Business Ethics

Catalog description

This course provides students with an overview of business ethics and ethical management practices. The course emphasizes the process of ethical decision-making and working through contemporary ethical dilemmas faced by business organizations, managers, and employees. The course is intended to demonstrate to students how ethics can be integrated into strategic business decisions and can be applied to their own careers. The course uses a case-study approach to encourage students as they develop their analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. Topics include an overview of business ethics; moral development and moral reasoning; personal values, rights, and responsibilities; frameworks for ethical decision-making in business; justice and economic distribution; corporations and social responsibility; corporate codes of ethics and effective ethics programs; business and society; consumers and the environment; ethical issues in the workplace; business ethics in a global and multicultural environment; business ethics in cyberspace; and business ethics and the rule of law.