Week 3 Individual Assignment: The Responsibility Project

ENG 316 WEEK 3

Resource: The Responsibility Project Web site

Perform a Web search for the site called The Responsibility Project. Select the link for this site.

View the short films on the Responsibility Project Web site.

Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.

Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select. Include the following:

• What are the two biggest issues in the film
• Why are the issues in the film important?
• What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
• How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions? Provide three reasons
• What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film? Explain how the legal and ethical domains can often conflict and out you would try to work through the conflict

Format your paper consistent with APA guideline

Week 3 Discussion Questions

1. Consider an organization where you work, or one with which you are familiar. What is an issue within the organization that could benefit from applying ethical principles? How can these principles be used?
2. Legal and ethical issues can arise in any organization. How might these issues be different? What sort of relationship exists between the two? Provide an example of each from current events. What might the organizations involved have done differently to prevent these legal and ethical issues?
3. Think of an organization with which you are familiar.  How has that organization’s ethical policies changed as a result of external pressure?  Provide examples.
4. XYZ School District is having budget issues and is facing the possibility of cutting some programs.  How could one use ethical principles to address their budget issues?
5. After a series of public accounting violations and several lawsuits about hiring practices, ABC Corporation added an Ethics Hotline and Ethics training to its organization.  What are some other ways that external pressures from its clients, media, and so forth, might change how it views organizational ethics?

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