Question 1

What does CSR and CER stand for?

Bonus point if you can tell me what they mean!

Learning Outcome 1 - Ethical Business - What do businesses need to consider?

Hi all,

You will be producing a blog for this activity.  Make sure that you include photos, videos and links to relevant stories as you progress, as well as your reasoned evaluation of the company and its behaviours.

In this learning outcome, you will be explaining the ethical issues a business needs to consider in its operational activities.  You will do this by looking at the company and any news stories that are relevant.  Several companies have been in the news lately due to their unethical behaviours or because of how ethical they are trying to be.  For example, can you name a company who has recently stopped using suppliers who use child labour to make their products?  This is an example of a company taking action to improve their ethical operations.

When you have written about the business and how it manages its operational activities, you will then be able to assess how they could improve the ethics of their operations.  Use examples from other companies if this helps you to explain the points you want to raise.

To finish, as an evaluation, discuss the impact of their behaviour, either ethical or unethical, on the stakeholders of the business and on the business as a whole.  You should be able to name at least 4 different stakeholders and you can refer back to Unit 1 if you need any clarification of what a stakeholder is.

You MUST include:
- Analysis of mission statement
- Analysis of aims and objectives
- Impact on Business & stakeholders
- How could ethical practices be improved/shared?
- Evaluate the effect of sharing/introducing new ethical practices

 

Katie & Karen

Ipad apps!

Hi guys and gals,

I've been trying out the iPads over the holiday and I've had a few thoughts on what apps will work for Unit 37.  Since there are lots of different apps to learn, we'll start with just a few for the first assignment.

Assignment LO1 for Unit 37 is about what are Business Ethics and we will be watching some videos, reading some case studies and investigating what is current in the news.  I am hoping that this unit will be completely paperless and I hope to get you students thinking about how we can become more ethical in terms of recycling and the use of resources.

Two apps that I would like you to be familiar with by the end of week 1 are Socrative Student and Blogger.  Make sure you have these two apps downloaded.

Qrafter is going to be useful too.  This enables you to create QR codes for any files, websites, app links or even locations and it will also enable you to read QR codes that I have generated.  You'll need a news app like SkyNews or BBC News too.

We are going to be using apps for the majority of the work that we do, but we will also use some familar programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint at some points and probably for other units too.

In all, we want you to enjoy using the iPads and we hope that the staff, even Robert, get used to them quickly so that they can be used efficiently and effectively.  Let us know if you have any apps that you think we should investigate.

 

Katie