NIZWA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS STUDIES DEPARTMENT .docx

NIZWA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
BUSINESS STUDIES DEPARTMENT
SEMESTER -2 / ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020
PHIL3108 – BUSINESS ETHICS / FINAL EXAM
(ASSIGNMENT)
1
COURSE CODE PHIL3108
COURSE NAME BUSINESS ETHICS
LEVEL DIPLOMA II
TUTOR(S)
Ms. Farha / Ms.Noureena / Dr.Kutpudeen / Dr. Tahir / Mr.
Abdulkadir / Dr. Mushtaq
/Mr. Mudasir / Dr. Shamsuddin
SECTION(S) 1 To 13
DURATION:
DATE TIME
START FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 9:00AM

END SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020 8:00AM
MARKS BREAK UP:
No. of Questions Marks for Each Question
1 20
2 15
3 15
TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) The Final Assignment will be available in Moodle at 9:00 am
on the date of examination.
2) This is an open resource examination; there are Four (4)
pages including this front page. Students are allowed
to refer any digital materials (Internet, ProQuest, Masader, and
OER) with proper referencing and citation for
each answers.
3) Students have to answer the questions typewritten in the
word (.docx) format. Figures / Diagrams, equations
and solving of problems can be written by hand and added to the
document as a picture/image.
4) Save the assignment file using the student ID & Course
code.[EXAMPLE : 22s1234 – PHIL3108 –
BUSINESS ETHICS]
5) Students should submit the answers through the Turnitin link

provided in moodle page. If any problem occurs,
send it to the staff email:
a) [email protected] Section 10
b) [email protected] Section 7 /11 /12
c) [email protected] Section 3 / 6
d) [email protected] Section 1/ 13
e) [email protected] Section 8
f) [email protected] Section 5
g) [email protected] Section 4
h) [email protected] Section 2 / 9
6) Students are encouraged to upload the answers in the moodle
at least two hours before the deadline to avoid
any technical issues.
7) In case of any technical problem in opening or submitting
your assignment please contact your course tutor
through email and copy the Department Head
8) Any form of cheating is punishable. Students involved in
cheating will be treated according to the Plagiarism
and Academic Integrity Policies.
9) Students are advised to write the answers in their own words.
Based on the plagiarism policy and the
department approved similarity level, the marks will be
deducted for the plagiarized [Copied] answers.
10) Students should complete their assignment within given
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will be
marked 0.
mailto:[email protected]

(ASSIGNMENT)
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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PLAGIARISM POLICY:
The student should be ready to prove the authenticity of the
work done. If any form of plagiarism/reproduction of answers
are discovered, student will be awarded zero marks.
DECLARATION:
I declare that the Final Exam (assignment) submitted is original
and acknowledge that I am aware of the NCT’s
Integrity and Plagiarism Policies (January 2011) mentioned in
moodle, and the disciplinary guidelines and
procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and
regulations.

I AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
1. There are 3 (Three) Questions in this Final Exam
(Assignment).
2. All Questions are compulsory and hence all must be
answered.
3. Answer in
150 words for 5 marks
4. Answers should be clear and to the point.
5. Typography:
Font style : Times new roman / trebuchet MS / Tahoma
Font size : 12
Line spacing : 1.5
Paper size : A4

(ASSIGNMENT)
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QUESTION 1
(20MARKS)
Need for Ethics Officer: Star Mart a financial institution which

is now into bankruptcy due to the unethical
practices towards investors in billions. One or other, from the
one hundred employees participated in the
fraudulent activity including the CEO of the company. The
issues of company were filed in court, and thus
imposed probation and ordered to follow the instructions of the
court. One of those orders given by the court to the
company was to appoint an ethics officer. Ms. Nehla was
appointed at Star mart financial institution as a Chief
Ethics Officer as per court order. Her primary responsibility is
to ensure that Star Mart Company is dedicated to
integrity and its employees are committed to high ethical
standards. Her tasks are the same like any other ethics
officer, but she was under more pressure because Star Mark
can’t make any more ethical lapses. She supervises the
company’s ethics initiatives, including training programs and
ethics. She spends a lot of time with her employees,
listening to their concerns and promoting company values. She
attends all board meetings and provides members
with periodic updates on the company’s newly instituted ethics
program.
Questions:
a. Will you be interested in taking up a job of ethics officer?
Why and why not? Give reasons.

(5 marks) (Answer must be in 150 words)
b. What qualities would you consider if you were
hiring/appointing an ethics officer?
c. What factors will help Ms. Nehla to carry out her job to
strengthen ethical standards in the company?
d. Do you think if Ms. Nehla was working earlier as ethical
officer would this unethical practices happened in
Star Mart? Explain your opinion. (5 marks) (Answer must be
in 150 words)

(ASSIGNMENT)
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QUESTION 2
(15 MARKS)
We may define ethics as normative science of the conduct of
human being living in societies- a science which
judge this conduct to be right or wrong, to be good or bad. Or in
some similar way, William Lillie (1971). Ethical
values guide us in making decisions in our life. It also depends
on how we view ethics which depends on our
upbringing, societal norms, and culture.
Based on this assertion:
a. How significant do you think values is in our lives? Explain
in five points.
b. Describe your perceptive on five methods you will use to
nurture values to your younger ones.
c. List down any two values that are paramount to you. State
reasons for it.

QUESTION 3
(15 MARKS)
“To be ethical it is required to have clear good judgment and
responsibilities. The ethics can be covered from
education, or a person can be trained ethically by learning.
However, there is no need of some special education
for ethics because a person can learn from his/her surrounding
and environment. To be able to solve difficult
situation and face different problem will require ethical
understanding, human interaction, and sound base of
ethics. If a business for example want to be called an ethically
accepted business, it requires to take such action
which are ethically accepted. According to Muhammad Tufail
(2009), most people think that business has nothing
to do with ethics but if business ignored the ethical standard
will lose its image and not be able to survive”.
In line with these ethical statements:
a. Describe ethics in your own words and write its importance
to individuals.
b. How important is ethics in our lives at home and at
workplace? Justify.

c. Explain the branches of ethics that workers need to
understand so that they can work to the highest ethical
standard in their respective workplaces. (5 marks) (Answer
must be in 150 words)
(ASSIGNMENT)
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COURSE CODE PHIL3108
COURSE NAME BUSINESS ETHICS
LEVEL DIPLOMA II
TUTOR(S)
Ms. Farha / Ms.Noureena / Dr.Kutpudeen / Dr. Tahir / Mr.
Abdulkadir / Dr. Mushtaq

/Mr. Mudasir / Dr. Shamsuddin
SECTION(S) 1 To 13
DURATION:
DATE TIME
START FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 9:00AM
END SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020 8:00AM
MARKS BREAK UP:
No. of Questions Marks for Each Question
1 20
2 15
3 15
TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) The Final Assignment will be available in Moodle at 9:00 am
on the date of examination.
2) This is an open resource examination; there are Five (5)
pages including this front page. Students are allowed
to refer any digital materials (Internet, ProQuest, Masader, and
OER) with proper referencing and citation for
each answers.

3) Students has to answer the questions typewritten in the word
(.docx) format. Figures / Diagrams, equations and
solving of problems can be written by hand and added to the
document as a picture/image.
4) Save the assignment file using the student ID & Course
code.[EXAMPLE : 22s1234 – PHIL3108 –
BUSINESS ETHICS]
5) Students should submit the answers through the Turnitin link
provided in moodle page. If any problem occurs,
send it to the staff email:
a) [email protected] Section 10
b) [email protected] Section 7 /11 /12
c) [email protected] Section 3 / 6
d) [email protected] Section 1/ 13
e) [email protected] Section 8
f) [email protected] Section 5
g) [email protected] Section 4
h) [email protected] Section 2 / 9
6) Students are encouraged to upload the answers in the moodle
at least two hours before the deadline to avoid
any technical issues.
7) In case of any technical problem in opening or submitting
your assignment please contact your course tutor
through email and copy the Department Head
8) Any form of cheating is punishable. Students involved in
cheating will be treated according to the Plagiarism
and Academic Integrity Policies.
9) Students are advised to write the answers in their own words.
Based on the plagiarism policy and the

department approved similarity level, the marks will be
deducted for the plagiarized [Copied] answers.
10) Students should complete their assignment within given
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will be
marked 0.
(ASSIGNMENT)
2
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PLAGIARISM POLICY:
The student should be ready to prove the authenticity of the
work done. If any form of plagiarism/reproduction of answers
are discovered, student will be awarded zero marks.
DECLARATION:

I declare that the Final Exam (assignment) submitted is original
and acknowledge that I am aware of the NCT’s
Integrity and Plagiarism Policies (January 2011) mentioned in
moodle, and the disciplinary guidelines and
procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and
regulations.
I AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
1. There are 3 (Three) Questions in this Final Exam
(Assignment).
2. All Questions are compulsory and hence all must be
answered.
3. Answer in
4. Answers should be clear and to the point.
5. Typography:

Font style : times new roman / trebuchet MS / Tahoma
Font size : 12
Line spacing : 1.5
Paper size : A4
(ASSIGNMENT)

3
QUESTION 1 (20 MARKS)
Murshid works for a firm which has a strict policy against
employees sending work-related emails to their personal
email accounts. The concern is over client confidentiality and
information security risks, and the policy applies to
all employees and managers at all levels. Murshid discovers that
other analysts do not always follow the rule. They
email spreadsheet models to their personal email accounts on
Thursday so they can work on them from home over
the weekend. Although employees have company-owned
laptops, taking them home is inconvenient, and
employees cannot log into the company's network from home
computers. While working with his boss on a
project, Murshid is asked to send several files to his boss's
personal email account so she can review them at her
country home over the weekend. Murshid’s boss would play a
significant role in writing his end-of-year
performance review.
Questions:

a. Should Murshid comply with his boss's request, or refuse? (5
marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
b.Why one should use personal email for official purpose? (5
marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
c. What are the consequences of using WhatsApp, personal texts
with customers other than official email?
(5 marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
d.What kind of privacies are affected in this case? Is it right to
disturb privacy?
QUESTION 2.
(15 MARKS)
In September 2010, the French Parliament passed a bill
prohibiting people from covering their faces in public
areas. While this law applied to all citizens and all forms of
face covering, it became known as France’s ―burka
bill‖. Its targeted Muslim women who wore burkas—religious
garments covering the face and body—in public.
French lawmakers argued that the law was important for the
separation of church and state and for the welfare and
protection of the rights of the women. However, some in the
French Muslim community saw the bill as an

undermining of religious freedom. They argued that French
legislators were imposing their idea of gender equality
onto their culture. Many of them, including some women,
argued that wearing burkas actually protected the
women from the physical objectification in the Western culture.
A number of women protested the bill by dressing
in burkas and going to the offices of lawmakers who supported
the legislation. One of these women critiqued the
bill, stating, ―My quality of life has seriously deteriorated
since the ban, the politicians claimed they were
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liberating us; what they’ve done is to exclude us from the social
sphere.‖ The law was challenged in 2014 and
taken to the European Court of Human Rights.
Questions:

a. Should all religious practices be tolerated in a free society?
Are there limits to what you think should be
allowed? Explain your reasoning. (5 marks) (Answer must be
150 words)
b. If you were in France as a student in a college, what steps
would you have taken to protect your rights as a
Muslim and as a human? (5 marks) (Answer must be 150
words)
c. Should any kind of religious clothes be banned in schools and
colleges? Justify your answer in five points.
QUESTION 3
(15 MARKS)
Whiz kids School, a school in a small town in Africa was in
need of improvement for the last five years. Unless 58
percent of students passed the math portion of the standardized
test and 67 percent passed the language arts
portion, school could be closed down. Its students would be
separated and bussed across town to different schools.
Mr. Tom, The Principal of the school had pushed his students to
work harder than they ever had in preparing for
the test. But he knew that it would be difficult for many of them
to pass. Tom had changed their students’ answers

on the standardized tests under the guise of erasing stray pencil
marks. He asked the other teachers to do the same.
Benet, a Math’s teacher found the exams of students who
needed to get a few more questions right in order to pass.
He changed their answers. The students would lose their
neighborhood school and the community that had
developed within it if the teachers did not do this. Thanks to
Tom and other teachers, the school students did better
than ever on the standardized tests. Jack, a former student at
Parks at the time, recalled, ―Everyone was jumping
up and down,‖ after a teacher announced the school had met the
goals of No Child Left Behind for the first time.
After six months, 25 agents of the Central Bureau of
Investigation visited Whiz kids and other African schools.
The investigators concluded that teachers and administrators at
20 schools had cheated in the manner that Lewis
had. 100 teachers had confessed of cheating were placed on
administrative leave, including Mr. Tom. Later that
year, Tom was terminated.
Questions:
a. Who are the stakeholders in this case study, and what was at
stake for each party? How might each have
influenced Mr. Tom’s actions? Explain. (5 marks)
(Answer must be 150 words)

b. In this case study, what were the benefits of falsifying
students’ test scores? What were the harms?
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c. Do you think cheating can ever be ethically justifiable? Why
or why not? (5 marks) (Answer must be 150
words)

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