Ethics Paper
MANG6113 – Ethical
Leadership
Content of the Ethics Paper
The purpose of the ethics paper is to apply the framework described in Hill’s Just Business to
your workplace. The content of your paper should include a thorough analysis of each of the
following:
• Describe the prevailing value/ethical system in the companies for which you have worked.
• What holiness concerns can you identify in your organization? How have or have not these
been resolved?
• Describe a situation in your organization that raises justice concerns. How was or was not
this situation resolved, and was the resolution just?
• In what ways can you apply the concept of vocation to your job and career? Are there
barriers that affect your ability to live out your vocation at work?
• Describe a workplace situation in which you have observed conduct that was legal but less
than ethical. How did you and/or others involved handle this situation? What were the
long-term consequences of this behavior?
• In your role as an agent of your organization, have you experienced or witnessed moral
dilemmas? Were these resolved in an ethical manner?
• Identify a situation in your workplace in which you have witnessed deception. Was this a
justified deception? How did it affect the trust, community, and dignity rights of others?
Did it have other impacts?
• Describe a workplace situation in which two moral duties conflicted. How did you resolve
the conflict?
• Describe a work-related intentional ambiguity. In your opinion, was the ambiguity morally
permissible?
• In the workplace, have you ever felt uncomfortable concealing information? What did you
do to resolve the tension?
• Have you ever witnessed an unfair disciplinary action or dismissal at work? How did you
react?
• What are your views on affirmative action?
• What is your environmental philosophy? Describe any environmental moral dilemmas that
you have observed. How were or were not these resolved?
• How does the holiness—justice—love framework compare with the ethical framework that
you used prior to being exposed to Hill’s framework? In what ways has it changed your
moral reasoning?
Writing the Ethics Paper
• This paper is due by 11:59 pm Saturday of Week 4 of the course.
• The paper must be completed using APA style and documentation. A guide to APA and
links to APA resources are available on the course home page.
• Content, style, and grammar are all important to the grade. Your paper will be
assessed using the Ethic Paper Rubric posted on the course web site. The rubric that
will be used by the professor to assess your paper is included with the assignment
posted in Week 4 of the course.
• No length is specified. The correct length is whatever length it takes to do an
excellent job with the content of the paper (these papers are normally 10-15 pages
in length).
• You must submit your paper on time to receive full credit. Late papers will not be
accepted without prior approval by your professor. Even if approval is given, a penalty
will be assessed for late papers. The standard late penalty on papers for the Jetter
School of Business is 20 percent per day or portion of day.
• All content is confidential, and your instructor will not copy or share any information
from your paper without your consent.
