What is competitive intelligence

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Overview

This week begins our discussion of corporate responsibility by introducing the basics, including ideas such as ethics, the role of stakeholders, and organizational compliance with laws and regulation.  However, to really have a sound foundation for ethical decisions, we have to have an understanding of how our worldview influences the decisions we make and how we perceive reality.

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyze the stakeholder concept of corporate responsibility, including the relative roles and impact of primary and secondary stakeholders.
  • Explain how business exercises social responsibility in response to public issues.
  • Compare and contrast various ethical approaches to social responsibility and evaluate the application of Christian values within a secular corporate context.

 

Discussion Board Forum 1 Thread

Topic: Choose 1 of the following questions and answer it completely and thoroughly for your thread:

 

  • Discuss why a manager should, or should not, be considered a stakeholder. Justify your reasoning with a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (ch. 1)

 

  • Describe a public issue and how it has evolved through the public issues life cycle. Justify your reasoning with a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (ch. 2)

 

  • What is competitive intelligence? Why is it important to the public affairs function? Justify your reasoning with a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (ch. 2)

 

  • Define and provide an example of a business practicing enlightened self-interest. Justify your example with a minimum of 2 scholarly references and 1 business article. (ch. 3)

 

  • How can a company focus on the needs of its stakeholders without neglecting its shareholder obligations? Justify your reasoning with a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (ch. 3)

 

  • Compare and contrast ethical egoist behavior with altruism.  Discuss the issues that arise when a manager exhibits these traits in an organization?  Justify your reasoning with a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (ch. 5)

 

 

Discussion Board Instructions

 

The purpose of your discussion board forums are to create an atmosphere that you and your classmates can have some meaningful reflection and application on what is being learned in your course. You will have 4 discussion boards in which you will discuss different aspects of your reading.

 

It is important for you to remember:

 

For your thread:

  • You will contribute meaningful, lively discussion posts in answers to one of the assigned questions in each forum.
  • Every initial thread should be between 500–650 words and must contain real business examples from reputable business sources, include research from:
    • 2 scholarly sources,
    • Incorporate major ideas from the chapter of the textbook:

Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy 16th Edition

(ISBN: 978-1260043662)

    • Integrate biblical ideas into the analysis
  • To focus on specific points of application for corporate responsibility. You should not speak in vague terms while answering the questions.
  • Please refer to the “Guidelines for Use of Sources” document found with the Discussion Board instructions and rubric to make sure you understand how to recognize a scholarly source.

 

You will be submitting your discussion board thread in 2 areas:

  1. In the actual discussion board area (not as an attachment), and;
  2. As an attachment submitted through SafeAssign (which is a plagiarism program). There is a separate SafeAssign link for discussion board thread and response post for each week.  Failure to submit via SafeAssign will result in a zero on the assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your replies:

  • You will reply to 2 classmates. Every reply should meet the word requirements on the rubric and should advance the conversation further by providing new ideas and insights, asking probing questions that get to the heart of critical issues, and share from one’s personal and professional experience.  For the purposes of citations, every reply must include:
    • A minimum of 3 references (per reply)
    • At least 2 of the 3 references from a scholarly article
    • At least 1 of the 3 references from a relevant business article (any article from a reputable business source—website, magazine, book, etc.—that discusses a relevant business/ethical issue)
  • Remember to provide new ideas, research, and analysis that create a clear dialogue with your classmate’s ideas.  Go beyond providing basic definitions to topics being discussed—that is information that should have been provided in the original post.  Your replies should not read as just another thread, nor should it merely regurgitate and restate what your classmate has said, or what you said in your own thread from the week before, for that matter.
  • Please refer to the “Guidelines for Use of Sources” document found with the Discussion Board instructions and rubric to make sure you understand how to recognize a scholarly source.
  • Failure to use all required sources will significantly impact your grade.

 

You will be submitting your discussion board responses in 2 areas:

  1. In the actual discussion board area (not as an attachment)
  2. And as ONE attachment submitted through SafeAssign (which is a plagiarism program). BOTH response posts must be submitted in one Word document into SafeAssign.  There is a separate SafeAssign link for discussion board thread and response post for each week. Failure to submit via SafeAssign will result in a zero on the assignment.

 

APA guidelines must be followed, but no title page, running head, or abstract page is needed, and references can be listed right below each post.

The criteria mentioned above are more about the spirit of the law. If you apply these criteria, you will do well. Minimal contributions will be graded accordingly. For more information on grading, view the Discussion Board Grading Rubric.

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