EHM2 — EHM2 TASK 2: DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP — C206
PRFA — EHM2
TASK OVERVIEW SUBMISSIONS EVALUATION REPORT
COMPETENCIES
3008.1.3 : Policy and Program Development
The graduate develops policies, practices, procedures, and programs that foster organizational ethics and socially responsible behavior.
INTRODUCTION
As an organizational leader, one of your primary roles is establishing programs and policies that ensure
the organization operates under ethical considerations and legal mandates. This responsibility includes
informing employees of the organization’s code of ethics, communicating the code of ethics, providing
training, and ensuring that operational aspects are administered in a legal and ethical manner.
You will assume the role of a leader and decide what strategies you will use to develop a strong
organizational ethical climate. In your position as a leader, you will need to identify primary and secondary stakeholders and satisfy their concerns, understand the organization’s ethical standing, and develop an ethics training program.
SCENARIO
You are a business manager of Paradigm Toys, a publicly held company that is a retailer and manufacturer of children’s toys. The board of directors has asked you to conduct an ethics audit of the company and report to the board if you find the need for ethics training.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and
no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased
from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can
be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria
that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one
rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc.,
unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
Prepare a report (suggested length of 6-8 pages) for Paradigm Toys in which you do the following:
A. Discuss the purpose of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in an organization.
1. Identify one primary and one secondary stakeholder that influence Paradigm Toys.
2. Analyze how Paradigm Toys can meet their CSR for the primary and secondary stakeholders
identified in part A1.
B. Reflect on the importance of ethical leadership by doing the following:
1. Explain why it is important for an organization to develop an ethical culture.
a. Discuss the role that Paradigm Toys’ leadership can play in fostering an ethical culture.
2. Explain the purpose of an ethics audit.
a. Discuss the value that an ethics audit could bring to Paradigm Toys.
C. Develop the ethical framework that you would use if you were faced with an ethical dilemma by doing
the following:
1. Identify and analyze an ethical dilemma in a business setting. (An example of an ethical dilemma
can be found in Task 1. The example in Task 1 cannot be submitted as the specific ethical dilemma response for this aspect.)
2. Evaluate two potential solutions to the ethical dilemma identified in part C1.
3. Explain which solution from part C2 you believe is the more ethical choice.
D. Create a proposal for implementing an ethics training program at Paradigm Toys by doing the
following:
1. Identify three key topics that you would cover in your ethics training program.
a. Explain why you would include the three topics from part D1 in your training program.
2. Recommend a delivery method and justify why you believe it would be the most effective for the
training program.
E. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased,
or summarized.
F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( ) File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
