Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics: A Comprehensive Analysis

Running Head: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS 1
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS 2
Table of contents:
Question 1: Ethical theories and commissioning of student essays...........................................3
Question 2: CSR theories and Online Gambling........................................................................5
Question 3: Stakeholders Issues in fair trade.............................................................................8
Question 4: Personal Impacts and Future trends in CSR.........................................................10
Reference list:...........................................................................................................................12
Appendices:..............................................................................................................................15
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Question 1: Ethical theories and commissioning of student essays
Critical analysis of the theories which can be used for the argument against the purchase of
the essays and the dissertations by the university students
Plagiarism refers to the wrongful appropriation as well as stealing of someone else’s work
and representing them as one’s original work. The practice is very common in the education
sector where the students these days employs a third party for the completion of their essays
and dissertations and submit them as their own work. The essay mills are considered to be
fuelling plagiarism in universities and other colleges in which they allow the customers to use
their original piece of writing that leads to the commitment of an academic fraud as
plagiarism is an academic offence. Using the essay mills papers by the students and
submitting in the name of their own bring unethical controversies where some people view
that essay mills are unethical while some favours it as completely moral. Using the essay
mills for the assignment and dissertations by the students is a form of plagiarism because the
students are taking credit for others works. The story of essay mills plagiarism can be related
to the utilitarianism theory in order to evaluate the ethical validity of the practice (Rogerson,
2018).
One can seem from the University point of view and the other can be seen from the student
point of view. When it is seen from the university point of view it can be used as the term that
they are not able to get the proper assignments and most of the assignments are plagiarised
and thus, they are not able to make the students learn what they are going to learn from the
universities and colleges and other IVY colleges. Therefore, it is one of the most prevalent
and time effective methods for the students in order to complete the assignment. Furthermore,
they are able to get the quality assignment done by the experts and professionals all around
the world.
As per Riley (2010), utilitarianism theory states that best action is the one that maximizes the
utility which can be defined in various ways mostly associated with the wellbeing of the
sentient entities. As per the principles of the theory, morally right action is that action that
produces the most good. Plagiarism does not hold moral ground and philosophical sense but
plays more of utilitarian role within the specific professional sectors. In many of the
industries producing content is a business model with the means of attracting readerships,
subscriptions, and revenue. Plagiarism can be referred as a direct attack on the business
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models. The practice of using the others content at own name harms the integrity of the
publisher content. The use of essay mills by the students are appropriate and moral as per the
theory of utilitarianism as the theory reflect that a person act is morally right in case it
produces good results in the specific situation. Universities consider it cheating while most of
the students rely on these communities in order to get thousands of assignment and essays. If
the same concept is seen from the student point of view it can be seen that the students are
able to get the proper assignment and readymade assignments from the market without hard
work. The amount of study that the study goes through in their college and university life, it
becomes tough for the students that they are able to manage the proper time for completing
the assignments (Crane and Matten, 2018)
The use of essay mills are considered as unethical by many of the educational professionals
but as per the facts by the utilitarianism, the essay mills are not violating the laws and holds
the copyright of the papers and the papers are licensed to be used by the students. In spite of
the students, the mills can make the student legally responsible if the students redistribute the
papers to other without their permission. Hence it can be said that in accordance with the
principles of the utilitarianism theory, the students can use the essay mills for obtaining the
assignments and submit as of their own.
It is also seen that use of essay mills is a new threat to the academic integrity as students
cribbing large pieces of an assignment from the third parties and present as their own. On the
basis of the deontological ethical theories, the morality of the action can be judged based on
the rules. It is due to the fact that rules bind a person to the duty. If the case of the use of
essay mills for obtaining academic assignments and dissertations relates with the deontology
ethical theory then it can be said that the practice of plagiarism by obtaining assignments
from the third parties is absolutely wrong as plagiarism is an offence. This ethical theory
focuses on the rightness and wrongness of a particular action and measures the consequences
on the basis of the actions implemented to bring out the result (Bühler, et. al. 2018).
According to the standards of the theory, the act of using essay mills for the completion of the
assignments given by the universities is a form of cheating despite its positive consequences
for the students. It is due to that one person cannot take create of others work especially if the
work is academic in nature. Also, the writers of many of the essay mills are not well qualified
and do not have graduate degrees so that students should not completely rely on the third
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