Course Syllabus
BSAD 2310 Business Ethics Fall 2021 Syllabus.docx
Course Description:
Social and moral dilemmas encountered in business and professional lives. Exploration and analysis of the ongoing conflicts between personal value systems, expected codes of behavior, evolving technology and government regulations and international issues, and standard operating procedure in the work place. Examples of major philosophical schools of ethics and how their specific theories may be applied to concrete business cases and contemporary management issues.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Students will demonstrate appropriate use of business terms and concepts in their Ethics Analysis paper.
- Students will critically analyze, evaluate and interpret information in their Ethics Analysis paper.
- Students will demonstrate their ethics and philosophy knowledge in preparing their Ethics Analysis paper and presenting their summary during an oral presentation.
Course Content:
- Classic moral philosophy normative theories of ethics, including:
- The nature of ethics and morality
- Normative theories of ethics
- Business ethics and professional ethics
- Threats to ethics: Conventionalism, relativism
- Convergence of justice and economics distribution, as pertains to:
- The nature of justice
- The Utilitarian perspective of justice
- The Libertarian approach
- John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"
- The nature of capitalism and the corporate world, as each impacts:
- Historical background of capitalism
- Key features of capitalism
- Moral justification of capitalism
- Criticism of capitalism
- Economic challenges for the 21st century
- Corporations' obligations and contributions to:
- Corporate moral agency
- Corporate responsibility - the social debate
- Business compliance vs business ethics
- Business and environmental ethics
- Issues and challenges in the corporate workplace, as related to:
- Civil liberties in the workplace
- Personnel policies and procedures
- Organizational influence in private lives
- Working conditions
- Outsourcing work
- The moral issues and dilemmas facing today's employees, in response to:
- Obligations to the firm and conflict of interest
- Obligations to third parties
- Whistle blowing: Professionalism and personal life
- Job Discrimination
- Affirmative Action: Legal and moral issues
- Sexual harassment
- The major issues of ethics in global business, impinging upon:
- Ethical principles and global business
- Ethics viewed from a multicultural perspective
- First world vs. Third world values in conflict
- Globalization: Economic and ethical challenges
- Business and society
- Consumer and product safety
- Deception and unfairness in marketing and advertising
- Business and ecology
- Ethics of environmental protection
- Animal Rights issues
Textbook:
Great news: your textbook for this class is available for free online!
Business Ethics (Links to an external site.)from OpenStax, ISBN-10: 1-947172-57-3
You have several options to obtain this book:
You can use whichever formats you want. Web view is recommended -- the responsive design works seamlessly on any device.
Important Notes:
- Any student needing accommodations should inform the instructor. Students with disabilities who may need accommodations for this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC)College Policies (thenicc.edu)early so that reasonable accommodations may be implemented as soon as possible. All information will remain confidential.
- Academic dishonesty and plagiarism will result in a failing grade on the assignment. Using someone else's ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness, is a serious offense known as plagiarism. Please see the NICC handbook for policies regarding plagiarism, harassment, etc. College Policies (thenicc.edu)
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