This final essay is not your typical essay assignment, so please read the requirements closely and then access or download the final essay template.
Instructions:
- For this essay, I would like you to pretend that you are writing a proposal for a company that you would like to start. You don’t necessarily have to want to start a company to write this; but you will need to tap into your creative impulses and imagine a company. I have provided you with a proposal template for you to use. You can use the same outline and headers that I have provided; however, whenever you see curly brackets {text}, that’s an indication that you must write in those spots. I have placed a description of what you should write in each section within curly brackets.
- You can choose whether it is a for-profit business or a non-profit organization, or whether your company is focused on developing products or services or both; but for this essay, your company must have a distinctive social mission. This means that “to generate/increase profits” is not a sufficient justification for the company or explanation of its goals. The company must see its purpose and goals, to use Naughton’s terminology, as “developing products and services that enhance the common good, and developing communities of work that help people to develop.” In this context, Naughton continues, “profit is a means to achieve these ends.” Thus, however you structure your company or choose its products or services, it must aim to have a positive impact on society as one of its main goals.
- The essay takes the form of a part of a business proposal. This means that you are writing this to persuade someone to invest in your company. So, try to be persuasive, and don’t be scared to be personal. The type of investors that would invest in this type of company would want to know that you have a passion for the company’s mission, and want to ensure that this kind of passion resonates well with your experience and overall life goals.
- Your imaginary prospective investors (= targeted audience), who will be reviewing your pitch, are very committed to ethical leadership, and have a history of only investing in companies that demonstrated exceptional ethical leadership. You will therefore have to describe to them how you will provide ethical leadership at an organizational level and through certain workplace policies. I have outlined some of the categories that you must fill in as part of your proposal.
- Common sense: of course, there are many elements that are contained in here which would not be spelled out in a common business proposal; and conversely, there are several elements in a common business proposal that would need to be included here which currently are not. Nonetheless, I take it that this is an interesting and creative way of synthesizing the course materials and having you apply it “top down” as you try to imagine creating an ethically sound company with a strong social mission.
This assignment will be assessed through
Turnitin.
I would be interested in a Coffee Shop and have some employees with special needs. If this is a possibility, that would be nice
This is the link for the template.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WMGDx5HvIrbl0FxciRj3YZbu4Yx4KM9eIcrB5GHGrKM/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WMGDx5HvIrbl0FxciRj3YZbu4Yx4KM9eIcrB5GHGrKM/edit?usp=sharing
