Assessment 1: Research Essay
Overview Today
A brief introduction to the course’s management, readings and assessments
Plagiarism – academic integrity
Essay writing – study research techniques
Ethics and morality
Ethics and the law
Ethics in business and corporate governance
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Readings
There is no prescribed textbook for this subject.
There are essential readings on the myRMIT studies website.
A lot of the material in the course has been developed from these two texts which are excellent references:
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Assessment Overview
Research Essay (2000 words) 40%
Due date: TBA.
Exam 60%
Scheduled during examinations period
All assessment tasks must be submitted to pass & 50% must be attained in order to pass
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Assessment 1: Research Essay
(2000 words)
Choose one of the following three topics:
Is the formal cultural system within a firm the most important factor in creating an ethical workplace? How do formal cultural systems attempt to promote ethics?
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For the essay:-
Use at least 15 references:
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Electronic and Hardcopy submission.
Turnitin
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Assessment Criteria for the Essay
Key issues relating to the question have been developed
Original and clear argument
Logical and convincing discussion
Ideas and assertions substantiated through use of high quality reference material and key academic perspectives/views used to develop arguments
Appropriate Harvard style referencing (intext and list of references)
Number and quality of references
Clear and comprehensive written style (spelling, grammar, syntax etc.)
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Harvard referencing style continued
Harvard is an author-date referencing style widely accepted in scholarly circles. Each reference is indicated in the text by the author and date of the publication cited, sometimes with added information such as page numbers. The full details of these references are listed at the end of the text in a Reference list. Please follow this information given to you by us regarding referencing.
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Harvard Referencing continued
Here is another clear guide to show our students and staff how to reference using the Harvard Referencing style.
Harvard Citation Style Examples
Follow this link for a simple and clear way to use Harvard Citation Style Examples –
The PDF for the above url is also on the on MyRMIT Learning Hub for this Course – see Assessment
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