Introduction to law ethics writing assignment introductionacc
1. Introduction to Law
Ethics Writing Assignment
Introduction
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To write the essay you will need to view Joseph L. Badaracco’s
Defining Moments: A Framework for Moral Decisions.
The Defining Moments video is available on-line through the
Business Source Complete (BSC) database on the University of
Iowa websitehttp://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz/ (Links to an external
site.)
Here is a permalink to the
video: http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscoh
ost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=fsv&AN=2861c&site=bsi-
live&scope=site (Links to an external site.)
Alternately, you can follow the directions below.
Type Business Source Complete into the SmartSearch field.
The database will be your first hit. Click Details, then Link to
Resource.
Once in the Business Source Complete database, click on the
link to the Business Videos library.
Then do a search for “Defining Moments.”
Your search should take you to Badarraco’s Defining Moments:
A Framework for Moral Decisions video. Click on the video
link.
2. Then watch the video.
Background to Case
The Washington Post presents an interesting scenario
surrounding the Central States Pension Fund.[1] For this
assignment, you should read the article in its entirety and use
the facts and statements therein to answer the questions below.
Content:
Briefly, the article concerns a legal and ethical issue affecting
the rights of workers. A pension is defined as “a regular
payment made during a person's retirement from an investment
fund to which that person or their employer has contributed
during their working life.” Typically, in America, workers
contribute to a pension fund out of their earnings for 30 or more
years and then are guaranteed a monthly payment for the rest of
their life after retirement. The money in the pension fund is
invested by professional managers.
Usually, pension funds grow in value as the investments earn
interest and dividends over the years. However, the financial
crisis (driven by unethical behavior on Wall Street) caused
many pension funds to lose money. Also, retired workers are
living longer and thus drawing pensions for more years than
previous generations. Because of this, new legislation was
passed in Congress that “for the first time allowed financially
distressed multi-employer plans to reduce benefits for retirees if
it would improve the solvency of the fund.”
The Central States Pension Fund (“the Fund”), detailed in the
article, is faced with a difficult choice. The Fund does not have
enough money to pay out all the money it has promised to past
and future employees. If the Fund continues to pay out pension
at its current rate, it is projected to become insolvent (out of
money) by 2025. If this happens, the Fund may not be able to
pay out any money to current or future retirees. This would
negatively impact 407,000 current and future retirees.
3. If the Fund cuts its monthly payments to current retirees by
approximately 23%, there is a 50 percent chance the Fund can
remain solvent for another 30 years. However, this will have a
strongly negative impact on current retirees, who depend on the
Fund for their monthly living expenses. It has enraged these
retirees, who believe the Fund is breaking an important
promise. In many cases, they passed up raises and other
benefits during their working years to ensure a certain level of
pension payments on retirement.
Suppose you were the director of the Fund. What would you do
in this situation? Would you go forward with the proposed cuts
or not?
Note: Please do NOT analyze the legal aspects of the situation.
We are asking you to examine the situation solely from an
ethical perspective.
Use the following steps to assist you in structuring your answer
(although you should not write the essay as just answers to the
series of questions below). Your essay should have a clearly
articulated thesis and effective claim statements for paragraph
topic sentences in which you develop your position.
· What is the ethical issue or problem?
· What are the critical facts related to your decision?
· What are possible solutions/actions/responses?
· Who will be affected by your decision? (Who are the
stakeholders?)
· What is the effect of the likely solutions/actions/responses on
the stakeholders?
· What is your decision? How do you propose to justify your
decision based on Badaracco’s four Frameworks for a Decision
(i.e., best net/net, individual rights, messages sent about
character, and what will work in the world as it is) and your
own primary ethical values?
· What makes your decision “ethical”?
Format:
Your essay should be written in paragraph form, with indented
paragraphs and no headings or bulleted points. Essays should be
4. between 3 – 4 double-spaced pages (one-inch margins, page
numbers and 12-point font). Essays longer than 4.5 pages will
not be eligible for the competition.
All Tippie undergraduates are eligible for the contest. Essays
should be submitted to the appropriate dropbox folder on
ICON. Your essay will be evaluated for originality/plagiarism
through turnitin.com. You must cite all sources that you use,
particularly where you quote text directly.
Thanks to the generosity of Mary and Dempsey Prappas,
monetary awards will be given to the students whose essays are
considered by the essay contest external review judges to be
top-ranked. First, second, and third-place winners will receive
$3,000, $2,000, and $1,000, respectively, to be credited toward
their U-bills assuming they are continuing students at the UI.
Finalists for the 2016-2017 contest will be determined in mid-
May 2017 and will have to agree to revise their essay over the
summer to be eligible for the final round of judging in
September 2017. Winners will be announced in October 2017.
[1] The article is available on ICON and also
at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-
there/wp/2016/04/20/one-of-the-nations-largest-pension-funds-
could-soon-cut-benefits-for-retirees/ (Links to an external site.)
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Law
Title:
Introduction to Law Ethics Writing Assignment
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![Then watch the video.
Background to Case
The Washington Post presents an interesting scenario
surrounding the Central States Pension Fund.[1] For this
assignment, you should read the article in its entirety and use
the facts and statements therein to answer the questions below.
Content:
Briefly, the article concerns a legal and ethical issue affecting
the rights of workers. A pension is defined as “a regular
payment made during a person's retirement from an investment
fund to which that person or their employer has contributed
during their working life.” Typically, in America, workers
contribute to a pension fund out of their earnings for 30 or more
years and then are guaranteed a monthly payment for the rest of
their life after retirement. The money in the pension fund is
invested by professional managers.
Usually, pension funds grow in value as the investments earn
interest and dividends over the years. However, the financial
crisis (driven by unethical behavior on Wall Street) caused
many pension funds to lose money. Also, retired workers are
living longer and thus drawing pensions for more years than
previous generations. Because of this, new legislation was
passed in Congress that “for the first time allowed financially
distressed multi-employer plans to reduce benefits for retirees if
it would improve the solvency of the fund.”
The Central States Pension Fund (“the Fund”), detailed in the
article, is faced with a difficult choice. The Fund does not have
enough money to pay out all the money it has promised to past
and future employees. If the Fund continues to pay out pension
at its current rate, it is projected to become insolvent (out of
money) by 2025. If this happens, the Fund may not be able to
pay out any money to current or future retirees. This would
negatively impact 407,000 current and future retirees.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)