ACTION PLAN IN ASSISTING SMALL

BUSINESSES IN PRACTICING ETHICS

AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Senior High School (ABM)
Quarter 2 / Week 6
 FOREWORD

This self-learning kit will serve as a guide in preparing

and implementing a proposed personal action plan that
will assist an existing small business enterprise to practice
ethics and social responsibility in their business operation.
It will help you acquire and enhance your understanding
of business and how it helps socio-economic
development. In this learning kit, you will get to know
more about the businesses in your locality, how they
operate to earn a profit, and how they have helped the
people in the community.

This SLK is rooted in the competencies designed by

the Department of Education to help you develop your
critical thinking skills and also establish values that will
hone you to become globally competitive individuals.

This Self-Learning Kit contains 3 parts, namely:

What Happened?
This includes pre-activities that will get you ready
for the new topic.
What You Need to Know?
This will discuss what the topic is all about.
What Have I Learned?
This evaluates your learning. It has an activity
that will help determine the level of your
understanding.

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 OBJECTIVES:
K. Identify the parts and contents of each, of an action
plan;
S. Construct an action plan that will assist small business
enterprise to practice ethics and social responsibility; and
A. Appreciate the importance of an action plan to
businesses.

I. WHAT HAPPENED

PRE-TEST
Directions: Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
Write your answer in your activity notebook.

1. A system of moral principles or rules of conduct relating to human

behavior.

a. Ethical dilemmas
b. Reputation
c. Guilt
d. Code of Ethics

2. Truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness.

a. Values
b. Honesty
c. Trust
d. Code of Ethics
3. Lacking moral principles.
a. Ethical dilemmas
b. Values
c. Unethical
d. Reputation
4. Jason figures out his teacher’s password to unlock her electronic
grade-book. What is the ethically correct thing for him to do?
a. Tell the teacher so she may change it
b. Give the password to all the other students.
c. Keep it to himself, if someone else figures out the password it is not
his problem
d. Use the password to change his grades.

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 5. ______ are principles of morality or rules of conduct.
a. Customs
b. Cultures
c. Traditions
d. Ethics
6. Jeth, the manager of ABC company, hires his wife’s young nephew
instead of hiring a more qualified applicant. This is ___.
a. Disclosure
b. Confidentiality of Information
c. Conflicts of Interest
d. Compliance
7. What is not something you ask yourself when faced with an ethical
dilemma?
a. Is it legal? Will I go to jail?
b. Is it against school/ company policy?
c. What’s in it for me?
d. How will others be affected by my actions?
8. What is not considered unethical business practice?
a. Treating employees unfairly
b. Selling substandard products.
c. Training employees right out of school.
d. Lying about a price to make a bigger profit.
9. How might an employer treat an employee fairly?
a. Provide good training
b. Offer less than the average pay for the job
c. Encourage the employee to leave the company
d. Ask the employee to do another’s work
10. Which is NOT a consequence of unethical business practices?
a. Losing repeat business
b. Having a well-trained employee
c. Being fined by the Government
d. Losing employees
11. The only social responsibility that businesses have is to focus on how
business decisions affect the company's operation.
a. True b. False
12. _____________ is the overall way in which a business attempts to
balance its commitments to relevant groups and individuals in its social
environment.
a. Business ethics c. Traditions
b. Customs d. Social Responsibility
13. Businesses do not have to provide opportunities to balance work and
life pressures and preferences.
a. True
b. False
14. Do businesses have a responsibility to the environment?
a. Yes b. No

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 15. Price gouging during a natural disaster is a(n) ______ act.
a. Unethical
b. Practical
c. Ethical
d. Impractical

II. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

DISCUSSION
What is an Action Plan?
• An action plan is a road map that outlines the path between the
current situation and the goal to be attained.
• It is a way to make sure your organization’s vision is made concrete.
• It describes the way you will use its strategies to meet its objectives.
Why is it important?

Consider this Conversation of Alice and the Cheshire Cat.

Alice: What road do I take?

Cheshire Cat: Where do you want to go?

Alice: I do not know.

Cheshire Cat: Then, it really doesn’t matter, does it?

Activity 1.

1. Imagine Alice as a business enterprise, based on the conversation,

what do you have to improve on its end and why?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________.
2. Suppose you are to give an intervention to Alice’s situation, what will it
be and why?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________.

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What makes an action plan effective?

1. Current
• We need to know more about the current work to judge
whether this part of the action plan is up-to-date.
2. Clear
• It should outline who will do exactly what by when
3. Complete
• It must include all the steps that need to be taken and are
arranged in sequential order.

Steps to create and implement an effective action plan

1. Assess the current situation

• Before determining the course of action, identify first the
area(s) that need(s) to be modified, and also consider your
resources, capabilities, and competencies.

2. Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals

For an action plan to be effective, the goals must be S.M.A.R.T

S= Specific
M= Measurable
A= Attainable
R= Results-oriented
T= Timely

Specific
For an action plan to be effective, the objective must be specific
rather than vague.
Examples:

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 Vague Goals Specific Goals
× To lose weight as much ✓ To lose 5 kilograms for
as possible the next 60 days

× To increase sales as ✓ To increase sales up to

much as the business 5% for the next quarter
can

Measurable
An effective action plan has goals that can be quantifiable. This
allows a way to measure the degree to which a goal has been
attained.

Examples:

1. To lose 5 kilograms for the next 60 days

2. To increase sales up to 5% for the next quarter
In this example, the quantifiable elements are the 5-kilogram weight
loss target and the 5% increase in sales.

Attainable
Goals should be realistically attainable within the frame of time and
resources available.

Results-oriented
Goals should be written beginning with the word “To” followed
by result-oriented verbs (i.e. To increase, to decrease, to
complete). Verbs that imply tactics used to accomplish goals
should not be used (i.e. “To implement”)

Timely
Goals must specify the target-date or deadline by when it should
be attained. It should give a time frame to execute the actions.

3. Outline Actionable Items

This is the list of steps that must be taken to achieve the goals defined in
the previous step

Remember:
Each actionable item must outline a specific task, state who is the person or
department responsible for it, how often it must be performed, what are
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resources required, and the deadline for completion or revisions. Once the
steps are identified, they must be arranged in sequential order.

4. Implement and measure success

Implementing
• It means executing the action plan. It entails following the
steps in adhering to the timelines.

SAMPLE ACTION PLAN

Objectives Tasks Success Time Frame Resources

(List of Goals ) (what you Criteria (by when you (what or
need to do to (How you will need to who can
achieve the identify your complete the help you
goal) success) tasks) complete
the tasks)
To increase -Make a Number of January 31, Human
the number of poster for the contracts 2021 Resource
employees job opening signed for
from 30 to 40 -conduct January 2021
employees at interview with
the end of the applicants
January 2021 -train the
so as not to qualified
overload applicants to
existing be ready
employees
with the
workload.

Activity 2.

In your notebook, write down 10 goals that you would like to accomplish in
the next 5 days. Remember to make it the S.M.A.R.T. Goals. It could be a
financial goal, educational, etc.

1. If you could accomplish only one goal on your list and you can
accomplish it in 24 hours, which one goal would have the greatest
possible impact on your life? Encircle it.
2. With the selected goal, set a deadline for achieving the goal and
make a list of actions that you can think of to achieve the goal.

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 3. Do something every day that will move you one step forward to your
goal. After the 5th day, explain how creating an action plan helped
you in achieving your goal.

III. WHAT HAVE I LEARNED

POST TEST
Directions: Suppose you have observed businesses that do not practice
ethics and social responsibility, write your description of the issue of the
businesses. Complete the action plan after.
ACTION PLAN

Objectives Tasks Success Time Frame Resources

(List of Goals ) (what you Criteria (by when you (what or
need to do to (How you will need to who can
achieve the identify your complete the help you
goal) success) tasks) complete
the tasks)

Rubrics

1point 3points 5points

Issue description Does not describe Briefly Describes Thoroughly
and importance and explain the the issue and its describes the
importance of the importance issue and its
issue importance.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals Goals are Vague Attributes of Goals are

effective Goals Specific,
are not complete Measurable,
Attainable,
Results-
oriented, and
have a target
date.

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Action Proposal Does not list List actions but Clearly
actions does not explain explains the
its importance action
proposal and
its importance
and details
steps to
achieve it.

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 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF NEGROS ORIENTAL

SENEN PRISCILLO P. PAULIN, CESO V

Schools Division Superintendent

JOELYZA M. ARCILLA, EdD.

Assistant Schools Division Superintendent

MARCELO K. PALISPIS, JD. EdD.

Assistant Schools Division Superintendent

NILITA L. RAGAY, EdD

Assistant Schools Division Superintendent
CID Chief

ROSELA R. ABIERA
Education Program Supervisor – (LRMS)

ELISA L. BAGUIO, EdD

Education Program Supervisor – (MATH)

MARICEL S. RASID
Librarian II (LRMDS)

ELMAR L. CABRERA
PDO II (LRMDS)

JEE LIZA T. INGUITO

Writer

CHRISTY BLEZEILLE L. POCONG

Lay-out Artist
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DISCLAIMER

The information, activities and assessments used in this material are designed to provide accessible learning modality to the teachers
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and learners of the Division of Negros Oriental. The contents of this module
set learning competencies. The writers and evaluator were clearly instructed to give credits to information and illustrations used to substantiate
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 REFERENCES

Social responsibility action plan. Retrieved from https://www.inc.com/

How to write an action plan? Retrieved from https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-

tools/business-strategy-planning/define-strategy/7-steps-create-action-plan-
business-strategy

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 SYNOPSIS AND ABOUT THE AUTHOR

This Self-Learning Kit (SLK) is ANSWER KEY

purposely made for the grade Post Test. Answers may vary
12 students under the Activity 2. Answers may vary

Accountancy, Business, and Activity 1. Answers may vary

Management strand. This A 15.

A 14.
contains three essential parts B 13.
D 12.
that will help the students B 11.

understand and prepare an

B 10.
A 9.
action plan that will assist small A 8.
C 7.
businesses to practice ethics C 6.
D 5.
and social responsibility. It is A 4.

hoped that this learning kit will

C 3.
B 2.

help you as you go along with

D 1.

your lessons.
PRE-TEST

AUTHOR

The author, Ms. Jee Liza T. Inguito, earned her

Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration
major in Financial Management at Negros
Oriental State University. She then had her
Continuing Professional Teacher Education at La
Consolacion College, Bais City and became a
college and SHS teacher in the same institution
teaching Business Management. She is now a
Teacher II in San Jose Provincial High School.

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