Business Ethics

This course examines the origins, principles, and practices of business ethics within the context of the work environment. Students will examine, analyze, and discuss ethical issues concerning consumerism, civil rights, ecology, technological change (cyberethics), and social responsibility from a moral and philosophical perspective. Topics will include: contemporary conceptual frameworks for business ethics, the corporation in society, business in its diverse moral contexts, marketplace and workplace issues, and the moral manager. Both descriptive and case studies of unethical decision making in business will be analyzed.

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