MGT 589 - Business Ethics

Description:
Examination of organizational and professional ethics through a behavioral lens with emphasis on making ethical decisions in these contexts.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: admission to a College of Business Graduate Program.

Credits:
(5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of legal statutes, professional guidelines, and institutional policies that guide professional behavior.
Compare and contrast ethics philosophies, frameworks, morals and values.
Demonstrate knowledge of issues in organizational ethics, including: corporate misconduct, employee deviance, and ethics of business strategy.
Relate theories of stakeholder management to organizational ethics.
Employ strategies for managing others in an ethical way and strategies encouraging others to be ethical.
Demonstrate knowledge of ethical decision-making models and be aware of the evolution of these models.
Identify constraints on ethical decision- making, including situational pressures, individual bias, and judgment errors.
Utilize compensatory strategies for improving ethical decision-making.
Demonstrate knowledge of individual differences in ethical decision -making.
Comprehend the short and long-term implications of decision-ethicality.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
2/5/2015

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