Assignment Title: Ethical Challenges – Stakeholder Expectations and Engagement
SCENARIO
You have been asked to produce a 3,000 word essay. The essay must critically analyse the ethical
challenges involved in a live case of your choice with a particular focus on stakeholder expectations
and engagement.
TASK
Critically analyse stakeholder expectations and engagement and the ethical challenges faced by a
given organisation.
GUIDANCE
Structure: Essay Format
You are required to decide on the appropriate structure and content but we should expect to see the
following elements:
Introduction: setting the context, addressing the question, the approach to answering the question
Main body of the assignment:
In respect of the live case you select:
critically analyse the ethical challenges involved,
critically analyse the related stakeholder expectations and the organisation’s
management of the ethical and sustainability issues,
demonstrate clear relevant theoretical underpinning and make reference to
relevant and reliable academic sources.
You should make use of academic referencing using Harvard style.
bring together your main points, make sure you have addressed the question and the
key points raised in your introduction
ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE
The essay should be approximately 3000 words (+/-10%) long
Refer to a “live” case which is current
It might be beneficial to refer to the same organisation you referred to in the first assignment
You must use concepts from the relevant lecture input.
You are required and expected to conduct independent research
Please make certain that you take account of a suitable balance of theory and practice in
your assignment and that you actually apply theory to practice
REPORT FORMAT
The following format is suggested as an example:
Title Page
Contents Page
Introduction (see above)
Task (see above)
References: for the references in your report it is essential that you use “Harvard”
referencing
Critically analyse stakeholder expectations and engagement and the ethical challenges faced by a
given organisation.
GENERAL ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Presentation, structure and referencing 15 %
Introduction 5 %
Critical analysis of the ethical challenges involved in the live case 40 %
Critical analysis of stakeholder expectations and engagement and management of stakeholders 30 %
Conclusion 10 %