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Management Question and Answer

Group Assignment Case Question: 1. Explain the role of an ethics officer as a specialized managerial position. In your opinion, what are the benefits to an organization of specialization in performing the job of an ethics officer? What are the limitations? 2. Ina traditional setting, is an ethics officer more likely to hold a line position or a staff position? Could the position be either a line position or staff position? How about both? In all of your answers, be sure to consider the nature of the authority that is—or ought to be—attached to the position. 3. Who’s the ethics officer for student affairs at your school? At the University of Vermont (UVM), for example, it’s the Dean of Student, who can hand out various “sanctions,” such as warnings, probation, or dismissal. What kind of authority does the comparable officer have at your school? UVM also publishes a Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, which ‘’reaffirms the principle of student freedom coupled with personal responsibility and accountability for individual action.’’ Does your school have a student ethics code? If so, what does it have to say about your “responsibility and accountability’’ as a student.