Business Ethics FILO 3178 Dr William Frey ADEM

Business Ethics FILO 3178 Dr. William Frey ADEM 130 X 5310

On a three by five note card… l l l l 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 sociohumanistic 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”

Course Description l Study of the aspects of business ethics including ethical leadership, ethical decision-making, social responsibility, and corporate governance. l 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 l Professional Responsibility, Social and Global Impacts, Major Design Experience with ethics integration

Content Objectives l Ethical and Social Leadership ¡ l Decision–Making ¡ ¡ l 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 ¡ l Practice leadership skills as exhibited by business and professional exemplars 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

Skill Objectives l Intelligibility ¡ ¡ ¡ l Integrating Ethical Concerns ¡ ¡ ¡ l 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 ¡ l 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 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.

What you are going to do l Individual l Group ¡ ¡ Participate in discussion and other class activities ¡ Take a midterm exam (September 21, 2007) l ¡ Class Time and Location Participate fully in group activities ¡ Take a Final Exam ¡ Turn in informal class writes ¡ Take quizzes (if necessary) Carry out case and module group activities Prepare summaries of ethics bowl cases l ¡ Prepare solution evaluation matrices and debrief to class Incident at Morales, Toysmart, Biomatrix, and Hughes Ethics of Team Work Module l l 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

How you will be graded l 200 Points: Midterm Exam l 200 Points: In-Depth Case Analysis ¡ ¡ l 100 Points: Ethics of Team Work Module ¡ l Summaries of Ethics Bowl cases In-Depth analysis of one case with Software Development Cycle procedure 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

Connexions Orientation l Visit: http: //cnx. org/content/col 10396/latest/ l Corporate Governance Course is composed of modules ¡ Modules are units or sub-units that present skill / content materials l Once inside course, click on “start course” to preview modules in order l Modules can also be accessed individually from within course (click on list in upper left-hand corner) or from author index) ¡ ¡ ¡ l 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

Classroom Guidelines l 1. Please respect the classroom facilities l 2. Please do not ask to attend a class you have not signed up for. l 3. Class will start promptly at 8: 00 / 9: 00 ¡ Those late to class should enter unobtrusively l 4. Make a special effort to treat your classmates and professor with respect l 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