ETHICS

Explore utilitarianism as a universal, rational, consequence-based theory of the greatest good, its modifications by Mill, the harm principle, and its application to contemporary business decisions.

Explore ontology ethics and the categorical imperative, distinguishing it from utilitarianism while applying a model of conscious business ethics to act with goodwill and treat others as ends.

Explore the theory of justice as fairness, including the original position, veil of ignorance, and unanimity, and compare it with utilitarianism. Apply fairness to redistribution in business.

Adopt a stakeholder orientation by identifying key internal and external stakeholder relationships. Recognize that welfare drives ethical decisions beyond law, exemplified by corporate social responsibility and a Samsung recall.

Explore how stakeholder claims vary in importance and categorize stakeholders into enabling, normative, functional, and despues groups, while comparing descriptive, instrumental, and normative approaches to ethics.

Explore how to identify factors affecting stakeholder prioritization, apply a power and interest matrix to rank stakeholders, and examine CSR and the triple bottom line as corporate responsibility.

Explore how society, the environment, and government shape business ethics through corporate law, limited liability, and the corporate social responsibility debate, examining shareholder primacy, sustainability, and stakeholder responsibilities.

Explore how sustainability links business, environment, and society through jurisprudence and Earth jurisprudence, examining corporate personhood, environmental justice, and ISO 14000 standards to regulate pollution and promote clean energy.

Explore how government and private sector partnerships balance three public health issues, environmental sustainability, and industry regulation, from revolving door concerns to constitutional arguments for and against regulation.

Employers owe employees a safe, respectful workplace by upholding OSHA, protecting privacy, and ensuring fair wages and EEOC protections against harassment, while ethical leadership and transparency guide change.

Investigate the ethics of compensation, including the gender pay gap, minimum and real wages, and equal pay for equal work, and examine unions and collective bargaining.

Balance productivity and privacy by examining electronic monitoring, policy development, and consent under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Learn about device monitoring, drug testing, and the ethical implications for workplaces.

Explore the employee's loyalty to the company, brand, and customers. Explain confidentiality, trade secrets, customer data, non-disclosure and non-compete protections, plus whistleblowing for safeguarding intellectual property.

Explore how ethical leadership recognizes and respects the rights of all by addressing diversity and inclusion, accommodating different abilities, sexual identification and orientation, income inequalities, and animal rights.

Examine income inequality’s effects on the middle class and ethical pay practices. Assess animal rights within agribusiness ethics, including testing regulation and alternatives.