MIS741 – Analysing the Impact of Digital Business Trimester 1, 2018

Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report

(Individual)

DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 9, Sun 13th May 2018, 11:59PM
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 30%
Learning Outcome Details
Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)
ULO 2: Justify resolutions to ethical dilemmas faced by IS
professionals resulting from competing personal, organisational
and client interests using ethical theories and frameworks.

GLO8 Global Citizenship

ULO 3: Present convincing resolutions to ethical dilemmas in
written form, and self-evaluations in written and oral form.

GLO2 Communication

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Description / Requirements
This is an individual assignment where you will research and then produce a written Moral Dilemma
Analysis report using the Ethical Decision-Making Framework introduced in topics 3 and 4. The
moral dilemma is as follows:
Is it moral to expect professional workers to work beyond the hours they are paid?
For this moral dilemma, assume a company meets its service deadlines by assuming workers will
work beyond their 8 hour paid shift. The staff are well aware of this expectation and are working
unpaid overtime in order to keep their jobs. You are a new manager overseeing the organisation
and have just learnt of this practice becoming part of the company culture. It appears the CEO is
well aware of this expectation as well.

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While the case above relates to professional staff, you may investigate the morality of this issue for
any type of professional or non-professional staff working in any industry.
Research work for the Moral Dilemma Analysis report
It is essential that you do not decide whether the above dilemma is moral or not until after you
have conducted research. The report is not about your personal views about the dilemma. Instead,
you will investigate and argue whether this practice is moral based only on research evidence/facts.
More specifically, the research you undertake should enable you to determine the answers to all
the questions (directly or indirectly) in the Ethical Decision-Making Framework in relation to a range
of stakeholders. You will then come to your conclusion after this investigation.
The research sources you must find and cite in the body of your report will be credible academic
resources (e.g. journal articles, PhD theses, conference papers, credible research studies). Identify
articles in particular which report empirical research (e.g. experiments, surveys, case studies,
interviews) relating to the moral dilemma (not opinions of researchers) in terms of how it might
affect one or more of the following types of stakeholders (see topic 3):
• The organisation selling products/services
• Individual staff
• The organisation’s business clients
• The public
• The industry / profession
You must ensure that your research and analysis of this dilemma is balanced. It is typical for people
and organisations to focus on their own self-interest (e.g. revenue, profits), and justify the impact
on other stakeholders (e.g. clients, the public, staff). This is not a balanced approach. Your research
and analysis should instead include all potential negative implications (based on the ethical
decision-making framework) for the various stakeholder groups. As required by the ACS Code of
Professional Conduct, the most important stakeholder group is “the public”, not the organisation,
not the staff, etc. The public does not necessarily benefit when organisations make a profit!
For this reason, a report focusing mainly on the organisation manufacturing the product/providing
a service and/or the individual staff will not receive a good result in this assignment. You are only
required to consider the stakeholder types listed above, and no other stakeholder types are
required.
One academic research article to get you started is as follows, but this is more of an opinion article
written by researchers. You can cite this one in your report, but no other opinion articles like this:
Is working more overtime making us happier? [electronic resource], 2012, New York : Bloomberg,
2012.
https://ift.tt/2I5dzcj
ry=%26quot%3bIs%26quot%3b+working+more+overtime+making+us+happier&cli0=FT1&clv0=Y&a
uthtype=sso&custid=deakin&type=0&site=eds-live&scope=site

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The research you use for your report should focus on sources discussing empirical research (e.g.
experiments, case studies, surveys, etc). An example of such an article to get you started, and which
you can cite, is the following:
Tsai, M., Nitta, Mi., Kim, S. & Wang,W. 2016. ‘Working Overtime in East Asia: Convergence or

Divergence?’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 46:4, pages 700-722. <https://ift.tt/2rsPx4N
b.deakin.edu.au/10.1080/00472336.2016.1144778>

Topic 4 of this unit also highlights that it is important to consider short (1-3 year), medium (5-10
years) and long-term (50+ years) impact of the moral dilemma on each of the above stakeholders.
Your investigation, particularly based on research articles relating to other professions, is an
indication of the positive and negative medium and/or long-term implications for the IS industry.
The focus of your research should therefore be on quality evidence of the implications of the
practice stated in the dilemma above. This means that “old” research is acceptable for this report. It
is preferable to focus on both new and older quality evidence, than low quality recent evidence.
What to include in the Moral Dilemma Analysis report?
You will write an individual Moral Dilemma Analysis report as follows (after background work):
• A cover page with the assignment title (“Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report”),
unit code and name, your name and student ID, and the word count. This cover page is not
included in the word count.
• A maximum of 2,500 words for the report body, using the Ethical Decision-Making
Framework introduced in topics 3 and 4, to analyse the moral dilemma stated above.
o The report will be a convincing argument on what you conclude as the morality of
the dilemma outlined above, not based on your opinion or personal views, but
instead based on solid research and evidence/facts using the framework. The report
will have a very short introduction, multiple sections/subsections, and conclusion.
Note that in-text citations (see next point) are included in the word count.
• A reference list at least fourteen (14) high quality research sources cited in the report body
in the Harvard format style using the “(Author, Year)” approach to in-text citation. This
reference list is not included in the word count.
Word limit
See the rubric for word limit penalties. The word count is calculated by selecting the text of
assignment (see above), and using MS Word’s word count feature and unchecking the “Include
textboxes, footnotes and endnotes”.
You must cite the minimum of fourteen (14) research sources (see the ‘Research work…’ section) in
the body of the report. Unlike Assignment 1, you must use the “(Author, Year)” or “Author (Year)”
approach to in-text citations in this report as shown in the following Harvard formatting guidelines:
https://ift.tt/2o33upv
Further requirements for the report are as follows:

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• The report cannot include any quotes, images/figures or summarises from other sources.
The entire report must be in your own words. In particular, review the following guidelines
about paraphrasing (note that ‘summarising’ and ‘quoting’ is not permitted in this report).

o https://ift.tt/2rrMbiq
support/referencing/summarising-paraphrasing-quoting

• You cannot use scanned tables (or images with text) and insert this in your report. All text in
the body of the report, even if it is scanned, will be added to your word count. Please see
rubric for details of the penalties which apply to exceeding the word count for this report.
Submission Instructions
The final submission for the Moral Dilemma Analysis report must be one (1) single file, named
surname_MIS741_T1_year_assign2 (e.g. Liang_MIS741_T1_2018_assign2), including:
• A cover page with the assignment title (“Assessment 2 – Moral Dilemma Analysis report”),
unit code and name, your name and student ID, and the word count.
• The Moral Dilemma Analysis report
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