Regulatory Standard

1. What are the alternative courses of action to remedy the problem that you have identified? Who must act in each alternative?

• Provide three distinct alternatives for the most important ethical issue you identify in Question 1.

• The three alternatives should address a range of actions about that one issue only.

• (This section should not exceed one page. Do not analyze the alternatives here! )

2. . Thoroughly evaluate the alternatives, their outcomes, and their possible effects on all of the parties involved.

• For each alternative: what is the effect on each important stakeholder if this course of action is followed?

• Are there any effects on stakeholders whom you do not consider “important”?

• Do these alternatives satisfy the ethical model you consider most relevant?

• (This can be a lengthy analysis as there are many stakeholders in society. It is a major part of your paper and requires you to consider all of the possibilities and their effects of the stakeholders. It should be approximately three to four pages.)

3.  Make a specific recommendation based on your analysis of the case, on the important facts that you’ve identified in Question 2, and support it with an ethical model.

A) Be sure that you state how your recommendation is tied to your analysis and facts and how it is supported by ethical models.

B) Name any specific professional code(s) of ethics that might be applicable to the entities in this case and state how the code(s) would support your recommendation. Conduct research to find current day codes of ethics that are applicable. Be sure that this is a professional code, not an industry code or regulatory standard.

• Your recommendation should be one of three alternatives that you have proposed. Use supporting data (e.g., important facts of case, analysis of alternative, support offered by specific code(s) of professional ethics, key concepts studied in the course) to argue why you recommendation is the best alternative.

• Merely stating your opinion without supporting data (e.g., important facts of case, analysis of alternative, support offered by specific code(s) of professional ethics, key concepts studied in the course, and ethical models) is not a recommendation.

• Does your recommendation provide a reasoned solution to the issue(s) you identified in Question 1?

• (This part of your paper should be approximately one page.)