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Each student will write an analysis of an assigned case. The analysis, which must be five to seven pages in length, will use the case analysis method presented in class. This requirement will be discussed in class and posted on Blackboard.
The case analysis topic will be announced early in the class. There will be a more detailed template available.
- Case Analysis Outline
Answer each of the following questions as you prepare a written case analysis. The written case should be in essay format, MLA style, and should address each of the following questions. Suggested lengths are provided for some of the sections to give you an idea how to allocate your analysis.
1. What is/are the ethical issue(s) in the case?
• Identify the issue(s) in a couple of sentences. This is short and concise.
• Briefly, in your own words and in a couple of sentences, why is it an issue?
• What ethical models are relevant to the issue? For ethical models, consider those discussed in class, for example, utilitarianism, deontology, and Rawlsian fairness.
• (Question 1 is the first paragraph of your case analysis. It sets the stage for your analysis. (This section of the paper should be one half to one page.)
2. What are the pertinent facts of the case?
• Distinguish between more important and less important facts.
• Include as a fact if a code of ethics is available to guide the actors in the case. (Company code of ethics? Industry code? Professional code?) Also include as a fact if specific laws or regulatory standards ons are involved in the case.
• These facts must be the foundation for your alternatives and recommendations.
• (This section of the paper should be one half to one page.
3. Stakeholders, harms, benefits, and rights
• Who are the important stakeholders in the case?
• So far in the case, who has been harmed? In what ways? Who has received benefits? What specific benefits were received?
• So far in the case, whose rights or what rights have been exercised? How? Whose rights or what rights have been denied?
Ø Frame the harms, benefits, and rights in terms of where things stand in the case right now. Later, in alternatives (Question 6), you’ll discuss possible future effects on stakeholders.
Ø Primary and secondary stakeholders are discussed in the first chapters in the text.
Ø (This section of the paper should be one half to one page.)
4. 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! )
5. 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.)
6. 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.)
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• The individual case analysis should be 6 to 8 pages in length with one more page added
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Potential Problems in Labor Standards under Amazon Mechanical Turk
Despite the fact, Amazon Mechanical Turk pays peanuts, their ever-growing numbers of
people relying on the platforms for their income. Research findings claim individual earning on
mechanical Turk fall on the trap since there is no work in their area. Surprisingly, Mechanical
Turk happens to be the only available choice for people struggling in the specific area. The
Amazon takes 20% of the fee on the work (Pittman & Kim 260). However, the workers have
continuously launched claims about their termination regardless of whether the worker had
received notice.
In the Amazon Mechanical Turk case study, researchers have identified an ethical issue
in which the platform found culpable of underpaying worker for the task completed terming it as
exploitative digital jobs. For instance, the worker on the rig ends up earning as little as $2 an
hour to complete transcription task. In reality, Amazon's Mechanical Turk digital has failed to
consider transparency and accountability while rewarding its online work with pay which too
little to sustain them (Pittman & Kim 260). The MTurk raises the eyebrows as majority gave
their opinions by regarding the conduct as unacceptable since the workers have deprived
fundamental rights to demand dialogue for collective bargaining. The employer faces challenges
of redressing wrongdoing by exploiting the workers with low pay for work completed.
The utilitarianism is the best model suitable for determining right or wrong which judges
the outcomes (Loe, Linda & Phylis Mansfield 189). In this case scenario, we may adopt
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consequentialism theory which provides clarity on how to define moral for such employers like
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk which exploits its worker with low pay. The utilitarianism is the
moral framework which stresses more on justice and human rights. The utilitarian approach is
significantly apply applied in making decisions with impacts to a large number of people since it
is best I weighing good and bad effect produced by the action.
The pertinent facts in the case involving the Amazon's Mechanical Turk primarily relate
to the potential for labor standard. The more important point about the AMT case is that the
online platform provides service such as crowdsourcing for a person to complete web-based
assignments for low pay (Rouse 305). Secondly, AMT service has gained attention to many for
psychological experimentation to find out the information concerning the work or subject. The
MTurk has controversial. The labor laws and regulatory bodies are yet to take action to address
the situation affecting the workers in the AMT platform. Additionally, evidence shows the
regulators have limited knowledge and awareness concerning the crowdsourcing industry thus
found in laxity to deal with ethical issues and problems arising from such crowdsourcing
industry. The Amazon Mechanical Turk digital work lack benefits to the...
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