1. Meredith is a devout, evangelical Christian. She believes very deeply that she should tell everyone that she meets about her religion and that she should try to convert everyone that she meets to her religion. To accomplish those goals, Meredith tells everyone that she has contact with to “have a blessed day.” Since Meredith is the receptionist at Big City Flooring Company, everyone who comes into the business is greeted by Meredith with “have a blessed day.” Several customers of Big City Flooring Company have told Bill Big, the owner of Big City Flooring Company, that they are uncomfortable when Meredith tells them to “have a blessed day,” and those customers have asked Bill Big if there is some way that they can continue to deal with Big City Flooring Company without having to encounter Meredith. Bill Big has told those customers that he will talk to Meredith. Can Bill Big tell Meredith not to greet customers by saying “have a blessed day” or something similar? Will limiting Meredith’s expression of her religious beliefs constitute religious discrimination in employment? What sort of accommodations does Bay City Flooring Company have to make for Meredith’s religious beliefs? Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length. 2. Robert’s father was an American and a citizen of the United States, and Robert’s mother was a citizen of Great Britain. Robert was born in Great Britain, so he had dual citizenship – United States and Great Britain. When Robert became an adult, he renounced his United States citizenship, reaffirmed his citizenship in Great Britain, and began living in England. Later, Robert moved to the United States and became a resident alien of the United States and began work as a computer programmer. Robert applied for a job with a new and fast-growing Internet start-up company on the West Coast, but during the interview process, Robert mentioned that he had renounced his United States citizenship but that he was now a resident alien in the United States. The interviewer told Robert that Robert’s citizenship situation was troubling, and Robert was not offered the job. Was the refusal to hire Robert because of his citizenship situation a violation of the prohibition of discrimination in employment based on national origin in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act? Are there other laws that prohibit this employer from discriminating in employment against Robert? What are those laws? Do these laws apply in this case? Why, or why not? Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length. 3. A nursing home in Iowa, whose residents were all English-speakers and all over the age of 80, instituted a rule that required that all employees speak English while working since the residents of the nursing home were elderly and not able to understand any language other than English. Several of the employees of the nursing home were Latino and spoke Spanish fluently. The nursing home informed all employees, both verbally and in wr ...

1. 1. Meredith is a devout, evangelical Christian. She believes
very deeply that she should tell everyone that she meets about
her religion and that she should try to convert everyone that she
meets to her religion. To accomplish those goals, Meredith tells
everyone that she has contact with to “have a blessed day.”
Since Meredith is the receptionist at Big City Flooring
Company, everyone who comes into the business is greeted by
Meredith with “have a blessed day.” Several customers of Big
City Flooring Company have told Bill Big, the owner of Big
City Flooring Company, that they are uncomfortable when
Meredith tells them to “have a blessed day,” and those
customers have asked Bill Big if there is some way that they
can continue to deal with Big City Flooring Company without
having to encounter Meredith. Bill Big has told those customers
that he will talk to Meredith.
Can Bill Big tell Meredith not to greet customers by saying
“have a blessed day” or something similar? Will limiting
Meredith’s expression of her religious beliefs constitute
religious discrimination in employment? What sort of
accommodations does Bay City Flooring Company have to make
for Meredith’s religious beliefs?
Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length.
2. Robert’s father was an American and a citizen of the United
States, and Robert’s mother was a citizen of Great Britain.
Robert was born in Great Britain, so he had dual citizenship –
United States and Great Britain. When Robert became an adult,
he renounced his United States citizenship, reaffirmed his
citizenship in Great Britain, and began living in England. Later,
Robert moved to the United States and became a resident alien
of the United States and began work as a computer programmer.
Robert applied for a job with a new and fast-growing Internet

2. start-up company on the West Coast, but during the interview
process, Robert mentioned that he had renounced his United
States citizenship but that he was now a resident alien in the
United States. The interviewer told Robert that Robert’s
citizenship situation was troubling, and Robert was not offered
the job.
Was the refusal to hire Robert because of his citizenship
situation a violation of the prohibition of discrimination in
employment based on national origin in Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act? Are there other laws that prohibit this employer
from discriminating in employment against Robert? What are
those laws? Do these laws apply in this case? Why, or why not?
Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length.
3. A nursing home in Iowa, whose residents were all English-
speakers and all over the age of 80, instituted a rule that
required that all employees speak English while working since
the residents of the nursing home were elderly and not able to
understand any language other than English. Several of the
employees of the nursing home were Latino and spoke Spanish
fluently. The nursing home informed all employees, both
verbally and in writing, of the English-only rule and gave verbal
and formal, written warnings to several of the Latino employees
who were overheard by management speaking Spanish in the
presence of residents of the nursing home. After several such
warnings, the nursing home discharged Catalina for continuing
to speak Spanish in the presence of residents after she had been
given several warnings not to speak Spanish while she was
working.
Did the discharge of Catalina for the reason given constitute
national origin discrimination? Why, or why not? What factors
must be considered in deciding whether an employer can legally
require that only English be spoken by employees while

3. working?
Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length.
4. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits
Congress from making any laws with respect to the
establishment of religion or that interfere with the free exercise
of religion. It is generally agreed that the provisions of the First
Amendment apply to all levels of government. The United
States Supreme Court has recently ruled that Christian prayers
that are said at the beginning of meetings of elected officials
local governments do not violate the provisions of the First
Amendment that prohibit government from establishing a
religion.
Paul is an employee of a local government and is required to
attend meetings of the elected officials of the local government,
but Paul is an atheist and objects to the Christian prayers that
are always said at the beginning of the meeting. Therefore, Paul
has asked his supervisor if he can join the meetings of local
elected officials after the prayers are offered, but Paul’s
supervisor has told Paul that out of respect for the elected
officials, Paul must attend the entire meetings. Has Paul been
discriminated against on the basis of his religion? Why, or why
not?
Your response should be a minimum of 200 words in length.
Newspaper Article Scrapbook — February 2, 2016 ― 10%
Your task is to compile a scrapbook of 5 newspaper articles
related to Ethical Responsibilities of Organizations. The articles
should be from major newspapers and can be from either a
physical newspaper or found online, within the last three
months. They are to be compiled in an 8 1/2 x 11 format and

4. each article is to be accompanied by a half-page (single spaced
typewritten) explanation / analysis of how each article relates to
Ethical Responsibilities of Organizations.
The Newspaper Article Scrapbook will be graded on the
following criteria:
Background and Course Content
· - Contains relevant background information
· - Draws upon course text and lecture material
Research, Supporting Data and Analysis
- Refers to a full range of relevant current resources (course
materials, external sources), and other research
· - Uses relevant data, analyses and conclusions
· - Includes a critical analysis of the sources used
Writing Style and Essay Structure
· - Explanations are well-organized
· - Central ideas are presented very clearly, cogently,
and effectively Grammar and Mechanics
· - Inclusive of a separate title page
· - All sources are cited using MLA style
· - Minimal spelling, punctuation, and grammatical
errors
· - Type-written
· - Single-spaced
· - 12-pt Arial font
· - One-inch wide margins on all four sides
· - Written in MS-Word
MGMT 3480 2E Ethical Responsibilities of Organizations
Winter 2017
Newspaper Article Scrapbook - Grading Rubric

5. Criteria Comments Grade
Background and Course Content
- Contains relevant background
information
- Draws upon course text and
lecture material
/3
Research, Supporting Data and Analysis
- Refers to a full range of relevant
current resources (course
materials, external sources), and
other research
- Uses relevant data, analyses and
conclusions
- Includes a critical analysis of the
sources used
/3
Writing Style and Essay Structure
- Explanations are well-organized
- Central ideas are presented very
clearly, cogently, and effectively

6. /2
Grammar and Mechanics
- Inclusive of a separate title page
All sources are cited using MLA
style
- Minimal spelling, punctuation,
and grammatical errors
- Type-written
- Double-spaced
- 12-pt Arial font
- One-inch wide margins on all
four sides
- Submitted and written in MS-
Word
/2
Total (100%) /10
See Appendix for link to article

7. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tb-drug-price-cycloserine-
1.3237868
For the “ Tuberculosis drug price jumps 2,000%, shocks
doctors” article, it talked about
Cycloserine is a rare and dangerous form of drug, which is
mainly used for multidrug-
resistant tuberculosis. Also, it talked about the development and
history of the drug and
company, and some famous peoples options and suggestions
about viewing the
cycloserine drug. Today, with the more and more people get
tuberculosis, Cycloserine
drug is more and more popular as well, most people use the
product resulted in the price
of Cycloserine drug growth extremely fast overnight from $15
US per pill to $360 US,
it means the percent of price increase 2000% only one night, it
is an unbelievable and
amazing number in the price market for everyone. As we can
see this article, why the
price of cycloserine drug increase rapidly because the company
wants to make more
and more profit from Cycloserine drug, they do not care the
consumers thinking and

8. whether the customer buy it if increase the price in the future,
they are mainly focused
on the current market, even though let the product’s price
become more and more
expensive, because they think more and more people get
tuberculosis, and patient need
the product to use, and the product is very popular in the
market. Another thing the
company thought they do not have more competitors to
compete, so they can make
price and control the price by themselves. For example, if the
amount of supply to
consumer is greater than demand of company, they will raise the
price, however, if the
needed of consumer is less than supply of company, they will
decrease the product’s
price. This is an ethical problem for the company; they violate
the business’s ethics.
The company do not abide by the principle of honesty and equal
trade.

9. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tb-drug-price-cycloserine-
1.3237868
See Appendix for link to article
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ford-recalls-342-000-
windstar-minivans-made-in-
oakville-ont-1.3250813
For the article “Ford recalls 342,000 Windstar minivans made in
Oakville, Ont.
”, It talked about Ford motor company recall 342000 cars
because of its cars within
reason. As we know, ford which is a famous brand used by
billions of people around
the world, and that it has already established its credibility
status and can afford to do
something else than what other brands are doing. However, the
amount of this vehicle

10. recall is a huge number and when the vehicle appears some
problems probable resulted
in people lost their lives, also influence most Canadian people’s
life and let them bring
some inconvenient. In our surprised, this vehicle recall is not
first time for ford motor
company, according to article, “ is the second for the same
safety defect that affects
1998 through 2003 models”. Vehicle will influence the life of
people, even if small
number of accidents already happened, nobody was injured in
this event, but it takes a
lot of problems and trouble. For the ford motor company who
should mainly focused
on internal management and the each part of quality for cars.
Ford motor company
appeared a lot of similar problems; it is more than other brands
of car’s company, and
it can easy to avoid for most of problems. The company did not
pay more attention to
the life of people and the health of people.
”

11. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ford-recalls-342-000-
windstar-minivans-made-in-oakville-ont-1.3250813
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ford-recalls-342-000-
windstar-minivans-made-in-oakville-ont-1.3250813
See Appendix for link to article
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lise-thibault-
sentencing-1.3249849
For the article “ Lise Thibault ordered to re pay $300K, serve
18 months”, it talked
about Lise Thibault who is a 76 years old elderly women, when
she as ex-Quebec
lieutenant-governor, she used of public funds to take golf
lessons, private trips, birthday
parties and to buy fishing rod, even though she stole $429,676
from the provincial and
federal governments over seven years. Now, she accepted the
court’s punishments,

12. which are, she must repay $200,000 to the federal government
and $100,000 to Quebec
and serve 18 months. As we can see this article, when Lise
Thibault worked in
government agency, she used government money not her own
money to make her life
and her family to become better. In fact, every people want to
let their life become better,
people want to buy everything when they want, such as luxury
products or car, however
she did not use her own effects to make money to change life,
just used for stealing.
Before when people vote to her, because she was our leader, at
first she is our good
example in our hearts, we admire to her, and she can let the city
and the country get
more and more powerful and the people’s standard of living
better, however, she
violated the ethical principles. This is a ethics, which is
engaged in certain occupations
working people, in particular, the work and labor in its inner
conviction and special way
to maintain the social, psychological awareness to the
evaluation of good and evil, the

13. sum of the principles and norms of behavior, it is the people an
internal, non-mandatory
constraint mechanism during the Occupation of formation.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lise-thibault-
sentencing-1.3249849
See Appendix for link to article
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/volkswagen-emissions-
1.3248230
For this article “Volkswagen to recall 11 million vehicles as
emissions scandal
expands”, it talked about Volkswagen Company is cheating in
diesel emissions tests in
the United States and Germany's transport minister in order to

14. sell more and more
vehicles and make more and more profit. As we see this article,
there is a kind of
cheating for consumers and the company with countries.
Because the company want to
sell their product more and more in another countries in order to
make more money
from the market. This is a kind of irresponsible behavior for
consumers and it broke the
law on business ethics as well. Volkswagen Company’s sales
have no real to tell
customers its emissions; they decreased the discharge value as a
advantage to sell in
the selling and publicity, let more and more people know the
benefits for the product
and buy their product lead to make more money. When people
drive the Volkswagen
Company’s car, it will discharge a lot of gas emissions and let
entertainment become
more terrible. With the development of economy and
technology, the air pollution is
more and more important problem in the world; we should face
and solve the problem.
So the company broke business ethics issues, such as honesty

15. and trustworthiness, and
respect for nature, protects the environment, conserve resources
and energy treasure.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/volkswagen-emissions-
1.3248230
See Appendix for link to article
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/marcel-aubut-canadian-olympic-
committee-president-
1.3251431
For the article “COC head Marcel Aubut steps aside after sex
harassment complaint”,

16. it talked about a famous person who is Marcel Aubut, the head
of the Canadian Olympic
Committee, sexual harassment of his colleagues. It means males
and females work
together in today’s office, some people like others because of
the beauty or money, and
then sex harassment to another persons who they like. As we see
this article, it is a own
moral responsibility, because From the enterprise concerned, it
is including to treat their
staff friendly, to concern the life of safety and health of
workers, to improve the working
environment, protect the legitimate rights and interests of
workers, pay attention to
employee career growth, let workers to share the development
of enterprise and results.
Marcel Aubut did not help his staff and colleague instead of sex
harassment of his
colleagues. From this point, we can see he broke the basic of
moral. The moral
responsibility is from different part of organization, such as
education, family and
culture. Every people have different level of moral
responsibility. Sex harassment broke

17. down the friendly relationship between people and people. Also,
if more and more
people know this event, it can influence the company’s
reputation and general mood of
society, and it will be influenced the personal value, even
though it will be influenced
the image of country, let people from different countries change
the idea for the country.
This is the professional morality itself resulted in the person’s
family and country.
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/marcel-aubut-canadian-olympic-
committee-president-1.3251431
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/marcel-aubut-canadian-olympic-
committee-president-1.3251431