Maa250 assignment 2 ethics and financial services trimester

1. MAA250 ASSIGNMENT 2
Ethics and Financial Services Trimester 2, 2016
ETHICS LENS PERSONAL REFLECTIVE STATEMENT
Generic instructions for Assessment 2
Due: Part 1– Friday, 22nd July, 2016 (11.59 pm) – Week 2.
Part 2 - Thursday 22nd September, 2016 (11.59 pm) - Week 10
(submission will not be accepted without prior submission of
Part 1)
Word limit: Part 2 – 1,800 words (not including reference list).
Weight: 20% of the overall assessment (20 marks)
Rubric: Marking Rubric is available on CloudDeakin (it is
important that students
are familiar with the marking rubric). Students are assessed on
GLOs 4
and 8.
GLO 4 - Critical Thinking - Analysis, meaning making and
writing spectrum;
GLO 8 - Global citizenship - Cultural and Ethical Self-
Awareness.

2. Requirements:
Part 1: Complete ‘EthicsGame’ Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI)
simulation and submit the
report; (Refer to Cloudsite for resources and instructions on
ELI).
ELI is a typology to help you understand what core values
influence the choices you
make when no rules tell you what to do. The ELI provides an
awareness about your
specific ethical priorities, strengths and blind spots.
Part 2: Provide a *reflection piece drawing on your personal
ethics lens (part 1) and
a choice of any 2 specific topics from the unit to address the
following:
• Given your personal ethics lens, how do you perceive that
these topics will
assist you, a Global Citizen in your future role as a professional
accountant
or leader in business?
*Note: Refer to Cloudsite for resource and guidance on how to
write a reflection.
Personal opinion is required in a reflective piece. Students are
to analyse and provide an
individual written reflective piece by drawing from your
selected topics. For example,
you may include in your analysis a reflection on moral

3. sensitivity, awareness, cultural
values or intercultural issues, judgement, decision making,
implications of actions on
stakeholders etc. or any area from the unit which you consider
relevant in your personal
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MAA250 ASSIGNMENT 2
Ethics and Financial Services Trimester 2, 2016
ethical journey to date. In your reflection, your focus should be
on the development of
your awareness of the Global Citizenship concepts.
Deakin defines GLO 8 - Global Citizenship as engaging
ethically and productively in the
professional context and with diverse communities and cultures
in a global
context. Here is a list of questions that you can use to help you
reflect about Global
Citizenship:
• What do I currently do that shows I am a Global Citizen?
• What do I need to consider when making a decision, in regard
to Global
Citizenship?
• What have I learnt about a culture other than my own?
• How would I make a decision about something if I lived in
another country?
• What would be the decision if I lived in another country, and

4. why would it be
different to the decision I make if I were in Australia?
Suggestion: Create a journal for your selected topics. You
should include entries in your
journal on a regular basis throughout the trimester to help you
develop your
understanding of GLO 8 – Global Citizenship. Given your
personal ethics lens conducted
via EthicsGame simulation, document how your knowledge and
skills progressed in this
area during the trimester. When making entries in your journal,
include ways in which
you can prove that you are more aware of Global Citizenship
and the impact that it has
on your daily behaviour and thoughts. You could also start
developing a table where you
document different cultures and their values.
Submission Details:
• Part 1 - personal ethical lens and Part 2 – personal reflective
statement must be
submitted into the ‘assignment dropbox’ by the due dates (note
the different due
dates).
• Harvard style of referencing to be employed.
• Written in font size 12 for body writing; headings and block
quotes may have different
sizes
• Include page numbers

5. • Include student names and ID numbers in the footer (with
surnames underlined)
• Line spacing of 1.5 or double spacing
• Late submission will not be marked. All marking and student
feedback will be
provided via the dropbox facility in CloudDeakin.
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Students should write an analysis of a single text (print, visual,
cultural). Students should write a thesis-driven analysis of one
of the following rhetorical types: logical, cultural, visual or
linguistic. .
Assignment:
You are to examine a short text of your choosing in great detail
and depth. You will need to analyze the text’s argument and
consider how and why the argument is made. Do not summarize
the content of the text and do not respond to the text’s
argument. Your job is to analyze the rhetorical strategies of the
text.
Step 1: Locate a text with a rhetorical argument. You may use
an essay, a speech, an advertisement, or any other text. Our
textbook claims that “everything is an argument” but not every
text is as rich and full as the next. Therefore, you will bring
your text to class so that I can OK it. Once you have an okay,
move on to step 2.

7. Step 2: Examine the author’s purpose. As with all texts we
discuss in class, your job is to consider the author’s purpose,
make a claim (using evidence) about why he or she wrote the
text, and who the text’s intended audience might be. Look for a
thesis statement and/or end-of- paragraph arguments and for the
use of evidence to support the argument. Think about what
kinds of changes the author is hoping to create in the reader’s
mind or actions as you evaluate the author’s purpose. What
obstacles is the author up against? Does the author cope with all
those obstacles successfully? What means of appeal (such as
pathos, logos and ethos) does the author employ? Make sure to
quote sentences that demonstrate the author’s main ideas in
order to judge their effectiveness, and integrate those ideas into
your argument.
Also, consider audience. Closely examine the title, the
introduction, conclusion, examples, language and word choices
that the author uses. What kind(s) of people do you think these
would appeal to, and why? Are these people included in this
target audience? How do their experiences suggest whether the
author succeeded or not? Make sure to use quotes from the text
that shows us for who the author intends to write.
Step 3: Write a rough draft analysis of your text. (2-3 typed
pages, completed and ready to be discussed.) Explain the
author’s rhetorical strategies. Explain how the author makes his
or her argument. What kind of evidence does she provide to
support her claim? Does this text speak to the intended
audience? Why? Come to class prepared for peer review.
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8. ELI Ethical Lens Inventory
Relationship and Reputation
Feng Cai
You balance your reasoning skills (rationality) and your
intuition (sensibility) to determine what processes, systems,
character traits
and virtues will best serve the community by assuring fairness
and justice for all (equality).
Core Values: Equality and Rationality/Sensibility
You prioritize the value of equality over autonomy. Your
primary concern is the well-being of the whole community and
you believe that assuring the
community's well-being is the best way to assure that
individuals are treated fairly. You value rationality and
sensibility equally. You believe that while
there are universal principles, each situation is unique and not
all exceptions can be categorized. For you the best solution is
both consistent and
flexible.
Classical Virtues: Justice and Fortitude
You value the social that is achieved through loyalty and
consistency in dealings among members of the community. In
your mind, a predictable
system that assures the well-being of all, especially those
without power, is a just system.You also demonstrate courage
and steadiness in the face of
obstacles. You tend to avoid rash actions while at the same time
charting an untested course.

9. Key Phrase: “I make fair and virtuous choices.”
Because you equally value rationality and sensibility, along
with equality, you tend to assume that the best ethical result is
achieved when everyone
lives out the positive character traits required by their role
within a just system.
Determining What Is Ethical: Being fair and Living out Role
Responsibilities
You define an ethical person as one with sound character traits
and habits of thoughtful reflection who seeks justice and
fundamental fairness in the
community. For you, those who demonstrate strong leadership
in their roles and give everyone in the community, especially
those without power, a
chance to succeed exemplify ethical behavior.
Analytical Tool: Authority and Tradition
You tend to think through a problem carefully and research
options. You pay particular attention to the experts on the
subject and what others in
your role have said or done. Your goal is to make a fully
informed decision and to meet the needs of the community,
without harming the least
advantaged. Although you consider what others you respect
have done in similar situations, you remain flexible and can
craft a unique or novel
solution when necessary.
Gift: Advocacy and Compassion
Because you are concerned with fairness, when you are at your
best you work for what is just for all, i.e., what keeps people

10. connected to others in
the community. You assure that systems and processes are
coherent, uniformly followed, and they protect the least
advantaged without creating
undue burdens for the rest. You are also able to "tell the story"
of each member of your community.
Blind Spot: Overconfidence in process or Unrealistic Role
Expectations
Because you believe that a consistent process results in a just
outcome for all, you sometimes trust the process too much. You
forget that unequal
access gives rise to unjust outcomes, even when the process
itself is fair. At other times, you develop unrealistic role
expectations, forgetting that
individuals are fallible regardless of their role.
Risk: Being authoritarian or Self-Righteous
Sometimes you require deference to power concentrated in a
hierarchical authority. Because you have thought carefully
about what is right in a given
situation, you tend to assume that your way is best. You may
then abuse power as you impose your will on others for their
own good. On the other
hand, when your compassion fails, you come to believe that the
perks and privileges of your role belong to you because you are
better than others.
Double Standard: Exemption and Entitlement
As you seek justice for all, you are sometimes tempted to
exempt yourself and leaders you trust from the rules or to
believe that you have a right to
special privileges because of your role. You'll convince yourself

11. that the rules were meant for other people or that the action you
want to take really is
just for everyone - even though your "Fair Self" tells you
otherwise. You will persuade yourself that your role gives you
rights inconsistent with good
character.
Vice: Becoming an ambitious elitist or Hard-hearted
W hen your personal ambition overpowers your concern for
justice, you overlook abuses of power by those in leadership
positions. This will be
especially true when the leaders are part of your group, and they
claim to be protecting the rights of those who cannot protect
themselves. If your
compassion fails and you become hard-hearted, you may apply
capricious and inappropriate solutions.
Crisis: Isolation, guilt and confusion
Unless you develop the practice of mindfulness and reflection,
at some point you will become isolated. No one can always
guarantee justice, or even a
fair process. You will also feel guilty if you begin to resent that
so few people you help seem grateful. At some point you will
also confront the loss of
your center, especially if you lose the role with which you have
become identified. If you find you have few friends, it could be
because your obsession
with justice or your role responsibilities drives everyone away.
Seeing Clearly: Consider the claims of individuals

12. To see more clearly, consider the claims of individuals in the
group, not just the group as a whole. Although you do a god job
of making sure your
head and your heart agree, you do tend to focus on the well -
being of the community at the expense of individual rights. As
you consider what is fair
and what character traits are necessary for the community,
remember to temper your actions with concern for individuals.
Look for ways to assure
that individual rights are protected. As you learn to consider the
perspectives of individuals in your decision making process,
you will live out the best
of your ideals with compassion and care for all.
7/13/2016ELI Ethical Lens InventoryRelationship and
ReputationFeng CaiCore Values: Equality and
Rationality/SensibilityClassical Virtues: Justice and
FortitudeKey Phrase: “I make fair and virtuous
choices.”Determining What Is Ethical: Being fair and Living
out Role ResponsibilitiesAnalytical Tool: Authority and
TraditionGift: Advocacy and CompassionBlind Spot:
Overconfidence in process or Unrealistic Role
ExpectationsRisk: Being authoritarian or Self-RighteousDouble
Standard: Exemption and EntitlementVice: Becoming an
ambitious elitist or Hard-heartedCrisis: Isolation, guilt and
confusionSeeing Clearly: Consider the claims of individuals