BUSI 1010 Critical Thinking and Ethics

Ethical Action Plan

In your career you will need to articulate and act upon an ethical argument.  That is, to explain to others why you find some act unethical or as a leader, to chart an ethical course thorough a tricky situation.  The assigned case has an ethical dimension to the managerial decision. Put yourself into the position of the manager and explain what ethical action you would take and why you find that action to be the ethical.
The case “Fresh to Table” raises important ethical issuesas you deliberate over the right action to take in response to the discovery that he bullying of employees went further than you knew.  Will terminating the employment of these employees an ethical decision? Should you reprimand and/or discipline them? Can you ignore this issue and see if your earlier decision to terminate Showalter eliminates the problem, and retain your ethical standard?  

The Assignment

Your assignment will be to identify one ethical issue in the case to be the focus of your report.  Your paper should use the following form:  

Diagram:

You should have 5 section or sub-diagrams that explore the issue within the bounds of each school of ethical thought.  Each diagram should be a complete argument itself. You should explain why the standard in the prescriptive premise is a valid measure of an ethical position.  You should describe all the ways in which your solution upholds the standard. The sub conclusions of these arguments will then be dependant premises supporting the conclusion that (according to the particular school of ethical thought, your proposed actions are ethical.   

When you have completed your diagram then you can write your essay.

Essay

First paragraph should introduce the case and the ethical question at issue.  The rest of the paper will serve to examine the case from 5 different ethical perspectives.  For all of the ethical schools of thought create separate arguments following this format:

1. A paragraph should focus on the ethical (prescriptive) premise for each school of thought that you consider relevant and inviolable.  The conclusion of this paragraph should be your prescriptive premise. You made need to explain why you have chosen this particular prescriptive paragraph.

2. Descriptive Paragraph(s) should describe the facts of the case that are in keeping with your prescriptive premises (or in violation of your prescriptive premises).  As before, the conclusion of this paragraph will be the descriptive premise.

3. Your conclusion paragraph will summarize your argument, and state your sub-conclusion that the actions prescribed are ethical or not ethical according to this standard.

4. The final paragraph of the essay will discuss the ethics of the action you propose, and the justification of that action across multiple schools of ethical thought.

In theory this paper should be 17 paragraphs long, and introduction paragraph (1) then 5 sets of prescriptive, descriptive and concluding paragraphs (2-16) and ending with an overall conclusion showing why your proposed action is an ethical action (17).

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