Course Number: BU110
Course Title: Business Ethics

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

To define the ethical standards and social responsibility as it relates to every day life, work, and business. To interpret the ethical framework under which business conducts its everyday tasks. Students will analyze the applications of business ethics as they relate to management, employees, products, and how opportunity may generate conflict. The role of organization structure in implementing ethical standard will be discusses. Cases related to the above topics will be studied.

Specific

The student will be able to:

  1. Define ethic and virtue, good and bad, right and wrong and ethical situations or questions in business.
  2. Explain the background and history of business ethics.
  3. Describe the future of business ethics and the ethical dilemma.
  4. Define moral philosophy and describe teleology, egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and relativist.
  5. Describe the individual cognitive moral development and organizational ethical framework in light of social responsibility.
  6. Explain how organizational structure influences the values, beliefs, and norms of its members and how member groups within the
      organization shape organizational ethical decisions.
  7. Analyze the role of social institutions in general and business organizations in particular in ethical decision making and how peer
      relationship establishes a bases for ethical related performances in an organization.
  8. Describe the relationship between opportunity and conflict and the role of the organization in shaping employees moral and ethical
      conduct.
  9. Explain organizational and social ethic. Describe how organizations regulate the employees conduct in the work place.
10. Compare domestic and international organizations and how a multinational business can follow code of ethic in its
      overseas operation.