BMGT 203 Business Ethics

This course will study the status and elements of ethics within the modern business world and environment. The impact of governing bodies, the role of industry-imposed guidelines, the element of corporate social responsibility, and accepted standards of conduct will comprise some of the elements of this course. Students will learn to examine instances of ethical dilemma, select elements that influence ethical considerations, and determine appropriate ethical decision-making processes.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Eligible to enroll in ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Compare and contrast the concepts of law, ethics, and morals.
2. Compare and contrast several ethical theories.
3. Analyze the interrelationships between ethics and other business forces, including applying ethical imagination to view perspectives other than one's own.
4. Outline the features of modern business operations which impact ethics.
5. Analyze, through inquiry and exploration, contemporary organizational and business situations and identify the ethical parameters around their use of information.
6. Select components of an ethical dilemma.
7. Evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of a source while analyzing business cases around ethical dilemmas.
8. Utilize critical thinking skills in understanding, analysis, and application of ethics to a business situation which may be alternative to one’s own core beliefs.
9. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration to find information relative to ethical dilemmas in organizations.

Course Objectives

1. Compare and contrast the concepts of law, ethics, and morals.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments
2. Compare and contrast several ethical theories.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments
3. Analyze the interrelationships between ethics and other business forces, including applying ethical imagination to view perspectives other than one's own.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Ethics Rubric

   Ethics Goals

   • ET3
4. Outline the features of modern business operations which impact ethics.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments
5. Analyze, through inquiry and exploration, contemporary organizational and business situations and identify the ethical parameters around their use of information.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL1
   • IL3

   Ethics Goals

   • ET1
6. Select components of an ethical dilemma.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments
7. Evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of a source while analyzing business cases around ethical dilemmas.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL2
8. Utilize critical thinking skills in understanding, analysis, and application of ethics to a business situation which may be alternative to one’s own core beliefs.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Ethics Rubric

   Ethics Goals

   • ET2
9. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration to find information relative to ethical dilemmas in organizations.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments
   • Final project

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric