Individual Organisational Ethics Problem Solving

Assessment task details:

This Assessment provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your learnings around the interaction between organisational context and the process of ethical decision making.

This semester’s case study is about Carousell, which is a classifieds marketplace. Carousell states that their platform makes selling “as easy as taking a photo, buying as simple as chatting”. Launched in August 2012, Carousell began in Singapore and is now one of the world’s largest Carousell is the leading classifieds group in Greater Southeast Asia. Carousell’s mission to “make second-hand the first choice” has many positive aspects for sustainability

However, it appears students and other parties involved sell their university textbooks, essay notes and even assignments on the basis that they are not writing an entire assignment. Under the section of “IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services”, essay and paper mills; homework services are listed.

https://stripe.com/en-sg/restricted-businesses (Links to an external site.)

This has not stopped the sale of university materials, such as essays, lecture notes. In some instances, students have been caught because they have reused previous assignments. The use of assignments constitutes misconduct where students argue that these constitute “templates”. However, some students have not properly understood the appropriate use of “paraphrasing” of readings. Firstly, student reports are used without proper acknowledgement.  Secondly, students are replacing or rewriting sentences without attempting to learn concepts, without linking themes in ways that are unique to their own intellectual analysis. These students who misuse assessments that they purchase, are not discovering any concepts that are therefore constrained by what the template assignment contains.

This assessment intends for you to critically make case for how codes of conduct for companies may change due to the overlay of different perspectives of ethics. You are required to research the normative ethics theories covered in this course and to identify on the basis of Carousell’s business model, what their ethical obligations are with regard to the sale of assessments.  Students should focus their research on ethics themes that can be drawn on to construct codes for business operations, such as deontology ethics and teleology ethics and virtue ethics. Students are encouraged to draw on the diverse number of theories under each perspective. You are to write your assignment, taking into consideration how an organisation’s code may differ, based on Virtue, Deontological and Teleological ethics perspectives that may inform CSR.