Provide the location and general information about the organization you are managing; identify the two issues you wish to address.

1200 Words Maximum (+/- 100 Words excluding references)
BACKGROUND
Imagine you are the new general manager coming into a hotel, resort, or accommodation setting such as a cruise ship. The aim of this paper is for you to examine two ethical issues in certain departments of the chosen hotel, resort, or cruise ship. The purpose is to describe two ethical issues in one department, or across departments, and why they are important to address. You will then assess each issue using ethical frameworks, concepts, and perspectives of your choice from the readings.
Keep in mind the key terms, ethical culture, ethical programs, and ethical climate. For each issue, you will provide a recommendation as to how to resolve the issue from a management perspective. These ethical issues can be small or large and can involve interactions with guests, other staff, the community, or with the organization and culture itself.
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DETAILS
Select a particular department in the accommodation sector (housekeeping, banquets, front desk, marketing and sales, operations, human resources, finance, security, etc.) in a particular country.
Select two ethical issues or dilemmas specific to the internal workings of the hotel, such as theft, greenwashing, inappropriate behaviour or harassment from guests to staff, or among staff, overbooking, wastage, price gouging, unethical marketing practices, supply chain sourcing, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual harassment, negative community/environmental impacts specific to the hotel, wage equity, emotional labour, child or sex trafficking specific to the hotel, ethical issues with the organizational culture, workload.
The structure of the paper is as follows:
Introduction
Provide the location and general information about the organization you are managing; identify the two issues you wish to address. Describe your ethical perspective, drawing on perspectives from the readings (200 words)
Issue 1- (400 words)
Explain the ethical issue impacts or the moral dilemma. Use ideas from the readings as needed
Provide a specific set of actions (3-4) and a process to address the matter
Issue 2 (400 words)
Explain the ethical issue impacts or the moral dilemma. Use ideas from the readings as needed
Provide a specific set of actions (3-4) and a process to address the matter
Conclusion
Explain a reasonable timeline to complete the task supported by literature (200 words)
Assignments are to be submitted in a Word document in the Assignment 3 Dropbox. Please ensure that your paper adheres to APA formatting rules and includes a title page, running head and reference page. A minimum of 8 academic sources is required for this assignment. (Please see the Overview of Assignments for what constitutes an academic source).
Assessment Rubric
0-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
90-100
Ethical perspective not explained and theory comprehension is poor or not completed
The quality of the explanation of the issues is poor and does not convey a comprehension of the issue
Solutions and explanations are not relevant, viable or supported by literature
More than half of the sources are not valid and reliable or do not comply with the guidelines
Written material is not overly coherent or complete
Text is not accurate in terms of spelling, grammar, and writing style (APA 7)
Ethical perspective explained to fair standard but theory comprehension is poor
The quality of the explanation of the issues conveys a limited comprehension of the issue
Most solutions and explanations are not relevant, viable or supported by academic literature
Issues with sources validity and reliability or do not comply with the guidelines
Written material is not overly coherent or complete
The text has major issues in terms of spelling, grammar, and writing style (APA 7)
Ethical perspective explained and theory comprehension satisfactory
The quality of the explanation of the issues is fair and conveys a basic comprehension of the issue
Some but not all solutions and explanations are relevant, viable or supported by academic literature
Sources are valid and reliable and comply with the guidelines with minor issues
Written material is coherent and complete with some issues
Text is accurate in terms of spelling, grammar, and writing style (APA 7) with some issues
Ethical perspective explained and accurately aligned with a theory with minor issues
The quality of the explanation of the issue conveys a good comprehension of the problem
Solutions and explanations are relevant, viable and supported by academic literature
Sources are valid and reliable and comply with the guidelines
Written material is coherent and complete with minor issues
Text is accurate in terms of spelling, grammar, and writing style (APA 7) with some issues
Ethical perspective explained and accurately aligned with a theory
The quality of the explanation of the issue conveys an advanced comprehension of the problem
All solutions and explanations are relevant, viable and supported by academic literature
Sources are valid and reliable and comply with the guidelines
Written material is coherent and complete
Text is accurate in terms of spelling, grammar, and writing style (APA 7)
Note the weight of this task will be:
10% APA and grammar
**20% Quality and accuracy of the ethical perspective and timeline
**30% Quality of explanation of both issues
**40% Quality of the solutions and relevance of both issues
Please note that the quality of sources is included as part of sections with a notation of **

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