CSU BBA4751 full course (all assignments + Assessments)

Unit II Article Critique

Choose a magazine, journal, or peer-reviewed article to critique on the topic of business ethics. Use the databases within the CSU Online Library, or use another source that contains peer-reviewed articles.

As you read the article, consider the following questions: How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life, and how could it apply to an organization you have observed?

The article you choose must meet the following requirements:

• Be peer reviewed

• Be related to the concepts within this course

• Be at least ten pages in length

The writing assignment you submit must meet the following requirements:

• Be at least two pages in length (not including the cover and reference pages)

• Identify the main topic/question  Identify the author’s intended audience

• Critique the article

• Assess how the author addresses business ethics within the workplace

• Include your own conclusions on the topic

Remember to format this, and all written assignments, using APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit III Article Critique

Read the Reality Check “Do Codes Make a Difference?” on page 165 of your textbook.

As you read the article, consider the following questions: How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life, and how could it apply to an organization you have observed?

The writing assignment you submit must meet the following requirements:

• Be at least two pages in length (not including the cover and reference pages)  Summarize the article

• Identify the author’s intended audience

• Critique the article

• Assess how the author addresses business ethics within the workplace

• Formulate your own conclusions on the topic

Remember to format this, and all written assignments, using APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Research Paper Outline

One of the requirements for this course is the completion of a five-page Research Paper in Unit VIII.

The Research Paper is distinguishable from a report by the inclusion of an original thesis.

The Unit VIII Research Paper will be at least five pages in length, include at least ten references. The topic will be related to content of this course.

This week’s assignment is to construct a framework and summary of your proposed research topic.

For this unit, the writing assignment you submit must meet the following requirements:

• Be at least one page in length (not including the cover and reference pages)

• Include an original thesis

• Describe the approach that you will take to research the subject thesis

• Include five references

Remember to format this, and all written assignments, using APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VI Case Study

Read the case study, entitled “Marketing in Schools” on page 430 of the textbook. Once you finish reading the case study, answer the following questions:

1. Is there an appropriate age that advertising should consider?

2. Who are the stakeholders that will be impacted by your decision, and how will each be affected?

3. What are the benefits and drawbacks to advertising products within schools?

4. What other facts would you need to make a decision, and how might your decision affect the stakeholders?

5. Discuss alternative marketing practices that could be ethical and help the schools to raise money.

Evaluate any assumptions that you make. The case study should be thoroughly discussed, and the written submission should meet the following requirements:

• Be at least two pages in length (not including the cover and reference pages)

• Include a summary of the case study

• Answer the five questions listed above

• Remember to format this, and all written assignments, using APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VIII Research Paper

The assignment for Unit VIII is the final research paper, which will be written on the topic that was approved in Unit IV.

The Research Paper must meet the following requirements:

• Include an original thesis statement

• Be at least five pages in length (not including the title page and references page)

• Be about the subject approved in week four of the course

• Include at least ten references

• Correctly employ APA style formatting

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Question 1

8 out of 8 points

Individual codes of conduct based on one's value structures regarding how one should live, how one should act, what one should do, what kind of a person should one be etc. is sometimes referred to as __________.

Question 2

8 out of 8 points

Philosophers often emphasize that ethics is __________, which means that it deals with a person's reasoning about how he or she should act.

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Dramatic examples from history, including Nazi Germany and apartheid in South Africa, demonstrate that:

:

Question 4

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following observations is true?

:

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following can be thought of as the answer to the fundamental questions of theoretical reason?

Question 6

60 out of 60 points

Describe the advantages associated with ethical decision making.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Unit II Assessment

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• Question 1

8 out of 8 points

The study of various character traits that can contribute to, or obstruct, a happy and meaningful human life is part of __________.

• Question 2

8 out of 8 points

No group could function if members were free at all times to decide for themselves what to do and how to act. Which of the following organizes and eases relations between individuals?

• Question 3

8 out of 8 points

How is a market version of utilitarianism different from an administrative version?

• Question 4

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following statements reflects the approach of a principle-based ethical tradition?

• Question 5

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following is true of a market version of utilitarianism?

• Question 6

45 out of 60 points

What is the biggest challenge posed by egoism?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 1

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following statements is true of ethical cultures?

Question 2

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following is an effective way of creating clear and successful reporting schemes?

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following is true about an integrity-based culture?

Question 4

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following is true about value-based cultures?

Selected Answer:

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following is a traditional approach to corporate culture?

Correct Compliance-based

Question 6

51 out of 60 points

Describe how a values-based culture works.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

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Question 1

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following exemplifies insider trading?

Question 2

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following is a criticism of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following terms refers to shortsightedness about values?

Question 4

8 out of 8 points

If we are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding details, no matter how obvious. According to Bazerman and Chugh, this phenomenon is known as __________.

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

When does issue identification become the first step in the ethical decision-making process?

Question 6

60 out of 60 points

Briefly discuss the conflicts of interests involved in excessive executive compensation.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 1

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following exemplifies insider trading?

Question 2

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following is a criticism of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following terms refers to shortsightedness about values?

Selected Answer:

Question 4

8 out of 8 points

If we are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding details, no matter how obvious. According to Bazerman and Chugh, this phenomenon is known as __________.

Selected Answer:

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

When does issue identification become the first step in the ethical decision-making process?

Question 6

60 out of 60 points

Briefly discuss the conflicts of interests involved in excessive executive compensation.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 1

10 out of 10 points

Marketing practices targeted at elderly populations for goods, such as supplemental health insurance, funerals, etc. are subject to criticism because:

Question 2

10 out of 10 points

Greater consumption is likely to lead to unhappiness, a condition termed __________.

Question 3

10 out of 10 points

The legal doctrine of strict liability is ethically controversial because:

Question 4

10 out of 10 points

Which of the following refers to the growing marketing practice of taking back one's products after their useful life?

Question 5

10 out of 10 points

Which of the following is a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders?

Question 6

10 out of 10 points

Identify one of the implications of the "dependence effect."

Question 7

10 out of 10 points

A consumer's consent to purchase a product is not informed if that consumer is:

Question 8

10 out of 10 points

The __________ ethical tradition would take the two parties' agreement as evidence that both are better off than they were prior to the exchange and thus concludes that overall happiness has been increased by any exchange freely entered into.

Question 9

10 out of 10 points

Which of the following is one of the "Four Ps" of marketing?

Question 10

10 out of 10 points

Which of the following statements is true about negligence?

Selected Answer:

Question 1

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following is an example of a firm that is failing its fundamental social responsibility?

Question 2

8 out of 8 points

In the textbook, Milton Friedman claims that a corporate executive has a "responsibility to conduct business in accordance with his or her employer's desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom" (as cited in Hartman, DesJardins, & MacDonald, 2014, p. 217). This view of corporate social responsibility has its roots in the __________ tradition.

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Corporate managers who fail to give due consideration to the rights of employees and other concerned groups in the pursuit of profit are treating these groups as means to the ends of stockholders. This is unjust according to the __________.

Question 4

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following theories recognizes the fact that every business decision affects a wide variety of people-benefiting some and imposing costs on others?

Selected Answer:

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following models of corporate social responsibility considers business a citizen of the society that it operates in?

Question 6

60 out of 60 points

Can non-profit organizations be categorized under the integrative model of corporate social responsibility? Elaborate.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 1

8 out of 8 points

The triple bottom line approach involves measuring business success of sustainable businesses and sustainable economic development in terms of:

0 out of 8 points

Which of the following responsibilities entails an incentive to redesign products so that they can be recycled efficiently and easily?

Question 3

8 out of 8 points

Markets can work to prevent harm only through information supplied by the existence of market failures. This is better known as the:

Question 4

8 out of 8 points

The three goals of sustainable development that include economic, environmental, and ethical sustainability are referred to as the:

Question 5

8 out of 8 points

Which of the following holds a business is responsible for the entire life of its products, including the ultimate disposal after the sale?

Question 6

51 out of 60 points

What are the general principles that will guide the movement of businesses toward sustainability?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.