BUSI3006 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
2022 - 2023 (Semester 2)
Business Ethic Project: Co-Learning of New Ethical Issues in the Digital World
This is a co-learning project, meaning students are responsible to share and reflect your learning
on one business ethics topic with the class so that we could all learn something from each other
outside our own discipline.
A topic will be assigned to each group of not more than 5 students.
Each group is required to present their findings in week 6 & week 7
Your Tasks:
We are living in a digital world with many new technologies, new way of living and new business
ethical issues. Co-learning is a very effective approach that we learn and share knowledge among
each other. The group project is designed to let each group to work on a relevant domain
knowledge topic and share your findings with your classmates.
Part 1
(5-8 mins)
Introduce the topic knowledge to the class from secondary research. Find out
everything you could about the topic.
Topic
Part 2
(8-10 mins)
What is the topic about?
What technology is it?
What are the intended value and benefit within the business
context?
§ What are some of the examples in business application?
Stakeholders § Identify the key stakeholders
§ Why the stakeholders are important in terms of power,
legitimacy, and urgency?
§ Why the relationships between the stakeholders are
sometimes difficult to balance?
Identify the ethical dilemma(s) – situations of right and wrong:
§ What is the most common business ethical issues arising from this topic?
§ What makes the issues very difficult to judge right or wrong?
Apply normative and descriptive theories in the situations of right and wrong
§ What is the right decision to make?
Reflections of learning in business ethics.
Business Ethics Co-learning Project
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Below is a table showing the relevant topics to each major study:
Topics
1
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Business application
2
Robotic application in real life
3
Facial recognition & big data collection in retail (online/offline)
4
NFT (Non-fungible token) in business application
5
Metaverse in Marketing
6
Impact investment & impact venture: new investment trend
7
Bitcoin & other cryptocurrency businesses & trading
8
Fintech in Banking and Finance
9
Other proposed topic (to be approved)
Marking Scheme:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Topic research breadth, depth, knowledge easy to understand
Stakeholders’ analysis
Ethical dilemma(s) identification and theories application reflection
Presentation, documentation and references
20%
20%
50%
10%
Documentation & Submission:
Group project’s POWERPOINT file to be submitted on Moodle within 3 days after your group
presentation. (marks will be deducted according to the time stamp in Moodle submission)
Business Ethics Co-learning Project