Introduction to Ethics
Task Name: Phase 5 Individual Project
Create a 12-15 slides, including title and references slides
Select one of the organizations that you have reviewed or already discussed in one of your Individual Projects. Identify a gap or gaps in the organization's corporate social responsibility plan. Create a presentation that will help the organization close the gap or gaps that exist in terms of social responsibility. Be sure to address the following in your presentation:
• Identify any ethical issues and legal issues.
• Identify how the issues violate utilitarianism, social contract theory, or Kant's categorical imperative principles.
• Identify the stakeholders affected by the gap or gaps.
• Propose an action plan to help bridge the gap or gaps and improve the company's relationship with its stakeholders.
• Discuss the checks and balances that are required and why.
• Explain how your action plan will benefit the organization overall and why it is necessary.
• Propose Next Steps.
• Wrap up your presentation with a conclusion.
A minimum of 4 references should be used to reinforce your thoughts. Be sure to include these both as in-text citations on your slides and on your reference slide.
Objective:
• Define the following ethical concepts and theories: virtue ethics, Kant's Categorical Imperative, ethical relativism, utilitarianism, corporate social responsibility, and social contract theory.
• Identify and defend moral and ethical theories to ethical case studies and current events.
• Solve ethical dilemmas from case studies and current events using moral and ethical theories.
• Recognize the business owner or business executive's point-of-view for taking certain unethical or ethical actions from case studies and current events.
• Identify ethical quandaries regarding government involvement and laws impacting organizations' day-to-day operations and business decisions.