This semester’s case study is about Carousell, which is a classifieds marketplace. Carousell states that their platform makes selling “as easy as taking a photo, buying as simple as chatting”. Launched in August 2012, Carousell began in Singapore and is now one of the world’s largest Carousell is the leading classifieds group in Greater Southeast Asia. Carousell’s mission to “make second-hand the first choice” has many positive aspects for sustainability
However, it appears students and other parties involved sell their university textbooks, essay notes, and even assignments on the basis that they are not writing an entire assignment. Under the section of “IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products, and services”, essay and paper mills; homework services are listed.
This has not stopped the sale of university materials, such as essays, lecture notes. In some instances, students have been caught because they have reused previous assignments. The use of assignments constitutes misconduct where students argue that these constitute “templates”. However, some students have not properly understood the appropriate use of “paraphrasing” of readings. Firstly, student reports are used without proper acknowledgment. Secondly, students are replacing or rewriting sentences without attempting to learn concepts, without linking themes in ways that are unique to their own intellectual analysis. These students who misuse assessments that they purchase are not discovering any concepts that are therefore constrained by what the template assignment contains.
This assessment intends for you to critically make case for how codes of conduct for companies may change due to the overlay of different perspectives of ethics. You are required to research the normative ethics theories covered in this course and to identify on the basis of Carousell’s business model, what their ethical obligations are with regard to the sale of assessments. Students should focus their research on ethics themes that can be drawn on to construct codes for business operations, such as deontology ethics and teleology ethics and virtue ethics. Students are encouraged to draw on the diverse number of theories under each perspective. You are to write your assignment, taking into consideration how an organisation’s code may differ, based on Virtue, Deontological and Teleological ethics perspectives that may inform CSR.
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Introduction
Ensure you introduce the concepts explored and what the reader will expect to find. Pay attention to this section as students often do not represent the value-add of their work.
Problem Identification – ethical problem
Students will be accessed on their ability to identify and craft a succinct, incisive and critically engaging statement of the nature of the ethical problem faced.
Research on Business Ethics Theories and CSR Theories
You should reflect on the feedback provided and the skills you gained from Assignment 1, and build your ability to reflect deeply on ethics literature.
Practical Application: Draft Code of Business Practice Codes
1. Students are to re-draft, or to provide an annex to the existing restricted business code, targeting the sale of student assessments or activities that may facilitate cheating.
2. Each amendment must be supported and based on ethics & governance theories and concepts covered in the module. You should cover why the different ethical perspective has resulted in a different ethical position with regard to the business’s obligations around use of its services. You should consider critical comparison with different perspectives.
Body of Report – Justifying the Different Perspectives of Business Practice Codes
Students may consider these points:
1. Businesses may operate regionally, does this need to be considered and how might this be informed by ethics theories?
2. Businesses may not be under any legislative obligation to develop codes for contract cheating. However, does this change when overlaid with an ethics and CSR perspective? If so, which perspective and how do they result in different considerations?
3. Is there a “right or wrong” approach, or does one approach result in a different outcome in terms of CSR?
Conclusions
What are the lessons that business should learn and how should they consider different ethics perspectives.
References
As stated, you are to use only scholarly resources, a minimum of 8 journal papers substantiating your augments. Non-scholarly sources will not contribute to a substantive academic argument.
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Students may be guided by the above points, but should not be tempted or drawn into a yes/no set of answers. Markers will grade on your ability to produce well-constructed arguments and flow of argumentative paragraphs, that are sustained with proper in-text citations to relevant readings.
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 8 academic references to support your argument.
