MBA 630 KVCC Leading Ethically and Legally at Home and Abroad Essay

The nature of an organization’s business and the environment the business operates in will guide management in ensuring that decisions are both legal and ethical.

In this project, you will expand your ability to make ethically responsible decisions by applying an ethical decision-making model to resolve a business ethics case.

Begin with Step 1: Perform Ethical Analysis.

Check Your Evaluation Criteria

1.3: Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas.

1.4: Tailor communications to the audience.

1.6: Follow conventions of Standard Written English.

1.7: Create neat and professional looking documents appropriate for the project or presentation.

1.8: Create clear oral messages.

2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.

2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.

2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem.

2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.

2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks.

5.2: Assess the implications of legal, ethical and cultural (national) standards on an organization’s operations in global markets and make recommendations for appropriate actions.

5.3: Create, implement, and evaluate a personal leadership development plan.

7.3: Analyze the implications of civil or criminal wrongs and of product or service liability laws and make recommendations to support business decisions.

9.3 Apply the principles of employment law for ethical practices and risk mitigation.

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Project 3: Leading Ethically and Legally at Home and
Abroad
The nature of an organization’s business and the environment the business operates
in will guide management in ensuring that decisions are both legal and ethical. In
this project, you will expand your ability to make ethically responsible decisions
by applying an ethical decision-making model to resolve a business ethics case.
Begin with Step 1: Perform Ethical Analysis.
Step 1: Perform Ethical Analysis
Vice President Dodger has provided you with the Electropic LLC case file, which
details recent events at Electropic LLC, one of Colossal’s technology companies.
He has asked you to analyze the legal and ethical aspects of the case. The ethical
aspects of the situation seem complex, and you realize that you need a structured
way to think through the various resolutions to the case and their implications. You
know that there are many different schools of ethical thought and a variety of
frameworks or approaches for analyzing ethical problems, but you decide that the
best approach to this particular situation is Badaracco’s right versus right
framework.
You’ll start by working through the right vs. right ethical analysis, considering the
various options for action and the winners and losers for each option. What are
your recommendations for the best ethical course of action? Be sure to analyze all
four questions and all three tests of Badaracco’s framework.
When you’ve finished analyzing the ethical aspects of this case, continue to the
next step, in which you’ll consider any legal issues that could affect your decisions.
.
Step 2: Perform Legal Analysis
As you continue to sift through and consider all the details of the Electropic LLC
case, Vice President Dodger reaches out with an important note:
INBOX (1 NEW EMAIL)
From: Kenneth Dodger, Vice President, Colossal Corporation
To: You
Just wanted to remind you that in addition to the ethical aspects of the Electropic
LLC situation, there may be legal implications that the human resources
department needs to account for before moving forward with any plan of action.
To that end, you’ll need to review any relevant information
about fraud and employment at will, that might affect what could or should be
done about the situation at Electropic LLC.
When you’ve worked through the possible legal implications and arrived at a
recommended course of action for Electropic LLC’s HR department, it’s time to
present your analyses, recommendations, and action plan in a report.
Please use your outline and research notes to inform the writing of your report.
That’s all for now. I know this is a tricky case. Thank you for your efforts.
Ken
Step 3: Write Your Electropic LLC Report
Use your outline and research notes to prepare your report. Be sure to meet the
following requirements laid out by the VP:
•
Using Badaracco’s right vs. right framework and your legal analysis, prepare
a report.
•
Include APA-formatted in-text citations and an APA-formatted reference list
(do not format the body of the report using APA style, just the reference
list). See references and citations for details.
•
Include in your report a detailed analysis of all four questions and three tests
of the Badaracco framework; also include an analysis of the legal issues.
•
Include a specific recommendation on what actions, if any, HR should take
based on your legal and ethical analysis and conclusions.
•
The report should be no more than 10 pages (double spaced, 12-point font;
the reference list does not count toward page limit).
•
Title your file using this protocol: lastname_Electropic_date.docx.
Submit your Electropic report to the submission dropbox located in the final step
of this project. You should try to have this report complete by the end of Week 6.
In the next step, you will begin work on the final task from the VP regarding global
law and ethics.
Step 4: Review the Global Shippers, Inc. Case File
Now that you’ve submitted your response to the Electropic incident, you turn your
attention to the Global Shippers case file. The vice president has appointed you to a
board of confidential advisors to discuss whether the Global Shippers CEO’s
actions were legal and ethical.
You open the file. Reading over the specifics of this situation, you soon understand
that the VP is legitimately concerned about the legal and ethical violations.
In the next step, you will gather the information you need to identify important
issues for the VP.
Step 5: Gather and Analyze the Information
While you have some general awareness that there are many ramifications of
international transactions from legal and ethical perspectives and many cultural
differences among countries, you realize that you need to know a lot more about
these subjects before you can attempt to respond to the VP’s questions.
Before you begin your research, listen to this introduction to cross-cultural
awareness podcast as it relates to working with people from other cultures. Then
review the following topics as you work to meet the VP’s request: international
business ethics, laws, and regulations, cross-cultural ethical business decision
making (specifically focus on the “Ethical Theory in Global Business” resources),
and country cultural differences.
Step 6: Engage in the Global Law and Ethics Discussion
Discussion
Now that you’ve gathered information and analyzed the legal and ethical
consequences of Manning’s actions as outlined in the Global Shippers case file,
you’re expected to discuss your conclusions and rationales with the board of
confidential advisors convened by Vice President Dodger. Two main requirements
will structure this discussion:
•
First, each board member is to post an initial response fully analyzing the
following questions:
o
Were Manning’s actions legal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act, and what are the possible penalties for violating the act?
o
Were Manning’s actions legal under the UK Bribery Act and what are
the possible penalties for violating the act?
o
Were Manning’s actions ethical, particularly in light of differing
cultural norms?
When answering these questions, be sure to apply the following guidelines:
Provide a full explanation for why all his actions were or were not legal and ethical
in your discussion, including a full rationale for each conclusion. This post can be
as long or as short as you need in order to effectively make your points.
•
Second, each member of the confidential board of advisors must provide a
substantive response to at least one posting from a colleague in the
discussion, critiquing the initial post with rationale based on legal and
ethical analysis.
Consult MBA Discussion Guidelines for instructions on participation in
discussions.
Step 7: Submit Your Work
Check Your Evaluation Criteria
Before you submit your assignment, review the competencies below, which your
instructor will use to evaluate your work. A good practice would be to use each
competency as a self-check to confirm you have incorporated all of them. To view
the complete grading rubric, click My Tools, select Assignments from the dropdown menu, and then click the project title.
1.3: Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas.
1.4: Tailor communications to the audience.
1.6: Follow conventions of Standard Written English.
1.7: Create neat and professional looking documents appropriate for the project or
presentation.
1.8: Create clear oral messages.
2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical
consideration.
2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.
2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its
value and relevance to the problem.
2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.
2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against
relevant criteria and benchmarks.
5.2: Assess the implications of legal, ethical and cultural (national) standards on an
organization’s operations in global markets and make recommendations for
appropriate actions.
5.3: Create, implement, and evaluate a personal leadership development plan.
7.3: Analyze the implications of civil or criminal wrongs and of product or service
liability laws and make recommendations to support business decisions.
9.3 Apply the principles of employment law for ethical practices and risk
mitigation.