The Ethical and Codes of Conduct report is an individual assignment.

You have to select a suitable case study related to ICT or Engineering sector. The case study is an event or an occurrence of a situation related to ethical and codes of conduct issues. For instance, a newspaper article about a company's disposal of toxic waste damaging the 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 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, are there any ethical and 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 4000 words. The minimum of 3750 words and maximum 4250 words is acceptable length of assignment. 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. You must use Arial font, size 11. for report. You are free to style the document the way you want.