WRITING ASSIGNMENT

tBUSN311 WEEK 5 WRITING ASSIGNMENT

RESEARCH PAPER OUTLINE (Graded)

Complete and submit to Week 5 Assignment dropbox.

This Assignment will assist you in preparing your Week 7 Assignment Research Paper.

Student Name __Tiffani Duncan____ Date _20210509__________________

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Instructions:

· Go to the Week 7 Assignment for the Course Project and read the instructions thoroughly. Then complete each item below by answering each question in the space provided.

· Save this as a WORD Document using your Name and Assignment. Example: JonesWk5ResearchOutline.docx.

· Answer on this document. It is in “Word,” and spacing will adjust for your replies.

· Submit your completed paper to the Week 5 Assignment Dropbox by Sunday night of Week 5 (11:59 pm ET).

· The maximum point value for each item is stated in parentheses. Actual points will be awarded by your instructor with feedback.

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1. (5 pts) Identify your case study company.

For the Week 7 Assignment, choose your case study from one of three companies: Ford, Boeing, or Purdue Pharmaceutical. State here the name of the company you have selected for your Week 7 Research Paper.

ANSWER: Ford.

2. (10 pts) Statement of an ethical dilemma.

The company you have chosen to write about (no. 1 above) made a business decision –i.e., chose a course of action – which adversely affected others and the company. In making this decision, the company was faced with an ethical dilemma. As you have learned, an ethical dilemma is a conflict between alternatives where neither alternative is desirable. Choosing either one will compromise something. Each choice will have its downside: it could compromise ethics, cause ethical and legal problems, cause harm, raise difficult questions, or otherwise lead to an undesirable situation. Ideally, the decision-maker would do both acts or neither, but he cannot. He has to choose and can only select one. The dilemma is being confronted with these undesirable choices and having to choose one. (For examples of ethical dilemmas, see Bucaro, (2017). Required Reading, Week 5 Lesson).

· In a single, well-crafted sentence, state the ethical dilemma presented in your chosen company’s situation.

ANSWER: As it presented the Ford Pinto Car model, which was likely to cause deaths, Ford faced an ethical dilemma of whether to recall the already manufactured vehicles and modify them for safety or pay off victims of accidents whenever it would happen and save money.

3. (10 pts) Ethical frameworks:

· Identify and briefly define the ethical framework illustrated by your chosen company’s decision. (See Weeks 5 and 6 Lessons and Required Readings.)

ANSWER: The Company illustrated the egoistic framework whereby much focus was made on the company’s profits. The framework allows for an individual (in this case, the company) to maximize the amount of sound the outcome would do to them. This is exactly what Ford did so that it would not have to spend a lot of money to save people’s lives but rather save it by paying just a little after the damage has been done.

· Identify and briefly define the ethical framework that you will argue your chosen company should have utilized to reach a different result in the situation.

ANSWER: The Company should have utilized the utilitarian framework. In this framework, every decision should be the one that produces the least amount of pain and distress. For Ford, that decision could be to recall the Pinto and save people’s lives even if it would mean spending so much money. That way, there would be less pain and distress.

4. (5 pts) Recommendation. Identify at least one business practice as a lesson business management can learn from this case study.

ANSWER: Ford management should learn to involve low-level employees in the making of particular decisions. The decision not to recall the deadly vehicle model was made only at the management level that no one cared to value the lives of people who would die in explosion crashes. If lower-level employees of the company were involved, some would have recommended the recalling of the death-trap vehicles, and lives would have been saved.

5. (70 pts) References. APA help source

You are starting on the next page under the heading, References, list in an APA7 formatted citations list at least seven (7) credible sources you will use to support your Week 7 Course Project.

Go to the next page .

References

De Los Reyes Jr, G., Scholz, M., & Smith, N. C. (2017). Beyond the “Win-Win,” creating shared value requires ethical frameworks. California Management Review, 59(2), 142-167.

Haghighattalab, S., Chen, A., Fan, Y., & Mohammadi, R. (2019). Engineering ethics within accident analysis models. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 129, 119-125.

Kaptein, M. (2017). When organizations are too good: Applying Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean to the corporate ethical virtues model. Business Ethics: A European Review, 26(3), 300-311.

Scharding, T. (2018). This is Business Ethics: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons.

Schwartz, M. S. (2017). Business ethics: An ethical decision-making approach. John Wiley & Sons.

Strother, S. (2018). When Making Money is More Important Than Saving Lives: Revisiting the Ford Pinto Case. Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research, 5(1), 166-181.

Tura, N., Keränen, J., & Patala, S. (2019). The darker side of sustainability: Tensions from sustainable business practices in business networks. Industrial Marketing Management, 77, 221-231.

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