Business Ethics

Business Ethics covers a variety of ethical issues found in contemporary businesses. Learn about theoretical perspectives and concepts, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology.

What you’ll learn

  • Ability to make ethical day-to-day business decisions
  • Understanding of corporate social responsibility
  • How to be a leader adept at decision making
  • Learn ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology
Business Ethics

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

Business Ethics

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

About This Course

|
ACE Approved 2021

The concept of business ethics is a combination of philosophy and business. Our Business Ethics online course covers a variety of ethical issues found in contemporary businesses. Learn about theoretical perspectives and concepts, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology. This course also teaches you about employee issues and responsibilities, leadership and decision making, morality, diversity, discrimination, and ethics in marketing and advertising.

Course Outcomes

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 responsibilities 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.

Read Less

Course Text

Prefer the hard copy? Simply purchase from your favorite textbook reseller; you will still get the eTextbook for free. The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.

Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility

Hartman, Laura P., Joseph R. DesJardins, and Chris MacDonald. Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2024. ISBN: 9781265322724.

lollipops-top-left
lollipops-top-right

Earn College Credit That Will Transfer

Transfer into over 3000+ institutions that accept ACE courses or transfer directly into 150+ partner schools.

view all partners

It was time for my next big thing.

StraighterLine made it very easy and convenient to take all the prerequisites I needed to take to advance my career in Science. I liked how flexible it was. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Things I love about StraighterLine

Time for me

I was able to fit classes into my free time and spend 10 hours a week when I was available.

Variety of courses

I took five courses with StraighterLine and saved thousands of dollars on my degree.

Added To Cart

Your cart includes: