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APPLICATION OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Competency 3008.1.2: Ethical Leadership and Code of Ethics The
graduate identifies
influences on ethical leadership and analyzes a code of ethics.
Competency 3008.1.3: Policy and Program Development The
graduate develops policies,
practices, procedures, and programs that foster organizational ethics and socially responsible
behavior.
Compete ncy 3008.1.5 Legal and Regulatory Requirements The
graduate analyzes
applicable legal and regulatory requirements to determine whether organizations meet legal
responsibilities.
Task 3: Legal and Regulatory Requirements
Introduction:
As a leader in your organization, it is vital that you are familiar with the laws that regulate your
industry. Sparked by the dramatic corporate and accounting scandals of Enron, Arthur Andersen,
Adelphia and WorldCom, the SarbanesOxley
Act was implemented in 2002 in an effort to restore
confidence in the stock markets. SarbanesOxley
represents the most important securities
legislation since the original federal securities laws of the 1930s as it increased governmental
regulation and oversight of publiclytraded
companies and established protections for
whistleblowers. The False Claims Act and the DoddFrank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act provide a financial incentive for those who “blow the whistle” and report
fraudulent activity within their organization.
In this task, you will select and analyze an established company’s code of ethics, analyze how an
employee would raise an ethical concern within an organization, and consider the current laws
and US Sentencing Guidelines with respect to whistleblowers.
Scenario:
You are an experienced ethics officer who has recently been hired by an established company.
You have been tasked with analyzing the company’s current code of ethics, and identifying areas
in need of improvement.
Requirements:
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the
submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted
or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report
available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed
criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by
more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions
of the course.
Prepare a report (suggested length of 6–8 pages) in which you do the following:
A. Select an established company and analyze the company’s code of ethics by doing the
following:
Note: You should be able to find the company’s code of ethics on the company’s website or in
the company’s annual 10k report. Only use the code of ethics for part A.
1. Analyze whether the code of ethics is lacking in the area of corporate social responsibility.
2. Analyze whether the code of ethics is lacking in compliance with legal mandates.
a. Describe the implications of being noncompliant with legal mandates.
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b. Describe two legal or ethical safeguards your chosen company has in place or could
put into place.
Note: If the code of ethics is not lacking in these areas, you must explain why.
3. Analyze whether the code of ethics facilitates the development of an ethical culture.
4. Explain how an employee would raise an ethical concern in this company.
a. Describe three resources available to employees.
b. Discuss which resources you would most likely use.
5. Include the code of ethics you analyzed in part A by copying and pasting the code into a
separate document. Please include this document as a separate attachment.
B. Develop a policy that instructs employees how to address unethical conduct observed at work
by doing the following:
1. Discuss the factors an employee would need to consider before deciding to blow the
whistle about unethical conduct observed at work.
2. Describe the process the employee should follow if the employee decided to blow the
whistle.
C. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of paying whistleblowers
based on current laws
(i.e., the False Claims Act, DoddFrank
Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act, and the
SarbanesOxley
Act).
D. Analyze the impact the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines might have on an organization.
1. Discuss three culpability factors that are used to determine fines under the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines.
E. Acknowledge sources, using intext
citations and references, for content that is quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized.
F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Web Links:
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