Business Ethics FILO 3178

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Business EthicsFILO 3178

• Dr. William Frey
• ADEM 130
• X5310

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On a three by five note card

• 1. Your name include what you would like to be
  called by
• 2. Are you a freshman (1 year), sophomore (2
  years), junior (3 years), or senior (4 or more
  years)?
• 3. What is your area of academic concentration?
• 4. What is your reason for taking this course?
  (If socio-humanistic elective why this particular
  socio-humanistic elective?)
• 5. What would you like to take out of this
  course?
• 6. What is the best educational experience you
  have ever had? (Example working in an
  internship position)
• 7. Define ethics
• 8. Define business

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Course Description

• Study of the aspects of business ethics including
  ethical leadership, ethical decision-making,
  social responsibility, and corporate governance.
• These are the four business ethics themes taken
  from AACSB accreditation criteria
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
  Business
• Different from but related to ABET
• Professional Responsibility, Social and Global
  Impacts, Major Design Experience with ethics
  integration

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Content Objectives

• Ethical and Social Leadership
• Practice leadership skills as exhibited by
  business and professional exemplars
• DecisionMaking
• Integrate ethical and social considerations in to
  real world situations via frameworks and tests
• making use of an analogy between ethics and
  design
• Social Responsibility
• Develop awareness of gaps between corporate
  programs of social responsibility and existing
  problems in socio-technical systems
• Corporate Governance
• Acquire operational knowledge of codes of ethics
  and ethics training programs that form essential
  components of organizational compliance programs

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Skill Objectives

• Intelligibility
• construct and compare multiple arguments
  representing multiple viewpoints
• design arguments and provide reasons that are
  clear, coherent, and factually correct
• realize the virtue of reasonableness by
  formulating and presenting value integrative
  solutions
• Integrating Ethical Concerns
• present positions that are clearly reversible
  between stakeholders
• identify and weigh key consequences of positions
  considered
• develop positions that integrate justice,
  responsibility, respect, trust, and integrity
• Feasibility
• positions taken and the arguments formulated
  demonstrate full recognition and integration of
  interest, resource, and technical constraints.
  While solutions are designed with constraints in
  mind, these do not serve to trump ethical
  considerations.
• Moral Imagination and Creativity
• clearly formulate and frame ethical issues and
  problems
• provide multiple framings of a given situation
• identify and integrate conflicting stakeholders
  and stakes
• generate solutions and positions that are
  non-obvious and go beyond what is given in the
  situation.

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What you are going to do

• Group
• Carry out case and module group activities
• Prepare solution evaluation matrices and debrief
  to class
• Prepare summaries of ethics bowl cases
• Incident at Morales, Toysmart, Biomatrix, and
  Hughes
• Ethics of Team Work Module
• Preliminary Self-Evaluation
• Final Self-Evaluation (final exam period)
• In-depth case analysis of case debated in ethics
  bowl
• Ethics Bowl Debate
• Ethics Bowl Peer Review Panel

• Individual
• Participate in discussion and other class
  activities
• Take a midterm exam (September 21, 2007)
• Class Time and Location
• Participate fully in group activities
• Take a Final Exam
• Turn in informal class writes
• Take quizzes (if necessary)

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How you will be graded

• 200 Points Midterm Exam
• 200 Points In-Depth Case Analysis
• Summaries of Ethics Bowl cases
• In-Depth analysis of one case with Software
  Development Cycle procedure
• 100 Points Ethics of Team Work Module
• Close out group self-evaluation during final exam
  time slot
• Attendance
• 4 points subtracted for each class missed (three
  unexcused absences allowed)
• 1 point for each incident of lateness

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Connexions Orientation

• Visit http//cnx.org/content/col10396/latest/
• Corporate Governance Course is composed of
  modules
• Modules are units or sub-units that present skill
  / content materials
• Once inside course, click on start course to
  preview modules in order
• Modules can also be accessed individually from
  within course (click on list in upper left-hand
  corner) or from author index)
• Go to cnx.org
• Click on title-author, etc, author, f, and
  frey to get module index
• Click on module sought by title or identification
  number
• Corporate Governance is a featured course on the
  Connexions home page

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Classroom Guidelines

• 1. Please respect the classroom facilities
• 2. Please do not ask to attend a class you have
  not signed up for.
• 3. Class will start promptly at 800 / 900
• Those late to class should enter unobtrusively
• 4. Make a special effort to treat your classmates
  and professor with respect
• 5. Statement of Values applies in this classroom.
  In all your actions and speech, you should
  strive to uphold the values of
• Justice/fairness, Responsibility, Respect, Trust,
  and Integrity

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