Organisations and Ethics
2025.02 MGMT321 Assignment One
Video Presenta:on
Purpose
Assignments serve two purposes. They give you an opportunity to prac6ce skills that can only be developed through prac6ce, and an opportunity for you to demonstrate your knowledge.
In this case, the skill you’ll prac6ce is clearly communica6ng complex ideas verbally, using visual support e.g., PowerPoint slides.
Why is this a useful skill? Because in the workplace, giving a presenta6on is an opportunity for you to shine. It’s an opportunity to demonstrate your competence, to impress and to convince people – oEen people outside your immediate team – thereby increasing your influence and opportuni6es.
The knowledge we’ll use to prac6ce this skill is from Module One. There are some complex ideas in the course so it’s a good opportunity for you to prac6ce thinking about how you can convey these ideas clearly.
Skills and Knowledge
These are the skills and knowledge we’re aiming to develop and demonstrate. They’re reflected in the marking rubric.
Skills:
- Clearly communica6ng complex ideas: think about how to structure your presenta6on to help your audience follow along
- Designing clear and helpful visuals: think about how to make the slides as easy to
read as possible, and how the slides can support what you’re saying verbally
- Logic and reasoning: explain your reasoning and make a convincing argument to sway your audience
- Persuasive presenta6on skills: try to speak clearly and engage your audience
Knowledge:
- What ethics is and how it differs from e.g., opera6onal or financial considera6ons in an organisa6onal context
- What defines an ethical dilemma, even when ethical dilemmas are not always obviously so or labelled as such
- Knowledge of the ways in which the rela6onship between business and ethics is contested or open to debate
- Has developed, and can jus6fy, a personal stance on the rela6onship between business and ethics
Brief
Format: Upload a recorded video with slides. As the presenter, you can be on-screen or off- screen if you prefer. The images and audio must be clear though (please check this prior to submission).
Length: 6-8 minutes. Nothing beyond 8 minutes will be marked.
Marks: 25% of overall grade (marked out of 100)
Due: Thursday 31st July, 4pm
Create a video presenta6on answering these three ques6ons in your own words:
1. What is ethics?
2. What is an ethical dilemma? You may find it helpful to use real world examples in your explana6ons.
3. Tell your audience whether you believe ethics is relevant to organisa6onal decision- making. Explain your reasoning – tell us why we should agree with you.
Note: I would encourage you to use the textbooks and other resources provided on Talis. Remember to reference your sources – use in-text cita6ons to cite your sources. Full references in APA 7th format can be included on a final slide.
There is a page in the Assignment Support module on Nuku with technical :ps for recording videos.
Submission Details
• Your video should be uploaded to Nuku. Please download/export/save-as your
presenta6on as movie file and upload the file rather than sharing a link. We oEen run into access problems with links.
o If for some reason you choose to share a link rather than uploading a file, you are responsible for ensuring the link is accessible for marking. If we are unable to access your video during the marking period, it will not be marked.
• Accepted formats: movie files [e.g., .mp4, .mov].
• Ensure your presenta6on is original and authen:c. Submissions will be reviewed for plagiarism and inappropriate use of genera6ve AI.
• AI Use Policy: for this assignment, it is acceptable to use AI tools to help you understand course content, and to generate images or music for the slides. Do not use AI tools to write the script. for you or generate the voice-over. We want to hear your thoughts and your voice.
• Ensure your submission is a video file that includes slides and narra6on in your own voice. You may appear on screen if desired, but this is op6onal.
• Do not speed up or slow down the audio to fit the 6me limits (yes, we can tell). Presen6ng within a 6me limit is a necessary skill.