ORGANIZATION$-$Byte Dance $($Tik$-$Tok$)$

My field$-$ Business

A key takeaway for you to always remember is that a SWOT is never done; it's a living document that needs to be revisited each time you revisit your organizational strategy, culture, or anytime a major change is on the horizon. The day you stop worrying about what risks are looming is the day you get caught off guard, much as occurred for many organizations with the recent pandemic, the protests sweeping the nation, and the many natural disasters occurring on a yearly basis. The same is true with opportunities. Stay attuned to your SWOT analysis so that you won't miss those "golden opportunities" when they arise!

Questions

$$ Find a company of interest to you that has gone under or had extensive negative media attention due to unethical decisions $($e$.$g$.$ data privacy mishandling, financial improprieties, denials of service to people from different cultures, responding to protests, other social injustices, etc.$).$ You may know of a prominent organization in your field, or there may be a "notorious" organization in your region that you would like to examine more deeply. Choose one that has enough information in the public domain for you to be able to conduct your SWOT. Use credible media sources on the organization. Then supplement these with your discipline's code of ethics and at least two scholarly peer$-$reviewed articles on the ethical issue represented to provide an evidence$-$based analysis.

$$ Now that you have gathered your credible source information, use the SWOT Analysis template to conduct a SWOT Analysis on the decision and the alignment or misalignment of its organizational strategy $($which would drive the decision$)$ and the organization's stated values.

$$ Select five of each of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

$$ Provide recommendation for how the organization could have leveraged the strengths and opportunities to choose a different decision$$one that might abide more strongly to your discipline's code of ethics.