Specific Instructions
Step 1: Post your question in a thread.
For your question, follow the following pattern. After reading the assigned readings, start your posting by briefly introducing a business practice or organizational issue you have experienced before or can imagine as the context. Then, continue by choosing and briefly relating an influence or persuasion (mal)practice from the three articles you have read to your context. Make sure the chosen topic is a logical choice for the context. If the relationship is not clear, explain. Finally, pose a question on the ethical issues that might be involved in the process.
A brief example could be as follows. Your manager has tasked you to sell a product (or convince others in the organization about an idea). But, you find it against your moral, religious, or ethical code of conduct. Under what circumstances do you think it is honest to follow?
Format your posting in the following manner: Include the following subtitles in Bold Font in your posting:
A- Background: Explain as needed.
B- Theory: The theoretical influence concept you think is relevant in the background section above. This section should be limited to one or two sentences only. The theoretical concepts should be from the assigned readings in module 5. If you find yourself writing a long text, you probably have not been able to identify the core theory here. It calls for deeper thinking here, then.
C- Question: In one or two sentences max, ask about the (un)ethical issue you are describing.
