Assignment: Personal vs. Professional Ethics
• Identify and research a company recently in the news which has faced one of the topics listed below:
o Accounting and business reporting
o Cultural diversity (Howard Gardner article)
o Information security
o Culture and ethics of a company
o Company-client confidently
o Advertising of products
o Privacy and monitoring issues
o Sexual harassment in the workplace
• Write a paper of approximately 3 pages on the company and topic chosen in terms of both the personal and professional ethical issues that existed.
• Include the following in your paper:
o A description of the ethical issue faced by the company
o Effects of the issue on both the personal and professional ethics of company employees
o Evident resolution strategies that the company used to address the ethical issue. If they did not seek to resolve the issue, what strategies could they have used?
o Recommendations on changes that you would propose in order to minimize the identified ethical dilemmas