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Do the exercises and show your work
7–14 weeks (4 hrs/week)
Take Business Ethics for free and do the chapter questions and cases (ethical frameworks, stakeholders, corporate responsibility, whistleblowing). Keep your answers in one public place (a repo, a shared folder or a page) as you go, with your reasoning shown.
Proof required
Link your public folder with the chapter questions and cases (ethical frameworks, stakeholders, corporate responsibility, whistleblowing), and show your self-check (Business Ethics: end-of-chapter questions).
What gets checked
- Case answers use a named framework correctly.
- Each answer weighs more than one stakeholder.
- Review questions are checked against the key.
Common mistakes
- Answers copied from a key: verifiers read the reasoning.
- Numbers with no working.
- Asking for review before the self-check.
Powstik Guide
A public folder with your worked answers to the chapter questions and cases (ethical frameworks, stakeholders, corporate responsibility, whistleblowing).
Steps
- Make a public folder or repo for this course.
- Do one chapter or problem set at a time and save it.
- Self-check: Answer each chapter's review questions before you read the answer. Where the book gives an answer key, mark yourself against it; for the rest, check each answer against the chapter text and note the section. Write down what you got wrong.
- Fix what the self-check shows, and say what you fixed.
- Ask three people who know the topic to check it.
Template
README Course: Business Ethics (OpenStax Business Ethics (free book)) What is here: Self-check result: The hardest question and why:
What gets sent back
- Answers with no working.
- Self-check not shown.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Case answers use a named framework correctly.
- Each answer weighs more than one stakeholder.
- Review questions are checked against the key.
- Pick two answers and check every step.
- Ask about one step; the answer should be clear.
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Analyse a real company decision
1–3 weeks (5–8 hrs/week)
Use what you learned. Make a case write-up of one real, public company decision with an ethical question, using two frameworks, and what you would have done and why, discussed with two people who disagree. Put it where verifiers can open it. Use public information, or data you have permission to use; never publish a real person's private details.
Proof required
Link a case write-up of one real, public company decision with an ethical question, using two frameworks, and what you would have done and why, discussed with two people who disagree, and a short note on what you decided or changed because of it.
What gets checked
- The case is real and sourced.
- Both frameworks are applied correctly and give different views where they do.
- The two discussions are summarised honestly.
Common mistakes
- Invented or unsourced figures.
- A conclusion the evidence does not support.
Powstik Guide
A case write-up of one real, public company decision with an ethical question, using two frameworks, and what you would have done and why, discussed with two people who disagree.
Steps
- Write one line: what you will show.
- Gather the real data, people or documents.
- Draft it, then read it cold the next day.
- Ask someone to mark the first claim they doubt.
- Fix it and ask three people to check it.
Template
Title: What this shows: Sources: Method: Result: Limits:
What gets sent back
- Unsourced numbers.
- Not clearly the person's own work.
- Claims more than it shows.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- The case is real and sourced.
- Both frameworks are applied correctly and give different views where they do.
- The two discussions are summarised honestly.
- Check that the work is the person's own and the sources are real.
- Ask how a number was found.
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