Homework
a. Define the legal environment that is applicable to the business world.
b. Review basic business law concepts
c. Describe the litigation system in the United States Apply legal concepts to business to business scenarios
d. Analyze the differences between major forms of intellectual property protection, and current ethical issues that arise under intellectual property law
e. Identify antitrust issues in business decisions
f. Analyze what a contract is, how a contract is formed, the types of law that govern contracts, the elements of common-law contract formation, and defenses to contracts
g. Identify various forms of business structure
h. Evaluate employment laws affecting business
i. Define ethical environment that is applicable to the business world.
j. Identify means to avoid alter ego liability
k. Evaluate how the Sarbanes Oxley Act applies to business.
Task
I. Identify your case study company.
For this homework, you are to choose your case study from one of three companies: Ford, Boeing, or Purdue Pharmaceutical. Simply state here the name of the company you have selected for your Research Paper.
II. Statement of ethical dilemma.
The company you have chosen to write about (no. 1 above) made a business decision -i.e., chose a course of action - which adversely affected others as well as the company. In making this decision, the company was faced with an ethical dilemma. As you have learned, an ethical dilemma is a conflict between alternatives where neither alternative is desirable. Choosing either one will compromise something. Each choice will have its downside: it could compromise ethics, cause ethical and/or legal problems, cause harm, raise difficult questions, or otherwise lead to an undesirable situation. Ideally, the decision maker would do both acts or neither, but he cannot. He has to choose, and can only choose, one. The dilemma is being confronted with these undesirable choices and having to choose one. (For examples of ethical dilemmas, see Bucaro, (2017). Required Reading).
i. In a single, well-crafted sentence, state the ethical dilemma that is presented in your chosen company's situation.
III. Ethical frameworks:
i. Identify and briefly define the ethical framework illustrated by your chosen company's decision.
ii. Identify and briefly define the ethical framework that you will argue you chosen company should have utilized to reach a different result in the situation.
IV. Recommendation. Identify at least one business practice as a lesson business management can learn from this case study.
V. References
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.