Identify an ethical issue, and use utilitarian, Kantian and virtue ethics to analysis the issue
You must be addressing a business ethics issue from the past 3 years. It should be a specific issue not a general and broad ethics issue such as low paid work. The title for the essay, which should be of the form “Should . . .”.
Your essay should be a maximum of 4000 words including references. The suggested structure is : Introduction (1 page), utilitarian analysis (1.5 pages), Kantian analysis (1.5 pages), virtue ethics analysis (1.5 pages); conclusion (1.5 pages), one-page summary. Note that you are NOT required to restate the main points of the ethical theories
Additional requirement:
1. For background, it must include facts, argument and question.
2. For utilitarianism, you have to identify stakeholders; how they affected; and should add them together to see whether result greatest happiness. For this part you may also include the content of when time rise, location change, what is the consequence. You can also discuss the question from Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill’s perspective. You have to use additional resources or information about utilitarian, and apply them to the case.
3. For Kantian ethics, you have to talk about categorical imperative as well as three formulations. Three formulations are universal law, treat people as ends not only as means, and kingdom of ends. In addition, you may also mention the principle of autonomy, and could use other reference about Kantian.
4. For virtue ethics, you should mention list of virtues.
Instruction of the essay:
1. You must be addressing a business ethics issue, it should be a specific issue not a general and broad ethics issue such as low paid work.
2. The title for the essay should be of the form “Should…”, it must be specific.
3. The case should be from the past 3 years, but I prefer year 2016 or 2015 case.
4. Marking criteria of the essay:
Topic background and ethical issue (5/50)– The extent to which you have clearly explained the background to your topic and identified a clear and focused ethical issue.
Application of key ethical theories (15/50) – The extent to which you have used the key ethical theories to investigate the ethical issue you have identified. The extent to which you have applied the more sophisticated aspects of the theories and also utilised the relevant academic identified to add sophistication to your analysis. You are encouraged to use literature that you used in the summary of ethical theories assignment as well as literature that is of particular relevance to your topic.
Conclusions and recommendations (10/50) – The extent to which you have provided a logical conclusion based on your ethical analysis. The extent to which you have developed recommendations – e.g. ethical principles and/or policy recommendations – that would help address the ethical issue you have identified.
Writing style (5/50) – The extent to which the essay is free from bibliographical, grammatical and typographical errors. Marks will be deducted where the essay exceeds the word count by 5% or more.
One-page visual summary (5/50) – The extent to which you have provided a one-page summary which is visually appealing and reflects the key points of your essay.
Peer review comments (10/50) – The extent to which you have made appropriate and constructive comments on the essays which you reviewed as part of the peer-review process. Penalties will be deducted from this aspect of the assessment if you did not submit your draft essay or feedback comments on time. (This part is not related to essay writing!)
5. Preparation instructions
Your essay should be a maximum of 4,000 words including references. The suggested structure is: Introduction (1 page), utilitarian analysis (1.5 pages), Kantian analysis (1.5 pages), virtue ethics analysis (1.5 pages); conclusion (1.5 pages); one-page summary. Note that you are NOT required to restate the main points of the ethical theories.