Assessment Task Details

Ethics and Governance Officer, CorpCo: Analysis of Greg Mortimer Cruise Ship Case

Assessment task details

You are an ethics and governance officer working for a listed corporation CorpCo. The board of CorpCo has asked for a briefing paper to be prepared on one of the two cases (select one from the two listed below) for tabling at the next meeting of the company’s board of directors.

In the paper you are required to outline and then analyse the case using the concepts and ideas outlined in  Gioia 1993; Husted 1993, Jones & Ryan 1998, Victor & Cullen 1998 and Monahan & Quinn 2008; Mitchell et al 1997 and other references to course and assessment task 1 literature, theory, concepts, and further research . Explore the interaction between organisational context and the issue (moral intensity, moral language and framing) then and then address the following questions.

1. What role does organisational schemas/scripts/moral language/ethical work climates play in ethical decision making within this case?

2. How can unethical/poor decisions be avoided?

3. Are ethical leadership, codes and training adequate responses to preventing similar problems at CorpCo or does the board need to do more? Critically discuss with reference to course and assessment task 1 literature, theory, concepts, and further research.

Board members gain a great deal of information about the decisions they need to make through the papers they receive prior to a board meeting. Board papers are often prepared by non-board members. Papers cover a variety of functions, ranging from providing general information to a call for action.  Section 180 of the Australian Corporations Act 2001 outlines that directors have a statutory duty of care to have read the board papers to be able to contribute effectively to board meetings.

You are required to formulate an argument, undertake research to locate academic references, and support your argument with theories covered in this course.

You are also required to table recommendations for the board to consider based on your analysis of the issue, including future action and possible barriers (these must be theory driven/evidence based).

To formulate your argument, you are required to undertake research to locate academic references using online databases (e.g. EBSCO, Proquest, Emerald, Science Direct etc). You must to use at least 12 academic references to support your argument

Topic 2: Greg Mortimer Cruise Ship

In 2020 Covid19 has rocked the Globe. The board would like a board paper with recommendations on the Greg Mortimer Cruise Ship case. Explore the interaction between organisational context and the issue (moral intensity, moral language and framing) then and then address the following questions.

1. What role does organisational schemas/scripts/moral language/ethical work climates play in ethical decision making within this case?

2. How can unethical/poor decisions be avoided?

3. Are ethical leadership, codes and training adequate responses to preventing similar problems at CorpCo or does the board need to do more? Critically discuss with reference to course and assessment task 1 literature, theory, concepts, and further research.  Whilst you have to choose and make a judgement as to what concepts are appropriate, you do have to include some discussion of the role of stakeholder salience (Mitchell et al 1997).