Ethical audit

Objective of this Assignment:

Ethic audits ensure that behaviours in an organization are adopted via their code of conduct, and policies and procedures. With this assignment you will learn how to conduct an ethical audit in the organization.

Pre-Assignment Instructions:

To prepare you for this assignment, read the module 10 content and follow the embedded learning activities.
Read the following articles to better understand the concepts of ethical audits in an organization. You can also conduct your own research to explore the issue in greater detail.
Recommended articles:

Ethical Audits – What they are and why you need one : https://www.vwa.co.uk/blog/news/5914/
How to Conduct an Ethical Audit: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/conduct-ethical-audit-16101.html
How to Conduct an Ethics Audit: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0410agenda_social.aspx
Checklists For Creating & Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Culture: http://ethicscentre.ca/EN/resources/Checklists-Dev_&_Maint_Eth_Corp.pdf
Assignment Tasks:

Think of a workplace ethic issue that you have previously experienced or a hypothetical situation in which ethical issues have emerged in a workplace.
Based on your learning, create an Ethical audit checklist that can be applied to any organization, in order to ensure it is performing within an ethical environment in its business operation. Your assignment needs to describe the context and the areas for audit. For example, employees recruitment and training, customer, procurement, operation, etc.
Your assignment is to be submitted in MS WORD format. It should be submitted with the following guidelines:
Include a cover page with the course code and course name, the assignment number, the title of your assignment, your student ID, your name, the instructor’s name, and the date the assignment is created.
Ensure the first page of your assignment has the title at the top of the page and the sections of your report have headings and subheadings to chunk your paper into sections for each of the topics you are writing about.
Font should be either Calibri or Arial, 11pt. Text must be double spaced but table may be single spaced.
You must cite all your sources of information using APA formatting.
Create a separate reference page that lists all of your sources that you have cited in text. Sources include software used. For citation and referencing examples, see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html