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ETHICAL AND/OR SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Due Wednesday 11:59pm, Week 14 – (20%)
The Ethical and/or Sustainability report is an individual assignment.
You have to select a suitable case study related to ICT or Engineering. The case
study is an event or an occurrence of a situation related to ethical and/or
sustainability issues. For instance, a newspaper article about a company’s
disposal of toxic waste damaging to the environment, case study about security
of patience information in hospital environment.
You are to research for information relating to your chosen event or occurrence.
These can be publications, news articles, research papers, books, etc. You are
also to find similar cases reported in other industry sectors or countries. This is
to compare the difference between the outcomes to your chosen case study. You
are to find the outcomes of the event or occurrence and provide judgement and
analysis of the resulting outcome. With this judgement and analysis relate it to
the relevant industry sector’s professional code of conduct. For instance, Hard
Disk Disposal when content still exists on it, disposal of Mobile Phones, disposal
of Waste Water from Textile Industries, are there any professional codes of
conduct for such a task.
For this report referencing will be marked. The Harvard Style of referencing
is to be used, and your referencing should be inline. There should not be any
references listed which are not inline references. As a guide, there should be
no less than 10 references for such a document. Referencing relates to your
analysis of the topic, content, content organisation, content presentation and
professionalism.
The length of the report has to be a minimum of 10 pages. The format is unlike
your project management report. This report is purely an academic report
requiring proper referencing and format. It must have a Title,
Abstract/Executive Summary, Table of Contents, Introduction, Body,
Conclusion, and Bibliography. Refer to learning guide for the format of report
and for the marking rubric. Marks will be awarded for professionalism.
You are to submit your report with an Assignment Cover sheet. This can be
found in the learning guide at the end or online under the schools website.