MOR 573 Ethical and Social Issues in Business - USC Marshall

15APPENDIX: PROJECT DETAILSTeam meetings with instructor during weeks of Jan 29, March4, April 8,Each team needs to meet with me outside class three times over the course of thesemester to review your progress and brainstorm improvements. Each time, we will need tofind one hour that works for me and all the team members. I will be available evenings andweekends if necessary.Program for class on Feb 26, 28The goal on these days is to (a) give you an opportunity to pull together a "preliminaryassessment", (b) bring the class up to date on what you have learned, (c) give us anopportunity to challenge your thinking.I realize that these are just "interim reports" so there will be gaps where you simplyhaven't had a chance to do the research or do your analysis yet. But by trying to do aspolished a presentation as you can, you will see where the gaps are more clearly.Each team will get 15 minute for their oral presentation -- that's a firm time limit! Youmay find you have too much material to cover in just 15 minutes -- but this limit will force youto think about what's most important in what you want to say. Then we'll have 10-15 minutesfor Q&A from the audience.You should use Powerpoint Slides and bring Handouts for the entire class. Yourhandouts can include charts, data, whatever backup material you think will be helpful to us. Inyour Ppt presentation, since this is just an interim report, it's ok for you to have a couple of"placeholder" slides -- i.e. ones were you say, "This is where we plan to discuss x, y, z, buthaven't got the material ready yet..."You should also use this as an opportunity to educate me on your topic: Please bringme copies of the most valuable documents you have found so that I can read up on the issueand help you move forward.Here is a general outline of your presentation:1. Summary: the main issue and your proposed solution2. The relevant facts3. The key stakeholders4. The significant rights, interests and issues (legal, economic, social,moral/ethical) for each stakeholder5. The main options for resolving the problem6. The significance of the various options for the various stakeholders: how are theirrights and concerns affected?7. Recommendation and rationale for this recommendationSome observations: The main issue: it's often not easy to identify the main issue: people will have differentopinions on how to define the "real issue" at stake in any given problem area. Decidingwhat the real issue is -- and convincing us that your characterization is correct -- mayrequire of you some analysis of the facts (step 2). The relevant facts: your view of the relevant facts might change as you get to the laterparts of the analysis Stakeholders are any people affected by the issue: sometimes, some stakeholders may notbe obvious at first sight -- they may be people far “downstream” or “upstream.” Options: there are often many possible options: focus on the plausible ones -- not bogusones. And it's usually important for the clarity of your argument that you identify just 2, or3,or at most 4 main ones -- that's not always easy to do: the main ones are the ones that