FYS - Ethical Leader (Honors)

Catalog description

Students will examine the various ethical and moral issues and actions arising in contemporary organizational activities that affect individuals, groups, society, and the world. Ethical theories frame a more universalistic view of motives, intentions, actions, and consequences - for example duties and rights. Morality is the application of ethics and the treatment of values in social and cultural context - for example, compassion and integrity. Thus, the course combines theoretical and applied dimensions of morality. Importantly, the treatment of ethics and morality is approached through the prism of leadership decision-making, recognizing the importance of making sound ethical judgments in a complex world. Ultimately, this course examines what it means to be an ethical leader in practice.