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Business Ethics erm Project
The paper should be 5-7 pages (double space, typewritten) and explore the ethical and/or
philosophical dimensions of an issue in business and consumer ethics. The paper counts for 20%
of your course grade and so it should be a significant effort. You may write on any topic you
choose as long as it is a topic in business ethics, relates to the course in some way. (Below I
provide some suggestions about topics.) You can choose an issue we discuss during the semester
or some other topic that interests you. Make sure you write on an issue that you want to spend
some time thinking about. Your final paper should include a cover page and conclusion and must
be meet APA guidelines. Use citations and include a reference page. Ensure that you use some
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Possible Paper Topics for Business Ethics
(Papers are not limited to these topics! Shape the topic in your own way.)
Concept of a fair or living wage: Should businesses be required to pay workers a wage they
can live on? How does this relate to the minimum wage?
2. Sustainability, environmental responsibility, and Business
Advertising ethics: Distinguish between ethical and unethical advertising. Possible issues to
consider:
What counts as deceptive/misleading/unfair advertising
Whether or not ads can and do manipulate and undermine people’s autonomy
Ads and privacy
Inappropriate ads that do not deceive
Freedom of speech and advertising; Should advertisers have freedom of speech
that is compromised by laws prohibiting certain types of ads?
Advertising’s treatment/depiction of women
Any limits on where ads should go; places ads don’t belong? Why or why not?
Ethics of green marketing and greenwashing
Advertising to children
Pros and cons of the use of child labor in the developing world by U.S. corporations.
Do businesses have social responsibilities to the communities in which they are located!
Whv corporations do (or do not) only have negative duties and no positive duties.
Ethical and philosophical issues in product liability law (possibly considering the
McDonald’s coffee burning case and the suit about how fattening the food is)
Ethical issues in social media environments
Ethical issues in advertising to children. How it can (or can’t?) be done properly
10 Do Americans consume too much? Whv it does or doesn’t matter
11. The ethics of selling dangerous produces (e.g., guns, drugs)
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