Ethical & Social Respon of Bus

Catalog description

This course examines current business related issues of ethics, and social responsibility faced by business leaders on a day-to-day basis. It explores the rationale behind the proposition that business leaders have an ethical responsibility to society beyond that of wealth creation. It emphasizes values-based decision making and challenges the students to explore and apply their own values to issues such as: responsibility for shareholders' profit vs. responsibilities for the interests of other stakeholders; efficiency vs. community--or the conflict between profit making and employee welfare; responsibility to the consumer--quarterly profit vs. quality product; responding to the demands of shareholder activists, the media and politicians on the attack, and the challenges of the international market place.