2024 – Short Paper 1 Business stakeholders including shareholders employees customers and the general public receive positive benefits

Short Paper #1

Business stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the general public, receive positive benefits from businesses that follow ethical principles and practices.  Ethical dilemmas, where there are conflicting interests and no easy answers, arise in all business.  When they do, people are called upon to make difficult decisions.  Students will write a paper focused on business ethics using information from the course material provided and from their own research.

Required Elements of Short Paper #1:

 

·         Read critically and analyze the scenario below;

·         In your paper, respond to the questions following the scenario.

 

Required Formatting of Paper:

·         This paper should be double-spaced, 12-point font, and two to three pages in length excluding the title page and reference page;

·         Follow this format for your paper:

o   Title page

o   Introduction

o   Body, in paragraph form.  Use the following section headings:

§  Jan’s Ethical Dilemma

§  Employees’ Roles/responsibilities in Ethical Situations

§  The Organization’s Role/responsibility in Ensuring Ethical Practices

o   Summary paragraph

o   Reference page formatted according to APA requirements.  Include at least two reference page citations and their corresponding in-text citations.

·         Write in the third person;

·         You are expected to paraphrase and not use quotes.  Deductions will be taken when quotes are used and found to be unnecessary;