Business Ethics

The purpose of this course is to strengthen the ability to anticipate, critically analyze, appropriately respond to, and provide leadership regarding, ethical issues you will confront as employees and eventually as managers of people, projects, and enterprises.

This course is designed and structured to provide the student with the mental tools to understand the different ethical issues faced by modern business and organizations. The course will strengthen their ability to anticipate, analyze, and critically evaluate appropriate responses to workplace ethical dilemmas. It will provide students with the knowledge of how to provide ethical leadership in developing workable solutions of ethical dilemmas that confront and involve employees, co-workers, and managers. It will inform their leadership of people, projects, and enterprise organizations they may be involved and otherwise entrusted for the ongoing moral development of that organization.

Objectives

a. General: Applied Ethics in the work environment has become increasingly made a singular cornerstone on which to build businesses and organizations throughout the world. It is imperative that students entering business or professional life, management, and leadership roles and the professions understand the methodology and the means for solving ethical dilemmas in their environments. This course is a first step in being able to bring the student to both understand and appreciate the ethical dilemmas of society as that society is influenced by organizations and business and the responsibilities of business and organizations to provide the ethical leadership not only for their organizations but as exemplary example of ethical leadership for society.

b. Specific: Students will be made aware of ethical dilemmas they have seen and not seen and did know and did not know existed and will be provided with the critical thinking tools necessary to singularly, and collectively with others, be capable of bringing resolution and acceptable solutions to the ethical dilemmas they face in business and a business faces with the society it serves. Students will on the completion of this course be capable of: 1. The Introduction to the approaches of applied ethical decision making. 2. Differentiate different types of ethical theory that impact Business Ethics 3. Determine differences and significance of Social Engineering vs. Business Ethics. 4. Identify contemporary applied ethics dilemmas and undertake the scientific method to resolution 5. Develop moral benchmarks by determining the contemporary ethical dilemmas facing business and organizations today 6. Create codes of ethics - codes of conduct using utilitarianism and alternatively rational methodology. 7. Evaluate acceptable levels of enforcement of Business Codes of Conduct and public perceptions of same. 8. Formulating and designing effective code of ethics and conduct for employees and management. 9. Review the generally accepted process for how good people make tough choice 10.The Practice of Ethics Application of those ethical standards common to all organizations to solving and resolving internal and external ethical dilemmas that face organizations 11, The Practice of Ethics models a universal code of conduct for all business internationally using various proposals and suggestions from contributors around the globe. 12. Examining and determining ethical dilemmas that may impact the organization or the workplace 13. Evaluating the impact of various ethical decisions and outcomes before they are enacted in order to permit the best selection of the most ethical and prudent action(s) to undertake. 14. Deciding the proper ethical course of action under the pending circumstances that meet the existing aims and ideals of the organization while projecting and developing new ones that may involve higher ethical standards as the organization and the individuals ethically mature within the environment.

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