Business Ethics
May 2006

 

Course Outline

 

 

Instructor: Gary H. Jones, Ph.D.

 

Course Resources: 
       a.  Business Ethics
                             by J. W. Weiss

                             (Selected material posted on the course website)
       b.  Selected material available on the Web
                               (Links below; to be further described in class)

 

Objectives of the Course:

• To provide students with an understanding of ethics and how they apply to modern businesses.
• To enable students to validate, or correct, personal ideas about various ethical perspectives.
• To prepare students to play a constructive role in improving the ethical considerations of organizations with which they may become involved.

 

 

Coverage: 

• Introduction to Ethics
• Ethical Reasoning in Business
• Ethical Perspectives / Critiques
• Ethical Tests
• Selected Documents Relating to Human Rights and Ethics
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Specific Corporate Codes of Ethics
• Crisis Management in Business
• Ethics in Advertising
• Ethics and the Environment
• Ethics in International Business

 
 Grading:

 

• Students will be graded on their performance on the midterm exam, the final exam, and their participation in class exercises. Grades will be determined according to percentage levels established by Sadat Academy.
  

 

 

Course Orientation

 

• The schedule of classes for this course will be posted on the web site, at
  http://paws.wcu.edu/gjones/sadat-gj.htm

 

• Copies of the material to be covered in this course will be made available for you.
• Because of the compressed time period over which this course must be delivered, there will be no outside, team projects.
• There will be interactive activities in class and you will be graded on the basis of your participation.
• Listen actively in class and be self-conscious of your own behaviour. To this end, the following course rules will be enforced:

1.  Turn off your mobile phone before coming into class, and put it away until after class.

2.  Anyone who is talking and making it difficult for other students to hear what is being discussed will be, in order:

            - asked to be quiet.

            - moved to another seat

            - sent out of the room

            - expelled from the course

3.  Class attendance is required, and a record of attendance will be taken.

The 25% rule will apply. Anyone absent from class a total of more than 8 hours will not get credit for the course.

4.  You must bring a pen to class. You should also bring a notebook to take notes.

5.  Anyone who attempts to cheat on an exam will automatically receive a grade of zero.  No exceptions.

6. You should not take this course if you are already taking six or more other courses. The need to juggle other classes scheduled at the same time as classes in this course will not excuse your absence from a class in this course.

7.  Make-up classes or tests in other courses may not be used as an excuse for not attending a scheduled class in this course.

 

Please inform any instructor who attempts to schedule a make-up class, or a test, which would conflict with a scheduled class in this course that you will not be available because you must attend the class in this course.

 

If such a conflict is nevertheless created, you must inform me before the day the conflict will occur, so that I can take appropriate action.