BCO121 ETHICS IN BUSINESS – Task brief & rubrics
AUDIT REPORT
Description:
• On Week 11, your professor will kick-off with you the Final Project, and will comment on its most important aspects in the virtual session. The Final Project comes with
a few guidelines, that you will have to follow up in order to be able to finish your document.
• On Week 13 you have to submit your Final Project – document on Moodle (max. Friday of that week!)
• The session of Week 13 will be an extra tutoring session: you will be able ask the professor for last advice on your project
Guidelines:
• You are asked to choose an existing business (profit or non-profit) and prepare a report that evaluates their “ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTISE”.
• The objective is to make an “audit report”, thereby assessing their business practises in terms of (choose max. 4):
– Corporate governance and finance (more information is provided in unit 6 of the course)
– Marketing (more information is provided in unit 7 of the course)
– Employee Relations (more information is provided in unit 8 of the course)
– Sustainability (more information is provided in unit 9 of the course)
– Technology (more information is provided in unit 10 of the course)
• Each of the (max. 4) issues you choose, has to cover a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 400 words. The amount of words include:
– description of the activities you find and
– the assessment of these activities (using theory, concepts and approaches towards ethics provided throughout the course)
Formalities:
• The minimum amount of words to be used is 1000 (choice of 3 or 4 subjects), and the maximum is 1600 (choice of 4 subjects, 400 words each)
• You may want to include images/graphics etc. (for example from their website) to make your reasoning and argumention more visual and explicative
• Font: Arial. Size: 12,5pts. Line spacing: 1,5. Text align: Justified.
• Appendices and References, do not count towards the final wordcount but are strongly recommended (referencing websites, articles, books etc.)
LAUNCH: WEEK 10 / FINAL TUTORING SESSION: WEEK 13 / SUBMISSION: WEEK 13 ON MOODLE, FRIDAY 10th, BY 23.59HRS
Weight: This task is worth 35% of your overall grade for this subject.
Outcomes: This task assesses the following learning outcomes:
– Understand the concept of sustainability and its implications and become familiar with the main approaches to business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
– Understand commonly-occurring ethical issues and dilemmas in managing businesses.
– Relate ethics to the performance of organizations.
– Determine how to improve the responsibility of business on respecting human rights and the natural environment, promoting human development and contributing to a better society.
Rubrics
Exceptional
90-100
Good
80-89
Fair
70-79
Marginal fail
60-69
Knowledge and
Identification of
the main Issues
20%
Identifies and demonstrates a
sophisticated understanding of
the main issues / problems in
the case study
Identifies and demonstrates an
accomplished understanding of
most of the issues/problems.
Identifies and demonstrates
acceptable understanding of
some of the issues/problems in
the case study
Does not identify or
demonstrate an acceptable
understanding of the
issues/problems in the case
study
Application
30%
Student applies fully relevant
knowledge to the situation
provided
Student applies mostly relevant
knowledge to the situation
provided
Student applies some relevant
knowledge to the situation
provided. Some minor
misunderstandings may be
evident.
Student applies little relevant
knowledge to the situation
provided. Misunderstandings are
evident.
Evaluation
30%
Student assembles a coherent
response to the question,
providing a range of support
and justification that leads to a
well-reasoned conclusion
Student assembles a good
response to the question,
providing support and
justification that lead to a well-
reasoned conclusion
Student assembles a fair
response to the question,
providing some support and
justification that lead to a well-
reasoned conclusion. Minor
misunderstandings may be
evident
Student’s response to the
question lacks coherence.
Limited support and justification
are provided that may or may
not be well linked to the
conclusion
Communication
20%
Student communicates ideas
extremely clearly and
concisely. Compliance with the
guidelines on font, size, line
spacing and text align will also
be taken into account.
Student communicates ideas
clearly and concisely.
Compliance with the guidelines
on font, size, line spacing and
text align will also be taken into
account.
Student communicates ideas
fairly clearly and concisely.
Compliance with the guidelines
on font, size, line spacing and
text align will also be taken into
account.
Student attempts to
communicate ideas clearly and
concisely, with some problems.
Student does not follow the
guidelines on font, size, line
spacing and text align.