SHEILA- UP TO 5/1/2024- CLASS 2 ***** PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ALL WORK IS AUTHENTIC***** ****** THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS 3 PARTS / PLEASE LABEL EACH PART SEPARATELY WITH REFERENCES WHEN COMPLETED******

Requirements & Description of the assignment:

2. You can choose whether it is a for-profit business or a non-profit organization, or whether your company is focused on developing products or services or both; but for this essay, your company must have a distinctive social mission. This means that “to generate/increase profits” is not a sufficient justification for the company or explanation of its goals. The company must see its purpose and goals, to use Naughton’s terminology, as “developing products and services that enhance the common good, and developing communities of work that help people to develop.” In this context, Naughton continues, “profit is a means to achieve these ends.” Thus, however you structure your company or choose its products or services, it must aim to have a positive impact on society as one of its main goals.

3. The essay takes the form of a proposal. This means that you are writing this to persuade someone to invest in your company. So, try to be persuasive, and don’t be scared to be personal. The type of investors that would invest in this type of company would want to know that you have a passion for the company’s mission, and want to ensure that this kind of passion resonates well with your experience and overall life goals.

4. Your imaginary prospective investors (= targeted audience), who will be reviewing your pitch, are very committed to ethical leadership, and have a history of only investing in companies that demonstrated exceptional ethical leadership. You will therefore have to describe to them how you will provide ethical leadership at an organizational level and through certain workplace policies. I have outlined some of the categories that you must fill in as part of your proposal.

5. Common sense: of course, there are many elements that are contained in here which would not be spelled out in a common business proposal; and conversely, there are several elements in a common business proposal that would need to be included here which currently are not. Nonetheless, I take it that this is an interesting and creative way of synthesizing the course materials and having you apply it “top down” as you try to imagine creating an ethically sound company with a strong social mission.

Proposal Name

{Today’s Date}

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{Your Name}

{Your Proposed Company Name}

{A fake address}

{Your City, ST 12345}

{Propose your business or organization here. This is your elevator pitch. What is your proposed business about in a few sentences. Make this as concise as possible. (Typically 4-7 sentences)}

{Here write what your company goals are. What is it that you hope your business or organization will accomplish? What are its primary goals? }

Length requirement for this section: 1-2 pgs. (Includes the bullet points below)}

1. {Insert Goal # 1}

2. {Insert Goal #2}

3. {Insert Goal #3}

{What are the core values that guide your company? Will your company be guided by utilitarian ethics? Deontological ethics? Virtue ethics? Here you must (1) justify the core values that guide your company by persuasively presenting (2) the ethics that underlie those values and (3) why that form of ethics (utilitarian; deontological; or virtue ethics) is the most persuasive. By extension, this will determine what values will inform how you prioritize different groups for your services/products, or how you conduct employee management, etc.

Length requirement for this section: 1-2 pgs. }

1. Corporate Responsibility

{Here, tap into your work in Module 2, and describe how you would approach corporate responsibility. Why would you approach it in whatever way you’re describing? Explain and justify your response}

1. Approach to the Meaning of Work and Roles in the Workplace

{Here, tap into your readings and work in Module 3, and describe how you would present the meaning of work and roles in the workplace to your future employees}

1. Diversity in the Workplace

{Here, tap into your readings and work in Module 3, and describe how you would approach diversity in the workplace. Here, you need to be nuanced and articulate your position regarding whether your company will hold to equality of opportunity or equality of outcome, and why. Two further notes: (1) It is not sufficient to provide a general response about the value of diversity and how different perspectives/ cultures enrich one’s company. The response here must be more nuanced. (2) It is also not sufficient to simply speak against discrimination, though that’s important to include. You must also address the role that you give to diversity in your hiring, promotion, and termination policies. For example, will you have policies in place to ensure equal opportunity? Suppose that you say yes, then the next question: suppose that you are considering which employee should receive a promotion to a management position that opened up. What role does diversity play in your assessment of the applicants? What role does it play in relation to, say, professional experience or professional skill or merit? How will you navigate these things?

Length requirement for this section: 2-3 pgs. (includes the items that fall under the heading “Ethical Leadership” }

{Here, describe how your personal background prepared you to lead this company, and how leading this company is intertwined with your sense of calling (vocation). In other words: here, you will tap into your work with The Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection, and present your background and relation to this project as a vocation.

Length requirement for this section: min. 1 pg. }