Business Ethics and Social Responsibility – Week 2

1. Resolving Ethical Business
   Challenges: Albert

   Read “Resolving Ethical Business Challenges” in Chapter 4 of your text,
   and then address the following points.  Support your response with
   evidence from the text.

• Identify the ethical and legal
  issues of which Albert needs to be aware.
• Discuss the advantages and
  disadvantages of each decision that Albert could make and has made.
• Identify the pressures that
  have brought about these issues.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ postings. 
Respond to at least two classmates by sharing additional issues or
advantages/disadvantages that your classmates have not considered. 
Support your views with evidence from the textbook and at least one scholarly
article from the Ashford University Library.

1. Establishing Stakeholder
   Orientation

   Analyze how the process of establishing a stakeholder orientation impacts
   business ethics and social responsibility by completing the following:

• Describing a stakeholder
  orientation.
• Illustrating the effect a
  stakeholder orientation has on business ethics and social responsibility.
• Discussing how a stakeholder
  orientation affects honesty and fairness.

Support your response by citing evidence from the textbook.  All citations
must be formatted in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center..

Guided response:
Review several of your classmates’ posts.  Respond to at least two of your
classmates by sharing an additional way that stakeholder orientation affects
honesty and fairness that they have not yet considered.

Assignment
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week’s Assignment link in the left
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Regulatory Measures

Examine the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO), Sarbanes –
Oxley Act (SOX), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). 

In a three to five page paper excluding title page and reference page(s)
complete the following:

• Explain the events that led to
  each of these regulatory measures.
• Illustrate the impact of these
  laws on business ethics.
• Share a specific example from
  an article or case study that highlights how one or more of these
  regulatory measures have affected business ethics in an organization.
   

In your paper, be sure to reference two or more articles from the Ashford
University Library or other scholarly resources that discuss legislation
intended to reform corporate abuse. 

You may also draw information from peer-reviewed journals and industry reports
to support your findings. 
The written assignments must be formatted in accordance with APA style
guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.