Anotace
Course Description:
This course is organized to familiarize students with the ethical, social and legal concepts, and to highlight the dilemmas that people usually face in media, business and social contexts. The ultimate aim of this course is to help students find the right ways of making moral and ethical choices and reflect on best practices for ethical decision making.
Required Textbook:
The Business Ethics by James Brusseau https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh9y9q8ppfn5mqu/Business_Ethics_v._1.0.pdf
The book is open access, provided under the license: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Additional Readings (Recommended):
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone by Dan Ariely
Everybody Lies: What The Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Topics To Cover Include:
• Introduction to Ethics
• Duties and Rights
• Theories of Consequence Ethics
• Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism (Documentary: Dishonesty)
• Employee’s Ethics (Movie: Shattered Glass)
• Manager’s Ethics
• Broader Societal and Organizational Issues: Discrimination, Victimization, and Affirmative Action
• Corporations and Social Responsibility
• Advertising and Consumer Protection
• Economics and the Environment
Evaluation & Grading:
Digital Assessment Test (mandatory)
Attendance (5%)
Midterm (45%)
Final Exam (50%)