Essay Instructions: (Title) BANKING FEES IN THE US
Term Paper Format, Outline, (including Utilitarian Ethical Model) and Grading
Rubric:
5015 Term Paper
Official Huizenga School Cover Page (with author certification statement(s))
Title to Paper: Integrating Values - The Legality, Morality, and Social
Responsibility of ____________
Table of Contents
I. Introduction (5% of paper grade)
A. Purposes of Paper
? Analytical paper - ?3 value? analysis of law, ethics, and social
responsibility
? Current, controversial, and narrowly focused topic involving business
directly or indirectly
? Significance of topic
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B. Background Information regarding topic
II. Legal Section (20% of paper grade)
A. Introduction to Legal Section
B. Statement of Relevant Legal Principles and Rules of Law
C. Application of Law to Topic and Legal Analysis
D. Legal Conclusion (and transition to Ethics Section)
III. Ethics Section (40% of paper grade as set forth below)
A. Utilitarian Ethical Analysis (20% of paper grade)
? Introduction (brief) to ethics as a branch of philosophy
? Introduction and brief explanation of Utilitarian theory
? See Cavico and Mujtaba Business Ethics text Chapter 7 for discussion of
Utilitarianism
? Stakeholder, pleasure v. pain, numerical model of Utilitarianism -
Utilitarian analysis as per required model (See required Utilitarian
model below)
? Moral conclusion pursuant to Utilitarian model
B. Kantian Ethical Analysis (10% of paper grade)
? Introduction and brief explanation of Kantian ethics
? See Cavico and Mujtaba Business Ethics text Chapter 8 for discussion
of Kantian ethics
? Statement of Kant?s Ethics Principle ? The Categorical Imperative
? Application of the Three Tests of the Categorical Imperative to topic
(Universal ?Law? Test; Kingdom of Ends Test; Agent-Receiver Test)
? Kantian Moral Conclusion
C. Additional Ethical Analysis (10% of paper grade)
? Selection by student(s) of additional third ethical theory for analysis
? See Cavico and Mujtaba Business Ethics text Part I for suggested ethical
theories
? Statement of ethical theory and key ethical principles
? Application of ethical theory and principles to topic and ethical analysis
? Moral Conclusion pursuant to additional third ethical theory
? Overall Conclusion to Ethics section as a whole (and transition to Social
Responsibility section)
IV. Social Responsibility Section (20% of paper grade)
A. Introduction to Social Responsibility section
B. Definition of term ?Social Responsibility? and formulation of definitionalprinciple
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C. Application of Social Responsibility definitional-principle to topic
D. Social Responsibility recommendations
E. Social Responsibility Conclusion
V. Conclusion (5% of paper grade)
A. Restatement of Major ?3 Value? Conclusions
B. Overall Conclusions, Personal Opinions, Recommendations, and Predictions
Bibliography (5% of paper grade)
? Research sources (six minimum; current; primary sources or ?strong?
secondary)
? APA style for sources and citations
Style (5% of paper grade)
? Consistency of style among sections
? Grammar, spelling, and punctuation
? Lucidity and ?flow? of writing
? Integration of paper
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The Utilitarian Ethical Model
In order to determine the morality of an action, practice, rule, or law pursuant to the
stakeholder, pleasure v. pain, numerical model of the ethical theory of Utilitarianism:
1. Accurately and narrowly state the action to be evaluated (e.g., Is it moral
for a particular company or organization to...?);
2. Identify all people and groups who are directly and indirectly affected by
the action (including the company's or organization?s constituent groups or
"stakeholders" as well as society as a whole);
3. Specify for each stakeholder group directly and indirectly affected all the
reasonably foreseeable good - pleasurable and bad - painful consequences
of the action, as far as into the future as appears appropriate, and consider
the various predictable outcomes, good and bad, and the likelihood of their
occurring;
4. For each stakeholder group, including society as a whole, measure and
weigh the total good consequences against the bad consequences, and
determine which predominates for each stakeholder group;
5. Quantify the good and bad consequences for each stakeholder group on a
numerical scale (-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0 +1, +2, +3, +4, +5) representing units
and extremes of pleasure and pain;
6. Sum up all the good and bad consequences assigned to the stakeholder
groups;
7. If the action results in an overall positive number, it produces more good
than bad, and is a morally right action; and if the action results in an
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overall negative number, it produces more bad than good, and is morally
wrong; based on this model of the Utilitarian ethical theory.
Bibliography for Utilitarian model: Cavico, Frank J. and Mujtaba, B.G. (2010).
Business Ethics: The Moral Foundation of Effective Leadership, Management, and
Entrepreneurship (Second Edition). Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson Custom Publishing.
