How ethics have played a part in your professional life

Context
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to begin to explore how ethics have played
a part in your professional life. You will have the opportunity to focus on one situation and
analyse it from a range of ethical perspectives with the aim of understanding:
(a) how ethics is part of your day-to-day professional practice, and
(b) how your current thinking about ethical issues influences your professional practice.
You will develop the skill to identify and describe an ethical issue, articulate the various
choices you have available to you and discuss how you determine what actions you should
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take. You will also develop your written skills by presenting a coherent description of an event,
demonstrating the capacity to reflect on your behaviour.
The assignment will help you to develop an ‘ethical mindset’ when making workplace
decisions and learn to identify the ethical frameworks that inform those decisions.
Instructions
This Reflection should be around 500 words. It should include:
 A very short description of a workplace event where you had to make an ethical
decision (150 words).
(Examples of the type of event you might write about will be discussed in class).
 A reflection on how you made the decision to act in the way you did (250 words).
The following questions might help your reflection:
o What alternative actions did you consider?
o Why did you choose one action rather than another?
o What factors did you consider in making the choice?
 Identification of two ethical frameworks (chosen from the 6 frameworks discussed in
Module 2.1), that could have helped you with your ethical decision. These should
include reference to two relevant reliable sources that are not part of the subject
resources and a brief description of their content (100 words).
o You simply need to identify the two frameworks, not describe them. Descriptions of
the frameworks can be found in module 2.1.
Format
Your format should follow the three sections above.
It should include appropriate academic referencing and a reference list following the APA 6th
edition style of referencing. Please see the Academic Skills page on Blackboard for
information on referencing in APA 6th go to:
https://laureateau.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_20163_1
&content_id=_2498849_1
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Preparation for this assessment should include:
• reading all the course materials for modules 1 and 2.1, and
• undertaking research to relevant reliable references
The Grading Rubric (pp. 3-6) is your guide to how your assessment will be marked. Please
be sure to check this rubric very carefully before submission.

Submission Instructions
(week 4) via in
the main navigation menu in MGT301A: Ethics and Sustainability. The learning facilitator will
provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal. Feedback can be viewed in My
Grades.