please make sure that you are aware of the rules concerning plagiarism.
If you are unclear about them, please consult your program coordinator/lecturer.
Plagiarism is presenting somebody elses work as your own. It includes: copying
information directly from the Web or books without referencing the material;
submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another students
coursework; stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your
own. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be
dealt with according to the procedures set down by the university.

The coursework should exhibit formal research skills i.e. with a table of content, proper
citations, references, and appendixes.

The coursework write up must be able to demonstrate critical analysis and application of
both theory and practical issues to the company that you have selected.

Student may include additional relevant data/information apart from the proposed
guidelines in conjunction to your research. Additional marks will be awarded for such
attempt.

Apply APA Referencing System.

Your coursework in report format should not be more than 2500 words. Use one and half
spacing with 12-point font and New Times Roman. Fully justified. Pages must be
numbered.

You should submit Turnitin report (below 25% of plagiarism).

A CD containing the softcopy version of your coursework should be submitted as well.

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You should bind your coursework with the Assignment Cover Page as the 1st page and
Grading Sheet (Appendix A) as the 2nd page.

COURSEWORK 2 - QUESTION
You are required to select ONE company of your own choice and critically
evaluate the ethical leadership and human rights issues involving the
management and its employees of the selected company. Evaluate at least
FOUR (4) main ethical leadership and human rights issues faced by the
company and analyse to what extent the company handles these issues in
an ethical manner. You are required to provide strong and relevant
evidences in your analysis or reporting. By applying relevant ethical
theories, provide FIVE (5) recommendations on how the company should
overcome these ethical leadership and human rights issues in a more
appropriate manner.

Your report format should be as follow:

Table of Content
Introduction - Explanation on the background information of your chosen
company.
Evaluation of the company on ethical leadership and human rights
issues - support your presented arguments and points with the real facts
or evidence from the company.
Recommendations by applying 5 relevant ethical theories to
recommend solutions, justify, comments and relate to those highlighted
issues with relevant ethical theories.
Conclusion
List of References
Appendices (if relevant)

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Appendix A
BUSINESS ETHICS
GRADING SCHEME (GROUP REPORT)
Name of Student: _____________________________________________________________
Student ID: ___________________________________________________________________
No.
Assessment Criteria
1.

2.

3.

4.

Weightings

Introduction of the Company and Industry

10

Evaluation of the company on

30

i)
ii)

15
15

ethical leadership
human rights issues

Application of 5 relevant Ethical Theories in

recommendations:

50

i)
ii)
iii)
iv)

Ethical Theory 1
Ethical Theory 2
Ethical Theory 3
Ethical Theory 4
v) Ethical Theory 5

10
10
10
10
10

Presentation of the report:

i.
Appropriate citation and references.
ii.
Style, format and readability including
proper organization of answers.
iii.
Involvement and critical discussion
iv.
Cover Sheet, Table of Content and Page
Number and Proper Heading/Title for
each part answered, list of references
(Use of APA Referencing System or
Harvard Referencing System)
v.
Overall presentation.
TOTAL

10
2
2

Marks Allotted by
Lecturer

2
2

2
/100

/25
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Comments:
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