Learning Outcomes

This real-world case assignment will provide you with the following learning opportunities and outcomes:

1. Give you exposure and raise your awareness, knowledge and understanding of various actual environmental, social and governance ethical issues in business
2. Enable you to recognize unethical conduct when you encounter it, and assess its negative impacts on stakeholders as well as risks/impacts for the business
3. Instill in you the importance and value of of ethics and ethical conduct by you as well as your company
4. Enable you to act ethically, promote ethics in your workplace, and prevent unethical conduct by others throughout your career in the real-world

Instructions

1. Watch the video The Corporation link provided under EVALUATIONS Individual Assignment 1 on eConestoga. Watch entire video if you can, but you must watch minimum 1 hour of it.
2. Then, briefly but clearly answer the following questions in the corresponding columns in the table below.
3. Finally, submit this completed Word document in the corresponding dropbox within the due date given in the Instructional Plan and on eConestoga.

Questions

Provide your brief but clear answers to the following questions in the corresponding columns in the table below.

1. Identify and provide a brief description of 3 major ethical issues reported in the video. Make sure you first provide the company name and industry (or main product).

For each major ethical issue identified, answer the following questions briefly in the table below:

2. Identify the types of stakeholders that were negatively impacted by the companys unthical actions/conduct (e.g. workers/employees, customers, environment, local communities, shareholders, etc.), and briefly describe how each stakeholder group was impacted (harmed).
3. Based on the video or your own assessment (undertake research from credible sources, if needed), did the company breach (break/violate) any:

1. applicable laws or regulations;
2. pertinent international or industry standards/norms; or
3. of its own company policies, codes, values, principles, procedures or protocols?

If yes, simply name the types of laws, standards/norms, or company policies codes, values, principles, procedures or protocols, the company may have violated. (e.g. environmental, health & safety, employment/labour, human rights, securities, financial/accounting, governance, bribery/corruption, ethical marketing, etc.). Note: Specific laws (acts, regulations) are NOT required.

4. Keeping in mind the importance of compliance with laws and ethical principles, was the companys conduct (and/or its arguments defending it) justifiable or not? Briefly explain why or why not.
5. What preventive measures by the company could have prevented this kind of unethical conduct from happening (at that time, or again in the futur?
6. Reflection: Briefly state the 3 main things that you learned from The Corporation documentary (that you can apply in the real-world).

Student First & Last Name and Number: __________________________________________________

Note: Enter your concise (brief but clear) answers below. Refer to the full questions above before answering.

Questions	Major Ethical Issue 1	Major Ethical Issue 2	Major Ethical Issue 3
a) Company, industry / product + brief, clear description of major ethical issue (in 1 or 2 sentences)
b) List all negatively impacted stakeholder groups; and how each group was adversely impacted
c) Name the types of laws, standards, or company policies, codes, values that might have been violated by the company (see examples in the question above)
d) Was the companys conduct justifiable or not? Why or why not?
e) Preventive measures (see question above)

f) Reflection: Three main things I learned from The Corporation documentary - especially about the importance of Ethical Conduct in Business - that I can apply in the real-world (2 sentences each):

1.

2.

3.

REFERENCES

List the credible research sources you may have used as needed to fully and clearly answer the above questions in APA @ Conestoga style.