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Business Ethics & CSR
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The overall objective of this course is for each student to develop a critical thinking approach regarding many of the significant ethical concerns confronted by organizational members within the contemporary business world. The extent to which firms are responsible to society concerning such critical issues as the environment will be explored in depth.Description
Course Overview
Business ethics and corporate social responsibility is designed to focus on philosophical issues in business, economics, values, and justice. Emphasis will be placed upon the manager’s social and environmental responsibilities to a wide variety of stakeholders including employees, customers, and the public. Ethical dilemmas and decision-making frameworks and approaches at the personal, organizational and societal levels will be explored. This course introduces students to the relevance and importance of ethics and social responsibility in business.
What Will I Learn?
- a. Demonstrate understanding of the definition of ethics and the importance and role ethical behavior serves in the business world today.
- b. Demonstrate understanding of how business ethics relates to larger moral and philosophical frameworks.
- c. Identify various ethical issues that occur in the workplace.
- d. Evaluate an ethical situation by applying the steps involved in ethical decision making.
- e. Evaluate the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, and explore its relevance to ethical business activity.
- f. Identify the moral obligations of businesses to the environment and specifically global competitors and global stakeholders.
- g. Comprehensively analyze in professional business firm’s activities regarding ethical and social responsibility via written case study analyses.
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Introduction to Business Ethics
The overall objective of this course is for each student to develop a critical thinking approach regarding many of the significant ethical concerns confronted by organizational members within the contemporary business world. The extent to which firms are responsible to society concerning such critical issues as the environment will be explored in depth. Upon successful completion of this Business Ethics course, the student will be able to:
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