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DBA 7632 Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

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DBA 7632 Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
psy 3019 history and systems of psychology

Description

Explores the growing academic literature in business ethics and provides students an opportunity to investigate ethical issues using their field of specialty as context. Different theories and frameworks for investigating issues are discussed and applied to a range of issues, both domestic and international. An evaluation of the institutions that structure the interaction of corporations and individuals in the conduct of business is explored. Issues include corruption in host countries, management of values in modern corporations, ethical status of the corporation, financial transactions, and gender discrimination in the context of cultural differences. Exposes business practices and economic assumptions and brings contemporary challenges to the level of professional standards. The course also examines corporate decision-making structures and the interface between ethical theory and business practice.

Outcomes

  1. Critically evaluate situations based upon a foundation of influential and relative types of normative ethical theory.
  2. Analyze the characteristics of a corporation to determine the purpose the corporation should serve in society.
  3. Interpret and discuss the changing nature of the relationship employees have with the companies for which they work.
  4. Analyze and discuss the universal moral norms that are applicable to international business.
  5. Discuss the ethical issues centered upon the obligations marketers have to disclose information to the public.
  6. Discuss the ethical issues centered upon the very important issues of finance and accounting in relation to the professional standards of the practitioners.
  7. Analyze and discuss the ethical issue centered upon intellectual property.
  8. Analyze and discuss the ethical issues centered upon climate change, declining fresh water supply, and the supply of oil.
  9. Analyze and discuss the policies put in place to address the issues of diversity, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Ethical theory and business (Rev: 8th ed.)

Publisher: Prentice Hall (2009)

Author: Beauchamp, T. L., Bowie, N. E., & Arnold, D. G.

ISBN: 9780136126027

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]