focus is on the organization’s current structure as well as levers of control (both internal and external controls) available to you, the person in leadership or the consultant, as ethical decisions are made and implemented.

For reminders concerning the organization, the focus of the three papers required, and writing expectations, see the “General Introduction” provided for the first written assignment (Week 4).

Paper 2 Instructions

To Prepare

As in the first paper, use APA formatting.
A minimum of six peer-reviewed sources should be included. Sources used from paper one also may be used in this second paper. (Peer review sources do not include newspaper articles, websites produced by the organization you are considering, open-sourced references e.g., Wikipedia, etc.)
A title page and Reference list are to be part of this assignment, though these items are not included when considering the length of the paper.
The Assignment

Reintroduce your organization, ethical challenge you are addressing, and the philosophical principles and obligations which you have stated (in your first paper) that stakeholders must consider.
For leadership to lead an ethical organization, they must be aware of and understand how to use both internal and external controls. Discuss both types of controls that are at the disposal of your organization’s leadership, citing the Cooper text.
Identify current specific structures, controls, and/or policies essential to addressing the ethical dilemma upon which you are focused. For example, internally is there a hierarchical structure to your organization which can serve to help with decision-making? Is there a Board to which leadership is accountable? Externally, are there legal structures that (at least in theory) should ensure ethical decisions are being made (or, due to weaknesses in the structures, are these allowing unethical decisions)?
Considering what may be needed (future), what are the new internal structures, controls, and policies and/or procedures that you believe may be necessary to address the ethical challenge? How would you develop these new structures, controls, policies and/or procedures? What would be required to implement these changes? What needs to occur, external to the organization itself, to support the ethical decision (which you identified in paper #1) that is needed?