This course will focus on applied ethics as an art as the students learn ethical principles as well as encounter moral and ethical problems that arise in a business context. It will be presented as a normative and descriptive discipline that reflects on the different degrees of interaction with non-economic social values.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the link between business ethics and social responsibility.
• Examine the foundations and evolution of business ethics.
• Gain insight into the extent of ethical misconduct in the workplace and the pressures for unethical behavior.
• Understand why business ethics initiatives are needed in both small and large organizations.
• Apply moral philosophies to business ethics.
• Understand social responsibility.
• Determine how leadership, motivation, and power relate to ethical decision making in organizations.
• Understand business ethics in a global economy.
• Explain the relationship between business ethics and organizational performance.