Adler University Week 6 Ethics and Business Compliance Paper

• Differentiate between a values-based ethics program and a compliance-based ethics program.
• Recommend either a values-based ethics program or a compliance-based ethics program for your current or a former organization. Provide a rationale for your response. Note: Please do not identify workplaces or leaders by name.

Week 6 Assignment – Week 6 Assignment – Ethics and Compliance Programs

Resources

• From Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases, read “Case 9: The NCAA Has Many Balls in the Air”.
• Use Strayer Library to locate at least three academic resources for this assignment.
  • Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Instructions

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

• Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska.
  • Support your response with one example from each of these schools’ scandals.
• Examine the principal ways in which the leadership of the NCAA contributed to the ethical violations of Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska.
  • Support your response with one example from each of these schools’ scandals.
• Predict the key differences in the scenarios that occurred at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska if an effective ethics program was in place.
  • Provide a rationale for your response.
• Postulate on two actions that the NCAA leadership should take in order to regain the trust and confidence of students and stakeholders.
• Recommend two measures that the HR departments of colleges and universities should take to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
  • Provide a rationale for your response.