Assessing Ethical Business Issues and Challenges in the Global Business Environment

This assignment requires you to assess ethical business issues and challenges within the global business environment linking to corporate social responsibility and professionalism, and to reflect on your learning from the module and produce a CPD plan.

1. Locate and evaluate resources relating to business codes of doing business in a moral and ethical way;
2. Explore an aspect of professional practice in more depth;
3. Reflect on your understanding of the core elements of operating in a professional way;
4.Construct a CPD plan. 

Part A – Report

Choose one contemporary ethical challenge facing the global business environment today from the module, and prepare a report that;

1. Introduces and defines the issue/challenge chosen(for example CSR, Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Environment, Corruption, Human Rights, Working Conditions; give a definition and examples of how the issue/challenge affects companies and how companies affect the issue both positively and negatively e.g. what are companies doing to help eradicate the issue?, how are companies adding to the problem?)
   
   
2. Explains the codes of conduct that can assist in resolving / addressing the issue
   (using relevant Codes of Conduct from your research, explain what the Code suggests to do to improve the situation for both a company, communities and individuals).
   
   
3. Discusses the support and guidance available from the relevant Professional Bodies (identify which Professional Body Organisation(s) is best suited to aiding companies deal with the issue you have chosen, and explain why they are the most suitable organisation, you will also need to explain the support and advice that they offer organisations).
   
   
4. Concludes with an assessment of the likely impact both the support and codes of conduct could have on the issue (identify the most likely positive and negative impacts that the Code of Conduct and Professional Body support can have on the issue from the perspective of the community and the company).

Part B – CPD Plan

Upon completion of the report, complete the attached template for a CPD plan, ensuring that you give details of what you have learnt from the module, how your learning will impact further studies and future career, and create SMART objectives to action the learning that has taken place with regards to business ethics.