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Your essay plan must consist of paragraphs of the following:

Introduction

1. Make a general statement about the topic

2. Provide background information

3. State the position you will argue for-your thesis statement

4. Mention the points you will cover in your essay scope of your essay

Body - developing your argument)

1. Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence

2. Develop each main idea by making e.g. comparisons and contrasts, using referenced explanations, examples, definitions etc.

3. Conclude by summarising or linking to the idea being discussed in the next paragraph.

Conclusion Restate your position/thesis statement

1. Sum up the main points made in each paragraph

2. Finish with a strong statement about the wider context

Pick 1 of the 2 topics

Topic 1-

Managers are often faced with the need to make ethical decisions affecting their organizations and both internal and external stakeholders. Assume you are a manager working in one of the largest online social networking corporations in the world. Your social media network has hundreds of millions of followers. A federal election is to be held in the next 12 months. You have just received a very lucrative financial offer from a campaign manager of one of the political parties. The campaign manager has offered to pay you tens of millions of dollars to circulate a series of fake news stories. The stories, originating from unspecified sources, will paint candidates from the opposition political party in a very negative light. In this unit we have discussed four ethical decision making rules. Please discuss these four ethical decision making rules. Choose   one of the four ethical decision making rules to explain your decision on whether or not to accept the offer from the campaign manager.

Topic 2-

Pick one successful and one unsuccessful organisation you are familiar with. Compare and contrast how top managers at these two organisations effectively and ineffectively utilised Fayol's four functions in their firms.

Hint: Please pick organisations that are well known. Please check your organisation with your tutor if you are unsure. Your tutor needs to be aware of your chosen organisation as your tutor is marking your paper. Please consult your tutor by week two (week beginning 6 March 2017).

Your essay must:

• contain an introduction, thesis statement, main contents section and a conclusion.
• be concise, clear and well edited. Your essay must conform to the structure discussed in the Communication Skills Centre High Flyer number 7.
• be fully referenced; at least EIGHT different sources of information (e.g. book, edited book, www, journal article from the full-text databases, current affairs magazine, newspaper). WWW references can contribute to a maximum of ONE-THIRD of the total number of reference sources utilised. The use of Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Journals is required. Online academic databases accessed through the library website such as Proquest DO NOT count as (www) internet references.
• The use of Wikipedia is NOT ALLOWED.
• use the Chicago version 16 referencing guide to acknowledge your sources of information (both in-text and in the reference list at the end).

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