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MORAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS

CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT

Length: 7-8 Pages (excluding title and bibliography)

Format:

• Essays must be typed in double-spaced size 12 Times New Roman font.

• Pages should be formatted with 2.5 cm margins.

• Pages should be numbered.

• Hardcopies must be submitted in person during class.

Title Page & Bibliography:

Your case study project must be accompanied by a title page which includes a title, your name, student number, and UW email address.

A ‘Works Cited’ page containing all relevant bibliographic information should also accompany the assignment. Each entry in your works cited list should look something like this:

Last Name, First Name (Year of Publication). ‘Chapter Title’. Book Title. Publisher: City of Publication.

Citations:

Students are being evaluated primarily on the extent to which they can demonstrate knowledge of the required readings, and apply that knowledge to a critical examination of a specific moral issue in business today. Students are therefore expected to substantiate their interpretative claims and arguments by referring directly to those required readings.

When quoting, you must place the borrowed words within quotation marks and provide a citation at the end of that sentence. When citing, follow a simple in-text author-date-page system. For example:

According to Bowie, the theory of “utility maximization” is premised on “ideological assumptions” which, so long as they are adhered to, “obliterates ethics” (Bowie 2013, 32).

However, even when paraphrasing things in your own words, or when referring to specific concepts, arguments, or examples from texts, you must still offer a citation. For example:

The theory of psychological egoism involves ideological assumptions which, as long as they are accepted, prevent any reconciliation between ethics and economics (Bowie 2013, 32).

Quotes 4 or more lines in length should be separated from the main body of the text, indented 1 cm on both sides, single-spaced, and placed in size 10-point Times New Roman font.

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Students must adhere to a strict code of academic conduct. Plagiarism is a serious form of misconduct. Please consult the Regulations & Policies webpage of the University of Winnipeg.

Case Study Guidelines:

For the case study project, students must select 1 particular moral philosopher studied in Phil 2230: Moral Issues in Business, and choose 1 relatively specific and relatively recent (from 2008 - 2020) moral issue in business. Students must critically analyze and evaluate the morality of their case study topic from within the perspective of their chosen school of moral philosophy.

Students must select a school of moral philosophy studied in Phil 2230. Pick one of the following:

• Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics

• Thomistic Ethics

• Smith’s Moral Sentimentalism

• Mill’s Utilitarianism

• Keynes’ Moral Science

• Whitehead’s Process Ethics

• Sen’s Capabilities Approach

Your case-study paper must refer to 2 of the required readings related to that particular philosopher (the primary reading by the philosopher, and the secondary reading by a contemporary business ethicist).

Your paper must also refer to at least 1 magazine, newspaper, or academic journal article about the specific issue being analyzed. Please attach a printed or photocopied copy of the article to your paper. No further research is required.

Your analysis might include: formulating criticisms of specific business practices and attitudes; garnering insights into the ethical/unethical nature of the situation and response of the business; as well as offering advice for CSR strategies and corporate codes of conduct designed to repair, improve, and/or maintain ethical standards--- all of these should be designed from within a theoretical perspective inspired by your chosen school of moral philosophy.

You may want to ask yourselves:

• Why might your chosen moral philosopher criticize certain business behaviours as unethical?

• What relevance does their critique have for the analysis of moral issues in business today?

• What moral insights does it offer into the specific ethical dilemmas faced by businesses today, i.e., such as the business in your case study?

• What might your chosen type of moral philosophy contribute to developing CSR models and codes of conduct aimed at remedying wrongs?

• What original and substantive contributions does your case study essay make to contemporary secondary literature and scholarly discussions on business ethics?

In their case-study assignments, students are expected to:

1. Summarize the nature of their case study topic by referring to and citing their newspaper or journal article;

2. Summarize the meaning and explain the significance of whatever philosophic concepts, arguments, theories, and criticisms they consider to be relevant to their ethical analysis of that topic with reference to the course-related literature; and

3. Evaluate and critically analyze the case study topic within the context of their chosen school of moral philosophy.