Ethics in the Business Environment – 2 questions

Task Name:

Discussion Board

Deliverable
Length:

See
Assignment Details

Details:

The discussion assignment for this week includes a review of the
Key Assignment Outline (Code of Conduct Plan) completed your Phase 4
Individual Project

There
are SIX very specific sections that make up your Phase 4 Individual Project
and MUST appear in your Individual Project and your Phase 4 Discussion Board
OUTLINE.  They are:

(1) The
legal regulations of conducting business overseas

*This section MUST include a discussion of the World Trade  Organization (WTO).  That is mandatory.

(2) Your ethical code of
conduct for employees and vendors

*This section is worth 50/150 points, so 1/3 of your total
score.  This should be the LONGEST
section in your paper and it must contain a minimum of FOUR subsections.  Your subsections are your specific policies
such as your Diversity Policy.  You
will use the name of each of your four policies as a subheading and then
underneath, full explain the policy in that subheading in your own words.

(3)
Guidelines for adherence to EEOC, ADA, and Civil Rights laws

*The acronym “EEOC” or the fully spelled out “Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission MUST be in your work and it must be fully explained.  This is mandatory per CTU.

(4)
Distinguishing between right and wrong in business dealings when the action
is legal

*This section is about one thing:  TRAINING. 
How will you train your employees to do the right thing when the
action in question is legal but not ethical? 
Online courses in ethics is one example and guest speakers are
another.  An example of a legal but
unethical act in the workplace would be using company computers for personal
use.  What methods would you use to
train your employees NOT to do this?

(5)
Identifying the issues surrounding the motivation behind unethical or illegal
business operations when the consequences are properly documented.

*All of these words mean ONE THING:  Why do good people do bad things?  In the chat presentation which is also
posted in the instructor files, I GIVE you a great article for this section
and I highly encourage you to use it. 
The article is by Nison & Groth. 
Please either come to the chat, listen to the chat in the archive or
simply download the 7th chat presentation to get the link to this article and
USE it.

(6) The
ethical responsibilities of companies in the marketplace if they are a
monopoly or oligopoly.

In this section, ALL you have to do is explain in a paragraph
the differences between a monopoly and an oligopoly.  That’s it. Do not write one sentence about each
one.  I must see no less than one fully
developed paragraph..

Task Name:

Individual Project

Deliverable
Length:

1,250–1,500
words

Don’t
forget to include a cover page and reference page with all of your resources
cited in APA format.

Details:

Key Assignment

Over the past several weeks, you have been learning the various issues the
ethical and legal challenges and factors involving your organization. Your
task is to compose and submit an ethical code of conduct plan for your
company that addresses the conduct of its employees, vendors, board of
directors, key stakeholders, as well as its business operations in general.
At this phase, you will be submitting a rough draft of this international
business expansion plan for review by your instructor. Take the feedback into
consideration from the instructor, and make any changes as you deem
necessary.

Your ethical code of conduct plan which will be incorporated
into your company’s international business expansion plan should include the
different concepts and ideas that have been discussed over the past several
weeks in this course. You are to submit a detailed plan covering your
operations both nationally and internationally in addition to the conduct of
its employees, vendors, board of directors, and its business operations
overall. The following points need to be addressed in your ethical code of
conduct plan:

• The legal
  regulations of conducting business overseas
• The ethical
  code of conduct for employees and vendors
• Guidelines for
  adherence to EEOC, ADA, and Civil Rights laws
• Distinguishing
  between right and wrong in business dealings and when an action is legal
• Identifying
  the issues surrounding the motivation behind unethical or illegal
  business operations when the consequences are properly documented
• The ethical responsibilities
  of companies in the marketplace if they are a monopoly or oligopoly.

Anything else that you deem important to support your ethical
code of conduct plan. The code of conduct plan should be structured so as to
be easily navigable for employees; including headings for each section, a
clear description of expected and required behavior, training requirements,
method of reporting of unethical or illegal behavior, and consequences of
unethical or illegal behavior.

· 
Your ethical code of conduct plan should demonstrate your
understanding of the concepts and ideas covered throughout the course.