
Business Ethics
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This course provides an introduction to business ethics. Part philosophy and part business, the course covers a wide array of ethical issues arising in contemporary business life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology. The lessons explore employee issues and responsibilities, leadership and decision making, morality, diversity, discrimination, and ethics in marketing and advertising. Corporate social responsibility is also examined, as are the topics of environmental responsibilities, global ethics, and regulation concerns in an era of increasing globalization.
- Self Paced
- Business
- Content by McGraw Hill
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Relate the market system to the need for ethics in business and distinguish it from the law and concepts of virtue and morality.
- Explore ethics in the context of relativism, psychological egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics.
- Examine the ideas of character ethic, female ethic, human rights, and ethical action.
- Illustrate the factors influencing employee issues including the right to work, employment at will, due process and employee participation, health and safety standards, family responsibilities, the right to privacy, and substance abuse testing.
- Examine the professional ethics and responsiblities of intermediaries, managerial responsibility and loyalty, and employee responsibilities to the community.
- Illustrate how the traits of ethical leaders and the influence of the group affect moral responsibility.
- Compare differentiation and discrimination, and examine issues involving diversity and discrimination including the work environment of women, preferential policies, and diversity policies.
- Relate risk analysis in health and safety, responsibilities of the producer, products liability and accountability, and fair pricing to ethics in marketing.
- Explore the ethical considerations that govern sales, advertising, and product placement in the context of regulation of sales and advertising, and target marketing.
- Analyze international economic integration, labor in the global economy, and the regulation of global economic activities by international institutions.
- Analyze methods of ensuring morality in business including Kohlberg's method of assessing moral decision-making processes and James Weber's modification, ethical corporate structures, and federal sentencing guidelines and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- Analyze the classical model and its limitations, and evaluate modern theories of corporate social responsibility including the moral minimum framework and the stakeholder theory.
- Define environmental pragmatism and relate it to environmental regulation and sustainable economics.
- Relate eastern business philosophies, and Islamic and Jewish traditions to the intricacies of conducting ethical overseas business ventures.
Topic | Topic Title | Subtopics | Objectives |
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1 | Introduction to Business Ethics |
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2 | Leaders and Decisions |
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3 | Theoretical Perspectives 1 |
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4 | Theoretical Perspectives 2 |
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5 | Morality in Business |
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6 | Corporate Social Responsibility |
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7 | Diversity and Discrimination |
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8 | Globalization and Regulation |
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9 | Global Ethics |
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10 | Employee Issues |
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11 | Ethics in Marketing – Product Safety and Pricing |
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12 | Ethics in Marketing – Advertising and Target Marketing |
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13 | Environmental Responsibilities |
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14 | Employee Responsibilities |
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15 | Review Topic |
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There are no prerequisites to take Business Ethics.
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StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
If you have chosen a Partner College to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.
There are a total of 1000 points in the course:
Topic | Assessment | Points Available |
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4 | Graded Exam 1 | 125 |
6 | Graded Exam 2 | 125 |
6 | Midterm Exam | 200 |
10 | Graded Exam 3 | 125 |
14 | Graded Exam 4 | 125 |
15 | Final Exam | 300 |
Total | 1000 |
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This course helped me realize what I knew and didn't know about Business Ethics.
This course helped me realize what I knew and didn't know about Business Ethics.
If possible, take the DSST instead and skip this.
If possible, take the DSST instead and skip this.
The Business Ethics course was pretty straightforward and to the point. It definitely required the textbook and reading on your own. After the first exam or two, you get a good feel for how the questions are being pulled from the text and I believe most peoples grades will slowly increase throughout the course.
Helped me fulfill my ethics requirement. Good course.
The Business Ethics course was pretty straightforward and to the point. It definitely required the textbook and reading on your own. After the first exam or two, you get a good feel for how the questions are being pulled from the text and I believe most peoples grades will slowly increase throughout the course.
Helped me fulfill my ethics requirement. Good course.
This was a fun and straightforward course that taught me a lot about business ethics. Each of the 40 question exams took me about 45 minutes each, including review time for my answers, and the final took me just under an hour (60 questions). The homework assignments and readings were all well geared towards the exams, and (even more importantly) they were actually interesting and taught me something. Great experience all together.
This was a fun and straightforward course that taught me a lot about business ethics. Each of the 40 question exams took me about 45 minutes each, including review time for my answers, and the final took me just under an hour (60 questions). The homework assignments and readings were all well geared towards the exams, and (even more importantly) they were actually interesting and taught me something. Great experience all together.
Exam questions were similar to module questions, which was helpful. However, overall question wording was sometimes difficult. The course is a good overview of business ethics practices.
Exam questions were similar to module questions, which was helpful. However, overall question wording was sometimes difficult. The course is a good overview of business ethics practices.
everything okay
everything okay
This course was a great way to quickly and inexpensively meet my ethics requirement.
This course was a great way to quickly and inexpensively meet my ethics requirement.
Good Course. To pass you have to get the book and know the material in it. Not sufficient to just read the lessons online.