Marking criteria and academic integrity

Marking criteria and/or rubrics for written assessment tasks, including requirements for academic honesty, will be provided online with the detailed questions. Essay questions and rubrics will be released at least four weeks before the due date.

Extensions and penalties

All assignments and essays must be submitted through the turn-it-in link on iLearn. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission - 20% penalty). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved (in accordance with the policies and procedures). Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.

Classes

ACCG 2004 will be presented via lectures and tutorials. All lectures will be online. Tutorials of 1.5 hours, which may be undertaken either online or face-to-face, will operate throughout the semester. The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/.

In order to pass the tutorial participation section of the course, students must attend at least 80% of their scheduled tutorials in person or online. However, please do not attend face-to-face tutorials if you feel unwell. Instead, please contact your tutor as soon as you feel unwell to arrange an alternative - you will not be penalised for ensuring other students and staff are safe. 

Teaching staff will also ensure they do not attend classes when feeling unwell, so class arrangements may change at short notice on health and/or safety grounds. Please monitor iLearn regularly, and before attending any face-to-face classes, to check for any changes or updates to face-to-face classes.  

Lectures

Video lectures will be available from iLearn.

Tutorials

Tutorials begin in Week 2 and are based on the previous week’s lecture topic. Set readings for each week are available online, and discussion questions for tutorials will be released on iLearn in the week prior to the respective tutorial. Students are required to watch lectures, read the set readings, and prepare answers to the discussion questions before they attend their tutorial (in person or online). 

Prizes

Prizes for this unit are detailed on the following website:

https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/scholarships-and-financial-support/prizes

 

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

The prescribed text for this unit is:

Joseph DesJardins An Introduction to Business Ethics (6^th Edition), (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2019).

The following text may also be helpful to students that wish to deepen their understanding of business and professional ethics:

Grace, D. & Cohen, S., Business Ethics (5^th edition), (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2013).

 

Technology Used and Required

iLearn

To access the unit’s online website on iLearn, students need to navigate to the following website http://ilearn.mq.edu.au.

As iLearn will be used extensively in this subject, students need to ensure that you access this website on a regular basis by using your university username/password details. Always check the website for important information regularly as this is our main way of communicating with you.

Additional Resources

Discussion questions for tutorials, along with extra readings and references will be placed on a links under each week's topic on iLearn alongside the lectures and links to online classes and/or resources. Students need to download all relevant information to complete their tutorial questions and their learning objectives.

A reading list will be provided on Leganto (accessed via iLearn), with additional readings for each week. 

Requirements to satisfactorily complete the unit

Satisfactory completion of ACCG 2004 is an overall passing grade. There is no requirement to achieve a passing grade in each individual assessment component, including the final essay. However, since each assessment component contributes to the overall learning outcomes of the unit, students are expected to complete each assessment task in order to maximise their educational experience.

Week	Date	Title	Topic	Theory	Tutorials & Events
1	27-Jul-20	An introduction to Business Ethics	Introduction	Introduction to main ethics theories	No tutorials
2	03-Aug-20	Is Shareholder Value Enough? Capitalism and its Critics	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)	Critical Theory 1	Tutorial 1
3	10-Aug-20	A third way? Stakeholder ethics	Sustainability Reporting	Stakeholder Theory	Tutorial 2
4	17-Aug-20	Globalisation and sweatshops	Labour Outsourcing	Utilitarian ethics	Tutorial 3
5	24-Aug-20	Rights at work	Discrimination	Kantian ethics	Tutorial 4 ** Tutorial Assignment Due (Monday 24th August) **
6	31-Aug-20	Customers – right, or ripped off?	Customers	Virtue ethics	Tutorial 5
7	7-Sep-20	Whose planet? Which sustainability? Ethics and the Environment	The Environment	Deep Ecology	Tutorial 6
	14-Sep-20	BREAK
	21-Sep-20
8	28-Sep-20	Are you talking to me? Rights, responsibilities and respect at work.	Employee Rights and Responsibilities	Critical Theory 2	Tutorial 7. ** Case Study Essay Due (Friday 2nd October) **
9	5-Oct-20	Understanding Risk	Risk Management I	Organized Uncertainty and COSO	Tutorial 8
10	12-Oct-20	Applied Risk Management	Risk Management II	COSO	Tutorial 9
11	19-Oct-20	Risk Management and Safety	Risk Management III	WHS Act (2017)	Tutorial 10
12	26-Oct-20	You did what?! Ethics and risk in organizations	Organizational Behaviour	Situationism	Tutorial 11.
13	2-Nov-20	Contemporary Issues in Ethics & Risk Management	Current Issues	TBC	Tutorial 12 ** Final Essay Due (6th November) **