Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OOSL-0041
Organization's ID:
BUS106
Organization:
Location:
Online
Length:
14 weeks (75 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Business Ethics
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to introduce business ethics. Part philosophy and part business, the course covers a wide array of ethical issues arising in contemporary business life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology. The lessons explore employee issues and responsibilities, leadership and decision making, morality, diversity, discrimination, and ethics in marketing and advertising. Corporate social responsibility is also examined, as are the topics of environmental responsibilities, global ethics, and regulation concerns in an era of increasing globalization.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Relate the market system to the need for ethics in business and distinguish it from the law and concepts of virtue and morality
  • Explore ethics in the context of relativism, psychological egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics
  • Examine the ideas of character ethic, female ethic, human rights, and ethical action
  • Illustrate the factors influencing employee issues including the right to work, employment at will, due process and employee participation, health and safety standards, family responsibilities, the right to privacy, and substance abuse testing
  • Examine the professional ethics and responsibilities of intermediaries, managerial responsibility and loyalty, and employee responsibilities to the community
  • Compare differentiation and discrimination, and examine issues involving diversity and discrimination including the work environment of women, preferential policies, and diversity policies
  • Explore the ethical considerations that govern sales, advertising, and product placement in the context of regulation of sales and advertising, and target marketing
  • Analyze international economic integration, labor in the global economy, and the regulation of global economic activities by international institutions
  • Analyze methods of ensuring morality in business including Kohlberg's method of assessing moral decision-making processes and James Weber's modification, ethical corporate structures, and federal sentencing guidelines and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Analyze the classical model and its limitations, and evaluate modern theories of corporate social responsibility including the moral minimum framework and the stakeholder theory
  • Relate eastern business philosophies, and Islamic and Jewish traditions to the intricacies of conducting ethical overseas business ventures

General Topics:

  • Ethics and Business
  • Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
  • Philosophical Ethics and Business
  • The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications
  • Corporate and Social Responsibility
  • Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights
  • Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
  • Ethics and Marketing
  • Business and Environmental Sustainability
  • Trust in Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials

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