Leading and Managing People
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Unit Name: Leading and Managing People
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Unit Code: SHR012-6
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Title of
Coursework: Assignment 2 -
Case Study:Business Ethics
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% weighting of
final unit grade: 40%
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The Case Study
Please read the following Case Study (which has been
anonymised, but which is based on a real-life example) and then respond to the
accompanying tasks in the form of a consultant’s report*.
Your company, Orion
Analytics (OA), is a UK-based companyoffering specialist services to Middle
East states. OAhas recently been
offered a contract with a GCC member state (‘the State’) to act as the
procurement services arm (‘Procurement Agency’ / PA) of the government for the next 10 years (including for
government – led services such as health, defence, and education).
The family see a successful PA as an essential stepping stone and commercial ‘bridge’ with
capitalist countries worldwide. A properly run PA would enable the State to diversify its economy away from oil
which is now providing diminishing revenues. It therefore wishes to base its
approach to business ethics in respect of how the PA operates in discharging its procurement functions with other
companies inside and beyond the State along lines which meet the ‘best
practice’ of countries elsewhere, for example in the UK and western Europe. In
that way the ruling family believe, much needed future inward investment in the
State will be generated.
The ruling family are well aware of ‘challenges’ when
dealing with procurement which previously led to embarrassing publicity in
discussions within the Majlis (the State’s representative assembly). Also, geographically
nearby are five countries currently in the world bottom ten for corruption. The
ruling family are worried the State will be compared negatively alongside those
already featuring at the bottom of this Worldwide Corruption Index; compilation
of which is overseen by the World Bank.
Although the king, who was educated at Eton in the UK,
is favourably disposed to OA and
would readily appoint them to run the new PA,
his son is more sceptical. The Crown Prince is aware of a number of ‘scandals’
affecting the UK in recent years which have caused him to doubt the UK as
representing a ‘gold standard’ regarding business ethics.
Before awarding the contract to OAtherefore, the ruling family have determined that the award will
be dependent on receipt and acceptance of a detailed Consultant’s Report which will
also be evaluated in due course by the World Bank on whom the State is already
increasingly reliant in stabilising its currency (AK), the Arabic Krona…
Your Tasks as Principal
Business Analyst for OA
Produce a consultant’s report of 1400 words (core focus is given in
italics below and read the following Assignment Guidance carefully also before
preparing your answer) which:
Task 1: Using research based on your
analysis of two recent business ethics ‘scandals’;analyse the potential risks that would affect the
new PA in terms of its accountability, transparency of operation and employee
ethical conduct.
Task 2: Develop an options assessment of how a suitable
ethical standard relating to accountability, transparency and employee
conduct is to be achieved by PA and
monitored in practice.
Task 3: Critically evaluate and justify the
sort of leadership model(taken from
your study of leadership within this Unit) and philosophy that would best
support a sustainable ethical organisation. Illustrate a
leadership management of change
initiative to remedy the unethical behavior / culture of one organisation
identified section 1 (i.e. using one only of the two ‘scandals’ identified in
Task 1). Link these lessons to conclusions and recommendations for the PA
organisation.
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