Using the template for ethical analysis, analyze the Enron case and identify the key ethical issues that arose. What were the salient facts in the case? Who were the key decision makers and stakeholders? How did Enron’s culture contribute to the wrongdoing of its leaders and traders? How did the internal and external mechanisms of Enron’s governance structure fail? Look particularly at conflicts of interest among managers and the role of Enron’s investors, board of directors, partners, auditors, government agencies, and the press. What provisions in the Sarbanes Oxley Act address each of the major issues that arose? Combine your answers to these questions into a coherent, unified, well developed essay and consider how Enron might have foreseen and avoided the mistakes made by its leaders. Apply class readings where appropriate, providing citations and references. Use APA style.
Scope: 4 – 5 pages (1000 – 1250 words), double spaced, 12-point font.
Personal advice:
This is kinda reaserch paper, because it requires to watch Enron moive called: Enron the Smartest Guys in the Room. The instruction is above, and the professor is pretty strict to grade, be sure to avoid cheating on google, or wiki.
Moreover, please include 5 references below.
Gibney, A. (2005). Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. New York, NY: Magnolia
Pictures.
Hamilton, S. (2003). Case study: The Enron collapse. In Ethical issues in business: A
philosophical approach, 8th ed.. Edited by Thomas Donaldson and Patricia Werhane.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall.
Hartman, L. P., & Desjardins, J. (2011). Business ethics: Decision making for personal integrity and social responsibility, 2nd edition. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Irwin.
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs
United States Senate (2002). The Role of the Board of Directors in Enron’s
Collapse. Washington, D.C.
Prentice, R. (2010). Student guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2nd Edition. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.