Course Description
Designed to help students deal with the ethical implications of an increasingly complex business world. Covers methods for analyzing and applying personal values, recognizing organizational and environmental forces that influence ethical behavior, and heightening the student's abilities to recognize ethical issues and engage in effective moral debate in a business setting.
Athena Title
Business Ethics
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5440
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
MGMT 3000 or MGMT 3000H or MGMT 3000E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will recognize ethical implications in business decisions and identify conflicts of interest.
- Students will analyze corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management in various contexts.
- Students will apply principles of corporate governance and understand their relationship to legitimacy.
- Students will differentiate among ethical decision-making approaches and explain their strengths and weaknesses.
- Students will articulate ethical challenges facing multinational corporations.
- Students will prepare and deliver oral and written presentations that apply course concepts to real-world scenarios.
Topical Outline
- The Business and Society Relationship
- Corporate Citizenship: Corporate Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance
- Stakeholder Management
- Corporate Governance
- Strategic Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Risk, Issue, and Crisis Management
- Global Ethics: The Ethical Dilemma of the Multinational Business
- Consumer Stakeholders: Issues and Challenges around Safety, Pricing, and Disclosure
- Personal Ethics: Principles and Practicalities
- Organizational Ethics: Fostering an Ethical Culture
- Governmental Stakeholders: A Relationship of Mutual Influence
- The Natural Environment as Stakeholder: Sustainability as a Business Imperative
- The Employer-Employee Relationship: Managing the Key Internal Stakeholder
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
