OL 326 Milestone Two Social Environment of Business

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OL 326 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
The final project for this course is the creation of a case study
analysis and strategy proposal. In Milestone Two, submit Section II:
Analysis of Social
Responsibilityand
Section III: Ethical Decision-Makingof the final project.
The purpose of this project is to analyze and critique an organization
based on what is expected within a corporate strategy in regard to social
responsibility.
Prompt:Submit Sections II and
III of the final project, which are the analysis of social responsibility
and ethical decision making.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be
addressed:
II.
Analysis of Social Responsibility.In
this part of the project, you will begin your analysis of the case study,
examining how the strategy plan of theorganization in the case study
considers social responsibility.
a) Analyze
the organization’s strategy plan for compliance with the current
acceptable standards or norms relative to social responsibility today.
b) Analyze
the organization’s strategy plan for any gaps in social responsibility that
might be potential risks to internal and external stakeholders.
c) Predict
the potential positive and negative impacts to internal and external
stakeholders regarding social responsibility that would result from the
strategy plan. In other words, what might happen to the employees and/or people
involved in the company regarding social responsibility from this strategy plan?
You could consider both the present and future impacts.
d)
Critique the evolution of strategy
planning related to social responsibility within the organization. In other
words, what may have influenced the evolution of strategy planning related to
social responsibility unique to this organization?
e)
Explain how this organization is or is not consistent
with regard to social responsibility when compared within its own industry and
when compared to outside industries. Be sure to justify your response.
III.
Ethical Decision-Making. In
this part of the project, you will continue your analysis of the case study,
examining how the strategy plan of the organizationconsiders ethics in
decision-making processes.
a)
Analyze the organization’s strategy plan for decision-making
processes that it employs. In other words, based on the strategy plan, how
does the organization make decisions?
b)
Explain how aspects of ethics were
considered in the decision-making processes of the organization. In other
words, what were the ethical considerations related to social responsibility in
the decisions made by the organization? You could consider the connection
between ethics and organizational decision making and how ethics influence
those decisions.
c)
Analyze the organization’s strategy plan for
any gaps in the decision-making process that could be considered
potential risks to internal and external stakeholders.
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Rubric
Guidelines for Submission:Your
paper must be submitted as a 3–4page Microsoft Word document with double
spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three
sources cited in APA format.
Instructor
Feedback:This activity uses an integrated rubric in
Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more
information,review these instructions.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Analysis of Social	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Does not analyze the organization’s	15
Responsibility:	plan for compliance with current	plan for compliance with current	strategy plan for compliance with
Compliance	acceptable standards or norms relative	acceptable standards or norms relative	current acceptable standards or norms
	to social responsibility today	to social responsibility today, but	relative to social responsibility today
		analysis is cursory
Analysis of Social	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Does not analyze the organization’s	10
Responsibility: Potential	plan for any gaps in social responsibility	plan for any gaps in social responsibility	strategy plan for any gaps in social
Risks	that might be potential risks	that might be potential risks, but	responsibility that might be potential
		analysis is cursory or inappropriate	risks
Analysis of Social	Predicts the potential positive and	Predicts the potential positive and	Does not predict the potential positive	10
Responsibility: Positive	negative impacts regarding social	negative impacts regarding social	and negative impacts regarding social
and Negative Impacts	responsibility that would result from	responsibility that would result from	responsibility that would result from
	the strategy plan	the strategy plan, but prediction is	the strategy plan
		cursory or inappropriate
Analysis of Social	Critiques how the strategy planning	Critiques how the strategy planning	Does not critique how the strategy	10
Responsibility:	related to social responsibility has	related to social responsibility has	planning related to social responsibility
Evolution	evolved within the organization in	evolved within the organization in	has evolved within the organization in
	response to internal and external	response to internal and external	response to internal and external
	influences	influences, but critique is cursory or	influences
		inappropriate
Analysis of Social	Explains how this organization is or is	Explains how this organization is or is	Does not explain how this organization	10
Responsibility:	not consistent with regard to social	not consistent with regard to social	is or is not consistent with regard to
Consistent	responsibility compared within their	responsibility compared within their	social responsibility compared within
	own industry and outside industries	own industry and outside industries,	their own industry and outside
		but explanation is cursory or	industries
		inappropriate
Ethical Decision-	Analyzes the strategy plan of the	Analyzes the strategy plan of the	Does not analyze the strategy plan of	15
Making: Decision-	organization for the decision-making	organization for the decision-making	the organization for the decision-
Making Process	processes that are employed	processes that are employed, but	making processes that are employed
		analysis is cursory

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Ethical Decision-	Explains how aspects of ethics were	Explains how aspects of ethics were	Does not explain how aspects of ethics	10
Making: Ethics	considered in the decision-making	considered in the decision-making	were considered in the decision-making
	processes of the organization	processes of the organization, but	processes of the organization
		explanation is cursory or inappropriate
Ethical Decision-	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Analyzes the organization’s strategy	Does not analyze the organization’s	10
Making: Gaps	plan for any gaps in the decision-making	plan for any gaps in the decision-making	strategy plan for any gaps in the
	process that could be potential risks	process that could be potential risks,	decision-making process that could be
		but analysis is cursory or inappropriate	potential risks
Articulation of	Submission has no major errors related	Submission has major errors related to	Submission has critical errors related to	10
Response	to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,	citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or	citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
	or organization	organization that negatively impact	organization that prevent
		readability and articulation of main	understanding of ideas
		ideas
			Total	100%