PHI 370 Business Ethics Concepts & Cases
- Description
- Curriculum
PHI – 370 Business Ethics is a self-study course. This course consists of eight lessons based on the readings from the textbook. There are no formal homework assignments, but students are encouraged to answer all the review questions at the end of each chapter to ensure that they have understood the relevant course material are well prepared for the final exam.
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction into the concept of values, morality, as well as cultural beliefs and upbringing in all areas of business, from consumer rights to corporate social responsibility. The course provides a clear and practical examination of the type of ethical dilemmas students may eventually face at the workplace. The fundamental principles of philosophy are taught in a purely business context. The goal of this course is to prepare students to think rigorously about the ethics and social responsibility of people and organizations and to personally behave ethically and in a socially responsible manner in their roles as human beings, organizational citizens, and leaders in organizations
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Deal with the eventual ethical dilemmas they will come to face in the business environment and workplace.
- Have a personal code of ethics to guide them in anticipating, avoiding, and grappling with ethical dilemmas.
- Identify constitutional liberties and rights and describe how controversies over such issues shape much of the content of American politics.
- Commit to influence others to anticipate, avoid, and grapple constructively with ethical dilemmas.
- Understand concepts about ethics, character, integrity, honesty, morality, and social responsibility they can apply to organizations and their personal lives
- Apply models, approaches, and tools for analyzing and synthesizing ethical issues in organizations and in their personal lives.
- Have a personal action plan to behave ethically and socially responsibly.
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Chapter 1: Ethics and Morality -
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Chapter 2: Ethical Principles in Business
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Chapter 3: Ethic of Care
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Chapter 4: Ethics in the Marketplace
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Chapter 5: Ethics and the Environment
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Chapter 6: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
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Chapter 7: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
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Chapter 8: Ethics and the Employee
