Instructions Throughout this course you have read about various aspects of running a business. Many of these aspects include proper ethical practices that you should enforce within your company. It also includes various ways and points of view that will assist you in creating a policies and procedures document that you can add to your Employee Handbook. These documents will help provide a strong foundation for being successful in your business venture.

In Module 1, you learned about being in the right mindset, marketing, working systems, policies and procedures, finances, health and safety, the importance of ethics, and using fairness/integrity/decency/sustainability as important ethical views. You also created a vision statement for your company that you can use as a basis for your views on running an ethical business.

• In Module 2, you learned about various values and virtues that create good character traits for running an ethical business; you read the list of suggestions of topics to use in your code of ethics; and a useful method for ethical decision making.
• In Module 3, you learned about the benefits, dimensions and steps to creating a corporately social responsible company.
• In Module 5, you read about the ethical challenges facing the trades; examples of ethical and unethical practices and the fraud triangle.
• In module 6, you read about the issues that affect a companys reputation and strategies in creating a successful business with repeat customers.

Specification Using everything that you have learned throughout this course, complete a Code of Ethics and a Policies and Procedures document that you can use for your new business. 1. Policies and Procedures Make a list of at least 15 policies and procedures.

Formation

Part 1. Policies and Procedures

1a. Policy 1 (example, Attendance Policy)

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- up to etcetera. The list here describes what the policy is all about.

1b. Policies and Procedures for Policy 1

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- up to etcetera. The list here tells what step-by-step things is an employee required to do in order to get the result that the policy wants to accomplish. This is also where you start talking about forms to fill up and how those forms are supposed to be filled out. When for example you need to submit forms. Example, how many days before your planned vacation day, do you have to get your boss to give you approval.

You will then continue doing Policies (2a to 15a; examples: Computer Use Policy, Expenses Policy, etc.). Which means you will also be expected to have 2b to 15b.