This course studies and analyzes ethical issues facing the world of business and society today and identifies approaches available when dealing with or resolving complex ethical issues.
Quarters Offered
Spring
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
- Define ethics as it relates to business
- Understand and describe a framework by which to identify and analyze how business persons make ethical decisions and deal with ethical issues
- Identify and analyze ethical issues and decisions by discussing, studying, and analyzing actual company cases and current events
- Research and present an ethical problem facing local, national, and/or international business today
Course Content Outline
- Importance of business ethics
- Stakeholder relationships
- Social responsibility
- Corporate governance
- Business ethics issues
- Institutionalization of business ethics
- Ethical decision making and leadership
- Moral philosophies and values
- Role of ethical culture and relationships
- Developing an effective ethics program
- Globalization of ethical decision making
Department Guidelines
The syllabus must contain evaluation/grading guidelines, class environment/expectations/rules, course learning outcomes, and a disability services statement. A schedule must be provided to students that contains content covered (text chapters, topics, etc.), tentative test dates (to include final date/time). If an LMS or similar site is used for the course, it must be created following the Quality Matters (QM) principals outlined in the QM workbook questions. These documents should be reviewed with BIM Faculty at least two weeks prior to class start.