- Week 6 Assignment – Week 6 Assignment – Ethics and Compliance Programs
Resources
- From Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases, read “Case 9: The NCAA Has Many Balls in the Air”.
- Use Strayer Library to locate at least three academic resources for this assignment.
- Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
- Instructions
Write a 46 page paper in which you: - Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas.
- Support your response with one example from each of these schools’ scandals.
- Examine the principal ways in which the leadership of the NCAA contributed to the ethical violations of Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas.
- Support your response with one example from each of these schools’ scandals.
- Predict the key differences in the scenarios that occurred at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas if an effective ethics program was in place.
- Provide a rationale for your response.
- Postulate on two actions that the NCAA leadership should take in order to regain the trust and confidence of students and stakeholders.
- Recommend two measures that the HR departments of colleges and universities should take to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
- Provide a rationale for your response.
- This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: - Propose leadership actions and ethics program revisions to prevent ethics violations and regain stakeholder trust.
