Business Ethics

Catalog description

This course considers the ethical responsibilities of managers and corporations. Specific objectives of the course include fostering an understanding of the ethical responsibilities in becoming a manager; improving individual and group skills in identifying and analyzing ethical issues in the contexts they arise; developing action plans based upon those analyses; and providing a safe setting in which to critically examine the assumptions and values people bring to complex business decisions that raise ethical issues. Class sessions will entail case discussions, exercises and presentations of theoretical frameworks for interpreting business ethics.