Legal and Ethical Issues

Catalog description

Introduction to ethics. Exploration of ethics as it relates to virtue, duty, autonomy, and life quality applied to moral problems. This course studies the ethical, legal, and social responsibilities of business, particularly in the product, resource, and labor markets. Principles of moral philosophy are applied to the analysis of corporate conduct and decision making in the United States and elsewhere. Case studies are used in the discussion of social responsibility and the respect for human dignity in organizations driven by the profit motive and competition. * General Education Requirements