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This course focuses on corporate behavior and decision making from the context of ethical and global issues; the influence of political environmental, legal, regulatory, and technological issues and the impact of diversity on organizations. Through readings and case studies, an understanding of a wide variety of workplace issues, such as discrimination, product safety, international operations, right to privacy, advertising and product safety is developed.
Learning Outcomes: - Think critical and comprehensively about ethical issues facing business.
- Defend viewpoints, evaluate issues, and analyze new information related to moral and ethical conduct required in business.
- Distinguish between moral, ethical, prudent, and law theories of ethical behavior.
- Interpret types of utilitarian theory.
- Identify, interpret, analyze ethics related articles and evaluate the arguments.
- Conduct a synopsis of a case by identifying major issues relating to ethical responsibilities; analyzing and evaluating issues and decisions made; recommend strategies, actions, or alternatives to follow.
- Recognize paradoxes and dilemmas in the field of business and understand the difficulties in resolving them.
- Identify issues in the workplace that managers face.
- Clarify one's own personal values relating to business ethics.
- Acquire exposure to international dimensions of ethics and cultures.
- Interpret views on social responsibilities of a corporation from the viewpoint of shareholders and stakeholders.
- Explain the normative theories of business ethics.
- Contrast governmental regulation versus self-regulation.
- Contrast individual responsibility and management system responsibility.
- Compare and contrast the following views to consumers: contract, care and social costs.
- Explain employee’s right to know about workplace hazards.
- Outline the arguments supporting or opposing whistle-blowing.
- Characterize what actions constitute sexual harassment.
- Explain the salespersons responsibilities concerning information disclosure to the consumer.
- Compare and contrast the notion of “intellectual property,” as opposed to “physical property,” and explain the new challenges presented by recent technological advances.
- Summarize problems encountered by multinational corporations when conducting business in other countries.
- Contrast gift giving, bribery, and corruption.
- Summarize the principle of readdress.
- Introduce self and explain course expectations.
- Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
- Evaluate information critically and competently.
- Access information efficiently and effectively.
- Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
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