BUS6012 Governance, Law and Ethics Case Analysis and Application Report Assessment Brief 2026 | Arden University

Useful terms:

Learning outcomes (LOs): The skills and knowledge that you should be able to show in your work.

Rubric/Marking matrix: A set of rules or guidelines used to grade or assess work. 

BUS6012 Task summary: 

This assignment requires you to choose and analyse two real-world business cases, focusing on the governance, law, and ethics problems they present. For the two cases you select, you will need to explain the main issues and discuss how they fit into the bigger picture, both within the original country where they happen and internationally. Further to task 1, you will discuss the challenges by examining the specific problems related to governance (the company corporate behaviour), ethics (what was right and/or wrong), and the law(what was right and/or wrong in the eyes of law). You alsoneed to look at how the organisations responded to these crises.

Then reflect on social responsibility by thinking about what duties these organisations have to society, both now and in the future, especially considering the incidents that occurred. Assignment instructions: For this task, you must produce a Case Analysis and Application Report. You are encouraged to discuss suitability of the chosen case with your module lecturer.

Task 1: Case analysis

For this assignment, you must choose two real-world business cases, discuss the issues and put them within a national and international context:

• Describe the key governance, legal, and ethical issues each organisation faced.
• Show how governance and legal principles apply in these cases.
• Explain how national and international contexts shaped these issues.

[Word count: 1,000 words]
25 marks

Task 2: Application Report

Building on the cases you selected in Task 1, critically evaluate the governance, legal, and ethical issues involved. Your report should:

• Analyse how governance structures and legal frameworks influenced the organisation’s actions.
• Assess the ethical implications of the organisation’s decisions and behaviours.
• Evaluate the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the chosen organisations.
• Provide clear, evidence-based recommendations for how the organisation could have acted differently or how it should act in future.

[Word count: 2000 words]

75 marks
(LOs: 2, 4 & 5)

Learning outcomes (LO)

By completing this assessment, you will have shown and be assessed on all five of the learning outcomes:

LO 1: Apply a range of corporate governance and legal principles to a variety of organisational contexts.
LO 2: Evaluate the key ethical and governance theories that impact organisations in a range of international jurisdictions.
LO 3: Diagnose legal, governance and ethical challenges in organisations.
LO 4: Evaluate the importance of corporate social responsibility.
LO 5: Responsible Global Citizen: Understand global issues and their place in a globalised economy, ethical decision-making, and accountability. Adopt self-awareness, openness, and sensitivity to diversity in culture.

You will be graded based on how well you meet these learning outcomes. Your marker will use a rubric/marking matrix to grade your work, and you can find this on the “My Assessment” tab on the module iLearn page.