2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

MGT 132 - Ethics in Business


Description: Techniques to analyze and resolve modern business ethics issues: legal issues, corporate social responsibility, worker's rights and responsibilities, technological issues, information and advertising.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Individuals, culture, and society
  2. Ethics, society and business
  3. Ethical frameworks
  4. Ethical decision making
  5. Ethical standards in contemporary business and industry

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain the role of culture in values development. (1)
  2. Describe the dependency, connectivity and relationship among ethics, society and business. (2)
  3. Identify, interpret, evaluate, and synthesize insights from various ethical frameworks in the development of ethical reasoning and decision making. (3, 4)
  4. Apply insights from various ethical frameworks in the analysis and resolution of ethical breaches in contemporary business and industry. (3)
  5. Apply ethical standards to contemporary business and industry. (5)
  6. Evaluate a company's code of ethics in terms of the eight principles in the Global Business Standards Codex. (5)