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NIZWA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
BUSINESS STUDIES DEPARTMENT
SEMESTER -2 / ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020
FINAL EXAM (ASSIGNMENT)
COURSE CODE
BAHR 3101
COURSE NAME
MANAGING TROUBLED EMPLOYEES
LEVEL
Advanced Diploma
TUTOR (S)
Ms. Virginia
SECTION (S)
1
DURATION:
DATE
TIME
START
17 May 2020
9:00AM
END
19 May 2020
8:00AM
MARKS BREAK UP:
No. of Questions
Marks for Each Question
1
2

3
TOTAL MARKS
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 three pages.
Students are allowed to refer any digital materials (Internet,
Proquest, Masader, and OER) with proper referencing and
citation for each answer.
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.
[Eg : 22s1234.BAHR3101]
5) Students should submit the answers through the Turnitin link
provided in Moodle page. If any problem occurs, send it to the
staff email [[email protected]]
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 the given
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will be marked
0.
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
ESSAY / LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS (analytical / scenario /
case) 50 Marks
Read thoroughly the scenario/case/question before you answer.
For each question number (e.g. Question 1), answer must
contain minimum of 300 wordsto maximumof 400 words.
Question 115 Marks
Many leading multinational private organizations had heavily
invested to ensure effective talent management. Aside from
competitive compensation package, they also provided
employee assistance program (EAP) to enhance employee
relations. However, there are few employees whose work
performance are regularly unsatisfactory. The HRD through
EAP classified those individuals as troubled employees.
a) Appraise EAP suitability of managing troubled employees in
Oman companies. (5 Marks)
b) Explain the causes of employee’s unsatisfactory work
performance. (5 Marks)
c) Describe services of three EAP providers in Oman.
(5 Marks

Question 215 Marks
Regina and Fidel both work in engineering section. Fidel was
hired a few months ago and Regina has been with the company
for 10 years. Fidel, while being a competent worker, tends to
wait until the last minute to get his work done. Regina works
more steadily and keeps on top of her work daily. Regina
complains that she feels she was worrying about his work and
her own. And, because they depend on each other for certain
tasks, she is uncomfortable with waiting until an hour or so
before a deadline when they are forced to collaborate. Because
of the conflict, Fidel is missing more work and because he
wants to avoid Regina and her anger. Moreover, female
colleagues believe that Regina is correct, and Fidel is totally
wrong. On the contrary, the male colleagues have divided
perception, some of them sided with Regina, and others sided
with Fidel.
a) Explain the causes of conflict between Fidel and Regina.
(5 Marks)
b) If you are the supervisor of Fidel and Regina, discuss how
will you resolve the issue? (5 Marks)
c) Formulate approaches to manage the behavior of their
colleagues. (5 Marks)
Question 320 Marks
Wada Al Qassabi has been working for almost ten years as
Executive Assistant to the Managing Director (Paul Robinson)
in global logistics firm. She is competent, dependable, and had
superb interpersonal relationship across the organization. Paul
Robinson is highly energetic boss who frequently travels out of
the country. In his absence, he usually assigns Wada to
supervise daily operations, which upsets few senior department

managers (SDM). Hence, the SDM connive with each other in
order to tarnish Wada’s reputation. They wrote a complaint
letter to Paul that Wada frequently ignored their instructions
and must be charged of insubordination. According to
company’s grievance policy, insubordination is a major offence
that must be handled under disciplinary action.
a) If you are the superior of Wada, what will you do to act in
accordance with natural justice. (5 Marks)
b) If you are Wada, how will you defend yourself against the
charges? (5 Marks)
c) In behalf of SDM, draft letter of warning against Wada.
(5 Marks)
d) If you are part of grievance team, how will you implement
disciplinary action? (5 Marks)
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SEMESTER -2 / ACADEMIC YEAR
2019-2020
COURSE CODE
BAEB 4200
COURSE NAME Management Information Systems
LEVEL B.Tech
TUTOR(S) Iram Fatima, Ramesh Krishna
SECTION(S) 4
DURATION:
DATE TIME
START 17th May 2020 9:00AM
END 19th may 2020 8:00AM
MARKS BREAK UP:
No. of Questions Marks for Each Question
1 10
2 10
3 10
4 10

5 10
TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
2) This is an open resource examination; there are (7) pages.
Students are allowed to refer any digital materials
(Internet, Proquest, Masader, and OER) with proper referencing
and citation for each answers.
(.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.[ Eg : 22s1234 – BAEB4200]
5) Students should submit the answers through the turnitin link
provided in moodle page. If any problem occurs,
send it to the staff email [Email ; [email protected],
[email protected]]
6) Students are encouraged to upload the answers in the moodle
at least two hours before the deadline to avoid any

technical issues.
your assignment please contact your course tutor
through email and copy the Department Head
Academic Integrity Policies.
Based on the plagiarism policy and the department
approved similarity level, the marks will be deducted for the
plagiarized [Copied] answers.
mailto:[email protected]
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10) Students should complete their assignment within the given
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will
be marked 0.
11) Assignment can be uploaded in the moodle ONLY ONCE,
so please check your answers before uploading
them. The teacher WILL NOT DELETE any assignment for any

student to upload them again.
12) The Assignment consists of five (5) Cases with sub
questions with total of 50 Marks.
13) All questions are compulsory and hence all must be
answered.
14) 5, 6 marks questions must be answered in detail in NOT
LESS than 200 words.
15) 10 marks questions must be answered in your own words in
NOT LESS than 300 words.
16) Typography:
i. Font style : Times New Roman
ii. Font size : 12
iii. Line spacing : 1.5
iv. Paper size : A4
are
discovered, student will be awarded zero marks.
DECLARATION:

STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION
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Case 1:
Dreams Discount Center operates discount stores offering
housing wares, cleaning supplies, clothing, health and
beauty aids with most items selling for RO 1. As you can see
from the pricing strategy adopted by the business model
they want to reduce their operational cost as low as possible.
They have used a labour saving information system in
their center to reduce the manpower. Although the company
uses information systems it uses them very carefully
keeping expenditures to the minimum. The inventory
management in the company is operated with manual method
currently. The managers experience is used as an advantage for
the company to know the arriving of distribution
trucks to the location of the sales outlet of the company. The
performance of inventory management services affected
sales of the company. Most of the time the customers did not
get what they wanted from the store. Some products
were out of stock and some others were overstocked. The same
problem was repeated for the company in most of its
sale outlets. Materials losses from theft or other accidents have
been raising and now represent 3% of the total sales.
The total distribution system was disturbed if a manager is
transferred as he lost the knowledge of location and

transport related data. The company is now seriously thinking
about a solution for the problem.
Answer the following questions:
1a. Examine the objectives of using an information system for
inventory management. (5 Marks)
1b. Evaluate the decisions that the company has to make before
investing in an information system? (5 Marks)
Case 2:
ResortBook international provides services to companies that
develop and own resort properties. Services include
time-share payments, loans, and handling credit-card
transactions. Some companies build resort sites throughout the
world for individuals who wish to use them for vacations. The
contract is usually for many years. In addition, property
owners sell customers other services such as car rentals and
recreational activities.
Instead of dealing directly with sales and billing, many of these
corporations hire services of companies like
ResortBook to bill customers and answer their questions.
Property owners outsource this work to ResortBook because

the firm specializes in maximizing the revenue and the owners
do not have to invest in information technology to
handle sales, billing and collections.
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ResortBook serves more than one million travelling customers.
There were many consumer queries related to the
errors in their bills. Most of these responses are via email
messages. The number of email messages increased. The
company later arranged two phone call centers. It still had to
solve the email problem.
To solve these problems ReortBook installed a CRM software.
This software provided a complete multi-channel
contact center. Not only members of all call center staff have
access to the incident center information, but all
members of the firm. If the customer has a credit card issue the
call center staff informs the incident to the finance
office. They can also keep a check on the finance office till the
issue is solved.
The CRM system ensured accountability. Nobody in the
organization can relax until an incident is solved. The
accountability gives each unit a purpose to resolve the matter

fast. Every action in this process is recorded and
managers can follow the process from beginning to end.
ResortBook’s internal e-mail decreased by 30%. The office
was made paperless by the information system used. Since most
of the information is saved electronically, no need
to create or maintain paper documents. The CRM system
maintains data that can also be used for future analysis.
2a. Examine the problems faced by ResortBook before the
system was implemented. (2 Marks)
2b. Critically analyze the role of CRM software in improving
the operational efficiency of ResortBook. Justify your
answer with valid reasons and examples? (8 Marks)
Case 3:
Instead of taking that 6:30 A.M. plane to make a round of
meetings in Qatar, wouldn’t it be great if you could attend
these events without leaving your desktop? It is possible today
with the help of applications used for conducting
meetings and conferences online. A June 2018 report issued by
the Global Investor Magazine estimated that up to 20
percent of business travel could be replaced by virtual meeting
technology.

A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations
to communicate at the same time through two-way
video and audio transmissions. Most companies think
videoconferencing a poor substitute for face-to-face meetings.
But. major changes in these applications have changed many
company’s perceptions. The annual rate of growth of
video conferencing is around 30%.
Many users of this technology claim that it does more than
simply reduce costs. It allows for “better” meetings as
well: it is easier to meet with partners, suppliers and colleagues
from within the office or around the world on a more
frequent basis, which may not have achieved if people traveled.
Some contacts which may not be reachable physically
may also be contacted using video conferencing technology. For
example, a recruiting firm Talent Search
International uses video interviews to screen potential
candidates for jobs.
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Innovations in technology have bought major changes in the
system. The system is now able to display high definition
images. The top-of the- line videoconferencing technology is

known as Virtual meet. Virtual meet tries to make users
feel as if they are actually present in a location different from
their own. You can sit across a table from a large screen
showing someone who looks quite real and life-size, but may be
in China or Singapore. However, physical handshake
and cards exchanging will be missed.
Virtual meet products provide the highest- quality
videoconferencing available on the market to date. Cisco
Systems
has installed Virtual meet systems in more than 500
organizations around the world.
Many companies using this technology have experienced huge
savings. For example, technology consulting firm
Sasken reports that it eliminated expenditures for 240
international trips and 120 domestic flights in a single month.
Considerably more number of customers and partners were
being accessible. Other business travelers report ten times
increases in the number of customers and partners they are able
to reach for a fraction of the previous price per person.
However, these products are not very reasonable for small
businesses. There are even some free Internet-based
options like Skype videoconferencing and Zoom. These
products are of lower quality than traditional
videoconferencing products, but they can only talk to others

using that very same system. Most videoconferencing
and virtual meet products are able to interact with a variety of
other devices. Companies are using these tools also
for training and sales presentations. These products enable
participants to share documents and presentations along
with audio conferencing and live video via Webcam.
Before setting up videoconferencing or Virtual meet, it’s
important for a company to make sure it really needs the
technology to ensure that it will be a profitable. There are still
plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more
desirable, and often traveling to meet a client is essential for
clients and closing sales.
3a. Critically analyze the value chain process related to virtual
meet application. (5 Marks)
3b. Imagine that Nizwa College of Technology is subscribing
for virtual meet. Illustrate how this technology will add
value to the below mentioned processes in the college.
(5 Marks)
i. Advising and registration
ii. Teaching and learning

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Case 4:
Al Abbasi group of companies are supplying different types of
information systems that is required for all the types
of business They are located in Saudi Arabia but they have
offices in 55 countries in middle east Europe and Asia.
They had a data warehouse in Saudi Arabia which was used by
the company management in all these countries to
improve customer satisfaction and marketing. The data in the
data warehouse was updated from all these 55 countries.
There was full of inaccurate data in the data warehouse. The
data entered were mainly phone numbers, customer
addresses, emails pin code or zip code etc. There were
complaints from the sales and marketing group that the data
recorded is not accurate when they search for particular
customer’s data, it was not complete or updated twice with

different spellings. Some of the pin codes were three digits and
some others were six digits. The phone numbers also
had similar type of issue. The addresses had issues too. The
system and services sold by the company was mainly
order entry related customer data. There were different services
for companies selling cars and mobile phones. Al
Abbasi group is the market leader in making order entry
systems. Many organizations who were using Al Abaasi
group’s services were complaining that the data they provide is
troubling their business operations.
Assume that you are the information officer of the Al abbasi
group keeping these points in mind, answer the following
questions.
4a. Discuss any two risks that your business will face due to
data error. (5 Marks)
4b. Propose a solution to avoid these errors from the data base.
(5 Marks)
Case 5:
OmanDATA website is linked to huge databases that combine

personal data on millions of people. There was data
available for sales on people who purchased different products
with their location. Based on the price quoted by the
seller they were also selling the age, gender, financial status,
and nature of interest of the customers. If you click on
‘Consumer Leads’ to order a customer list, you can find the
names, addresses and sometimes phone numbers of
potential customers in a specific location and purchase a list of
those names. One should use this capability to obtain
a list, for example, for everyone in Nizwa, making more than
RO 25,000 or more per year. This information was
given to the required promoters and advertisers so that they can
use it wisely to target the customer group. The luxury
apartment builders wanted to know the potential buyers in a
location they could buy the data from this data broker.
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There were even small buyers of data like travel and tourism
companies wanted to know the tourist arrived in a
particular place. Five star hotels collected the data of potential
travelers and tourists arrived in a particular area. The
insurance companies were in need of data whose insurance
policies were going to be expired. The data brokers earned

big money from the customized services they have created. The
data segments like real estate, insurance tourism etc
had different type of price bands. Many car companies collected
data of luxurious car buyers in a particular area to
conduct promotional activities.
5a. Examine any five privacy issues raised by brokers like
Oman DATA. (10 Marks)
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COURSE CODE BAHR 3105
COURSE NAME HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION
SYSTEM

LEVEL ADVANCED DIPLOMA
TUTOR(S) DR. SHAMSUDDIN KHUTHBUDDIN
SECTION(S) 1
DURATION:
DATE TIME
START FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 9:00AM
END SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020 8:00AM
MARKS BREAK UP:
Question No. Marks for Each Question
1 10
2 10
3 10
4 10
5 10
TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
2) This is an open resource examination; there are Three (3)

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.
(.docx) format. Figures / Diagrams, equations and solving of
problems can be written by hand and added to the document as a
picture/image.
code.[ EXAMPLE : 22s1234 – BAHR3105 - HRIS]
provided in moodle page. If any problem occurs, send it to
the staff email [email protected]
at least two hours before the deadline to avoid any technical
issues.
your assignment please contact your course tutor through email
and copy the Department Head
Academic
Integrity Policies.
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.
are
discovered, student will be awarded zero marks.
DECLARATION:
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION
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INSTRUCTIONS TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
1. There are 5 (Five) Questions in this Final Exam
(Assignment).
2. All Questions are compulsory and hence all must be
answered.
3. Answer in
a. 60 words for 2 marks
b. 90 words for 3 marks
c. 120 words for 4 marks
d. 150 words for 5 marks
e. 300 words for 10 marks
4. Answers should be clear and to the point.
5. Typography:
Font style : times new roman
Font size : 12
Line spacing : 1.5
Paper size : A4
QUESTION 1 (5+5 =10
Marks)
ABC LLC a logistics company located in Muscat had branches
in over 150 countries. The Company has issues with
communication, workflow process being long and slow,
unaddressed staff grievances etc. The company had decided
that in order to improve the employee’s experience in the
company an HRIS software may be purchased. Within 3

months the company purchased the software and it was test run
and implemented. Within 1 month after its installation
the company headquarters in Muscat received many complaints
such as wrong salary was credited to their account
with some employees receive more and some less. Leaves
applications were not approved which resulted in loss of
pay, Performance appraisals were made with rules that are
followed in other countries, date and time formats were
changed leading to confusion in employee information and
differences in working hours and holidays.
a. Explain the HR functions where HR department was facing
problems after implementing new HRIS system.
(Answer in 150 words)
b. Explain what could have gone wrong during the different
stages of SDLC that has resulted in these issues.
(Answer in 150 words)
QUESTION 2 (5+5 =10 Marks)
In the Information Technology Industry the companies visit
college at least 18 months in advance to select the
students for employment. One automobile manufacturing
company which specializes in manufacturing cars visited
39 colleges and selected 120 girls who were pursing their
mechanical engineering. The company issued the

appointment orders and were asked to join the company once
they get their final semester results next year. Based on
data that the company maintained in the HRIS it forecasted the
requirements and hence the recruitment decisions
were made. The company also strategized that they would want
to brand their company as diversified employer and
hence recruited girls. A year later when these students were
about to graduate and join the company the HR
department found that the data has errors and that the number of
employees required were only 70. The first 70
students who were recruited joined the company , but the
remaining 50 students were waiting for their joining date
for nearly 8 months. Most of the students had also availed
education loans from banks to pay of their fee , which they
need to pay back. This resulted in students going into the court
and the government ordering the company to employ
all the remaining 50 girls. The company had no work for them,
and it also lost its reputation and other issues.
a. As a HR Explain the challenges you will face to save the
employees as well as the company’s reputation. (Answer
in 150 words)
b. Explain the modules in HRIS that you would check to address
this issue. (Answer in 150 words)

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QUESTION 3
(10 Marks)
An organization that manufactures trains got a contract from
European country’s government for 100 million rials.
The company got its contract in 2019 and was expected to start
work in 2020 march. But due to COVID -19 the
government called for a total shutdown and work was put on
hold. Due to this the government has informed the
company that the payments are likely to get delayed and that the
company needs to wait for 6 months. In this is
situation the company’s board of directors held a meeting to
alter their strategic plans from “innovate and grow” to
“Survive by cutting cost”. The management also informed the
HR department to make the necessary plans , goals
and objectives that will help achieve the new strategic goals.
a. In this scenario, as a HR staff explain the changes that you
will bring about to various modules in an HRIS System
with detailed examples. (Answer in 300 words)

QUESTION 4
(10 Marks)
You work for a company as a HR executive. The company is
currently using a HRIS system that was bought, installed,
and maintained by an outsourced IT company since 2010. The
system was designed and upgraded using many
programming languages. The system according to you was old
and needs to be scrapped and new system be installed.
At the same time the company suggests that you need to modify
the existing system sighting cost factors and financial
issues the company may have to face if they go for a new
system. The management of your company is not convinced
and asks you to submit a report to justify your suggestion.
a. Make a report comparing the company’s decision and your
suggestion and choose the best one. (Answer in 300
words)
QUESTION 5
(10 Marks)
The Harvard model of HR states that there are six stakeholders
to a business of which four are mentioned below.
• Shareholders
• Management

• Employees
• Government
Similarly to the Harvard Model, the Warwick framework
focuses on five different elements in HR:
• The outer context (includes political, technical, and
competitive factors, among others)
• The inner context (the structure, leadership, culture, task-
technology)
• Business strategy content (company objectives, product
market, and general strategy)
• HRM context (Job role, definition, organisation, HR outputs)
• HRM content (HR flow, reward systems, employee relations,
work systems, and other aspects)
a. As a HR student can you explain how HRIS can be used as a
tool that to connect the four stakeholders with the
five elements of HR. (Answer in 300words)
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
MARKS BREAK UP:
1 20
2 15
3 15

TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
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.
code.[EXAMPLE : 22s1234 – PHIL3108 –
BUSINESS ETHICS]
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

at least two hours before the deadline to avoid
any technical issues.
cheating will be treated according to the Plagiarism
and Academic Integrity Policies.
Based on the plagiarism policy and the
department approved similarity level, the marks will be
deducted for the plagiarized [Copied] answers.
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will be
marked 0.

(ASSIGNMENT)
2
DECLARATION:
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.
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION

1. There are 3 (Three) Questions in this Final Exam
(Assignment).
answered.
3. Answer in
150 words for 5 marks
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 (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

(ASSIGNMENT)
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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?
(ASSIGNMENT)
5

c. Do you think cheating can ever be ethically justifiable? Why
or why not? (5 marks) (Answer must be 150
words)
(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
MARKS BREAK UP:
1 20
2 15
3 15
TOTAL MARKS 50
INSTRUCTIONS:
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.

code.[EXAMPLE : 22s1234 – PHIL3108 –
BUSINESS ETHICS]
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
at least two hours before the deadline to avoid
any technical issues.
cheating will be treated according to the Plagiarism
and Academic Integrity Policies.
Based on the plagiarism policy and the
department approved similarity level, the marks will be
deducted for the plagiarized [Copied] answers.
time. Assignments submitted after the deadline will be
marked 0.

(ASSIGNMENT)
2
DECLARATION:
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.
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID
DATE OF SUBMISSION
1. There are 3 (Three) Questions in this Final Exam
(Assignment).
answered.
3. Answer in
5. Typography:
Font style : Times new roman / trebuchet MS / Tahoma
Font size : 12
Line spacing : 1.5

Paper size : A4
(ASSIGNMENT)
3
QUESTION 1

(20MARKS)
Maria and Sarah are members of student council in the college.
During the student council meeting there was a
discussion regarding the ethics that students need to follow
inside the college campus. The issues that was noticed
in college for example were like; writing on the walls of class
room, throwing water bottles around the class room,
not closing the water tab properly, wasting food in cafeteria, not
maintaining hygiene at cafeteria and rest rooms,
and damaging the property of college. Since these issues have to
be taken care of, as it is important for students to
be ethical towards themselves and environment. The student
council decides to create clean ethical awareness
program for students to create awareness in the college.
a. Explain the five key areas of ethics that will be given
importance in the clean ethical awareness program and
why? (10 marks) (Answer must be in 300 words)
b. Discuss five positive ways to make the students follow the
ethics in the college.
(5 marks) (Answer must be in 150 words)
c. If the student council did not decide on ethical awareness

program, what will you do if you were in the position
of Sarah as student council member? Explain the measures you
will decide to make students follow ethics?
QUESTION 2
(15 MARKS)
“Ethical values are guiding principles that guides us in making
decisions in our life as they lay the foundation of
our responses and reactions. However, the definition what is
right and wrong depends on the upbringing, culture,
and the societal norms”
In line with these important statements:
a. Do you think that value is important part of our life? Justify
your answers in five points.
b.Explain five ways you will impart values to your younger
ones. (5 marks) (Answer must be in 150 words)
c. Which values are paramount to you as a person? State why?

(ASSIGNMENT)
4
QUESTION 3
(15 MARKS)
Umar works in a supermarket and has a good attitude. But he
doesn’t like his boss. He usually will say “Salam” to
his boss every morning at workplace. Even if his boss’s attitude
is bad, he still greets his boss. The boss on the
other hand has a habit of bad behavior like using bad words, not
praying, smoking, talking bad about people
behind their back, cheating, etc. People respect him only out of
fear, not choice.
a. Explain five aspects that affects Umar’s Ethical values in
Workplace. Provide example for each factor.

b. Elaborate the behavior of Umar’s boss. (5 marks) (Answer
must be in 150 words)
c. If you were in Umar’s place, what would you do? (5 marks)
(Answer must be in 150 words)

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