BETHI 3201 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR BUSINESS

Department : BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (HONS) IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Course Name : BBA Individual
Semester : 9
Commence Date : 05-08-2013
Assignment
Deadline Date : 10-11-2013
Unit Controller / Examiner : MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN
Contact Number : 0167-4520861
E-mail (Office) : imran0987@cambriancollegebd.com

THE TASK

You are required read the case & answer the questions at the end of the case.

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QUESTIONS

1. What are sources of the factors, which created the ethical dilemma?

2. Is it ever appropriate to withhold negative information from the client?

3. What should ISI do?

4. What is meant by the term, industry practice? Is this an example of moral relativism?

5. In what level of Moral development is Jim Willis? His boss, Fred Ballard?

6. Would a code of ethics have prevented/resolved this ethical dilemma? What should be in a

code of ethics? What if ISI had a Code of Ethics which stated that proprietary information could

not be disclosed to anyone outside the company and allowed no exceptions?

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Students who submit the assignment later than the deadline date will be penalized 10
percent from the total marks awarded for the first day and 5 percent per day thereafter.
(Weekend or public holiday counts as one day). Late submission after the date of the
Board of Studies (BOS) meeting will not be accepted.
The report must be print out by using Microsoft Word Arial font style with size of 10 and
1 line spacing.

MARKING CRITERIA

Criteria Total Marks

Content

- Overall presentation & 2

structure
- Introduction 1
- Content 5
- Analytical Skills 2

Total 10

The following is the marks deduction for this individual assignment:

1. Late submission as stated above.

2. Not following question requirements = -0.5% is given as long as student do not follow
any of the question requirements.
3. Plagiarism = 0% is awarded immediately.
4. Let others copy your work = 0% is awarded immediately.
5. Off topic work = 0% is awarded immediately.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS

This is an individual assignment.

If there is too much collaboration from your common discussion by looking at other
students work, in such instances of academic dishonesty may result in you getting zero
marks for this piece of assignment.
If someone cheats by using your work, you will be penalized.
Do NOT let others see your work.
Do NOT e-mail your answer to anyone.

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