Course Overview
|
Course Synopsis
|
Business ethics is applied ethics. It is the application of our understanding of what is good and right to that assortment of institutions, technologies transactions, activities, and pursuits that we call Business. The primary aims of the course are:
What business ethics is in general? Several specific approaches to business ethics, which together furnish a basis for analyzing ethical issues in business. The morality of the market system as a whole: how is it justified and what are its strengths and weaknesses form an ethical point of view? The ethics of various market practices. There the emphasis is no longer on the ethics of the market system considered as a whole, but on the ethics of particular practices within the market system: price fixing, manipulation of supply, price discrimination, bribery, and market concentration.
The two basic problems related to the natural environment: pollution and resource depletion combined with the several consumer issues, including product quality and advertising.
The issue of job discrimination and the issue of conflicts between the individual and the organization.
|
Course Learning Outcomes
|
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Know the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business.
- Impart the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions
- Identify the moral issues involved in the management of specific problem areas in business
- Understand the social technological and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise
- Solve the actual moral dilemmas faced by businesses
|
Course Calendar
|
|
3
|
Theory of Ethical Relativism
|
|
4
|
Moral Developments and Moral Reasoning
|
|
9
|
Universalizability & Reversibility
|
|
14
|
Morality in International Contexts
|
|
15
|
Free Market & Planned Economy
|
|
17
|
Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith
|
|
20
|
Competition and the Market
|
|
24
|
Oligopolies and Public Policy
|
|
26
|
Forests and Biodiversity
|
|
27
|
Ethics & the Environment
|
|
29
|
The Ethics of Pollution control
|
|
33
|
The Ethics of Consumer - Production and Marketing
|
|
34
|
Consumers & Information
|
|
35
|
The contract view of business duties to consumers
|
|
37
|
The social costs view of the manufacturers's duties
|
|
43
|
Advertising and Self-Regulation
|
|
45
|
Ethics of Job Discrimination
|
|
|
|