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)

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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) farha.hassan@nct.edu.om Section 10
b) a.noureena@nct.edu.om Section 7 /11 /12
c) mohammed.kutpudeen@nct.edu.om Section 3 / 6
d) abdulkadir.shehu@nct.edu.om Section 1/ 13
e) mushtaq.ahmed@nct.edu.om Section 8
f) mudasir.shagoo@nct.edu.om Section 5
g) muhammad.tahir@nct.edu.om Section 4
h) shamsuddin.khuthbuddin@nct.edu.om 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.
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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
300 words for 10 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
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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?
(5 marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
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.
(5 marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
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?
(5 marks) (Answer must be 150 words)
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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)