Business Values and Ethics SBS MBA / MSc Assignment

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Business Values and Ethics
SBS MBA / MSc
Assignment - Qatar 2020
STUDENT ID
UNIT TITLE / CODE: ___________________________________________________
NAME (in Full): ___________________________________________________
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
● All assignments are to be submitted 10thApril 2020 on to
[e-mail] cc
[e-mail],[e-mail]
● If assignment is not submitted on date, will follow with penalty of 10%
deduction of marks for everyday.
● Similarity between students work is strictly not accepted, any student
found with similar work will be graded Zero and fail for the course.
However, Plagiarism is an academic offence and will not be tolerated
underSBS
● Assignment once submitted to exam board is final formarking.
● Total 100marks
GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNMENT
1. If assignment is Question & Answer basedthen.
 Introduction is needed for eachquestion.
 Question has to be answered based on the mark allotted for each
question with references if any idea or information is taken from
othersource.
2. If assignment is case basedthen,
 Executive summary
 Table ofcontent
 Body of assignment (questions related to case need to beanswered)
 Conclusion / Recommendation ifany
 References (in-text + citation) to beused.
TotalMarks /100

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PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is a form of cheating, by representing someone else's work as
your own or using someone else's work (another student or author)
without acknowledging it with a reference. This is a serious breach of the
Academic Regulations and will be dealt with accordingly. Students found
to have plagiarised can be excluded from the program (Buys, Selander,
and Sun, 2019).
Plagiarism occurs whenever you do any of the following things without
acknowledging the original source:
 Copyinformationfromanysource(includingthestudyguide,books,newspaper
s,theinternet)
 Use another person's concepts or ideas
 Summarise or paraphrase another person's work (Foltýnek, Meuschke, and Gipp,
2019).
How do I avoid plagiarism?
To ensure you are not plagiarising, you must acknowledge with a reference
whenever you:
 use another person's ideas, opinions or theory
 include any statistics, graphs or images that have been compiled or
created by another person or organization
 Paraphrase another's written or spoken word (Masic, 2019).
What are the penalties?
The penalties for plagiarism are:
 Deduction ofmarks,
 A mark of zero for the assignment or the unit,or
 Exclusion from theprogram.
Plagiarism is dealt with on a case-by-case basis and the penalties will
reflect the seriousness of the breach.
Please note: claiming that you were not aware of need to reference is
no excuse.

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Answer any 5 from the below.
Each question
carries equal marks
Case Scenario I
You are running with a business since last many years. Over a period of time you
have very good corporate image in market. But unfortunately since last two
years your firm is passing through crisis. Your business is suffering from heavy
losses. You are planning to wind up your business. Meanwhile one big corporate
house has announced a big corporate deal through auction. You have also
decided to take part in that deal as it will be a last option for you to save your
business. On the day of auction, so many companies have participated for this
bid. Committee would declare the result after lunch break. You found the closed
envelope of your competitor’s bid during lunch break.
a) Will you be ethical in this situation? If yes how? And if no! Why?
In this scenario, I would assume that I'd see the competition offers as it's my only
opportunity to live. When my competitors offers allow me to save my company, I
would claim that is ethical for me because, according to the Theory of
Utilitarianism, the ethics centered on outcomes implies that a choice is ethical
that yields the best for the greater amount.
In that sense, I am saving myself, my family, and also many of the workers
working for my company, if my decision to get an auction lets me save my
business. If I fail and get up then I risk my company and may need to sell my
house and land in the storm.
b) If you be ethical, how you will survive your business.
I will save my business by having the lowest possible bid because I do not get
offers, but this choice leaves me in an incredibly slim role to sustain my business
when my organization is already facing a failure and social profile.
Therefore, I conclude that both concerns in this case have been addressed by my
A response (Kam, Hue, and Cheung, 2018).
Case Scenario II: Discrimination in the Workplace
Marian, a top graduate from Loyola in Humanities, was hired by a major
corporation into a management position. Marian finished the corporation's
management training program top in her group, and is performing above the
norm in her position. She is really enjoying her work.
As a woman she feels isolated, as there are no other women managers and few
women in her area. One night at a company party she heard a conversation
between two of her male co-workers and their supervisor. They were complaining
to him about Marian's lack of qualifications and her unpleasant personality. They