Option #1: Analysis of Unethical and Illegal Behavior

Option #1: Analysis of Unethical and Illegal Behavior

Option #1: Analysis of Unethical and Illegal Behavior

The text has provided an overview of laws and ethics and its importance for organizations. In the digital world we live in, ethical behavior is critical to the success and health of any organization. Any unethical or illegal behavior, even something small, can have devastating consequences. Using your readings from this week, answer the following questions for this week’s critical thinking activity.

What are the three general categories of unethical and illegal behavior? What is the best method for preventing unethical and illegal behavior?

Discuss and cite the assigned readings from the course and at least one additional credible or scholarly source to support your analysis and positions. The CSU Global Library is a good place to find scholarly sources. Your paper should be 4-6 pages in length with document and citation formatting per the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Review the Critical Thinking grading rubric, found in the Week 2 folder, to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.