The Ethical Field Trip assignment involves web-based research and/or review activities done outside of

class. Your Ethical Field Trip requires you to do an electronic search of recent/current on-line (e.g., social

media, media, e-commerce) business ethics cases/events.

Please follow the instructions

:

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First choose and document one credible/trustworthy English language mass media

source/website, if you are unclear as to what website or news site is acceptable, please ask the

Instructor.

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Using your chosen mass media source/website, search for an

example of one ethical and one

unethical

action/event/policy/procedure/etc.,

then cite these cases

(using APA) guidelines.

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Describe the cases, and

describe why you believe it is/was ethical and unethical

. Finally, for the

unethical case, describe what should be done by businesses to reduce the likelihood of these

unethical events occurring in the future.

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REMEMBER TO USE YOUR OWN WORDING (no plagiarism), also REFERENCE YOUR

SOURCES IN A SEPARATE REFERENCE SECTION,

USING APA FORMAT