GECSR Assessment Brief: You are required to undertake an ethical analysis of a corporation of your choice

GECSR Assessment Brief

You are required to undertake an ethical analysis of a corporation of your choice. The analysis should take the form of a critical assessment of the corporation’s ethical performance through an application of ethical theories/frameworks relating to e.g. responsibility, sustainability, governance and ethical leadership.

You should ethically analyse at least two themes or issues concerning the corporation’s policies and/or operations. These themes can be directly related – e.g. examining i) the corporation’s leadership and ii) the corporation’s internal working conditions; or they can focus on different aspects of the corporation’s operations – e.g.
i) conditions in its supply chain and ii) the corporation’s attitude and behaviour with regard to paying tax on profits.

You should consider and apply at least two ethical theories/frameworks for each theme and should ensure that that you do not use the same theories/frameworks for both themes.

The structure for the analysis should be:

Introduction – 500 words Theme/issue 1 – 1000 words
Theme/issue 2 – 1000 words
Conclusions & Recommendations – 1000 words List of References/Bibliography.

The final section is for you to make recommendations as to how your chosen business/corporation can improve its ethical performance. It is not necessary to write separate conclusions and recommendations. You should present your recommendations as following logically from your conclusions. You should provide at least one recommendation for each theme/issue.

The recommendations should be based within relevant ethical theories/frameworks. However, you can also draw on recommendations made in existing reports, articles and texts. As 20% of the available marks for the assessment are available for the recommendations, you should ensure that when you draft your analysis that you leave sufficient words for the final section.

The analysis should also be informed and supported by the use of reliable and referenced evidence about the corporation’s policies and operations with regard to the two themes. This evidence should be taken from authoritative and reliable sources –
e.g. academic articles, authoritative mainstream media or business sources, established dedicated consumer organisations, reliable online environmental organisations. The use of AI to generate evidence is not permitted.
We strongly recommend that you put together an assessment plan and submit your plan to your tutor for written feedback.