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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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PHI 232 - Business Ethics
Description: Investigation of ethical problems and solutions in contemporary business practice. Covers ethical theories and how to correctly use ethical decision-making frameworks to resolve issues dealing with personal, social, environmental, and corporate responsibility. Topics include personal morality in profit-oriented enterprises; codes of ethics; obligations to employees and other stakeholders; truth in advertising; whistleblowing and company loyalty; self and government regulation; the logic and future of capitalism; the changing responsibilities of the manager; and the need for awareness of social justice in management and business activities.
Prerequisites: Reading Proficiency.
General Education Competency: Critical Thinking
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Meaningful work and creation of value
- Democratic and economic traditions
- Rights and social responsibilities of business
- Constituencies of ethical business
- Frameworks for making ethical decisions
- Environmental responsibility and sustainability
- Marketing: product, target, and image
- Financial representation
- Hiring policies and compensation standards
- Conditions of employment and codes of ethics
- Religion in the workplace
- The relation between ethics and law
- Intellectual property, technology transfer, and porous borders
- Managerial leadership and corporate culture
- Ethical leadership and leadership in ethics
- Nationality and cosmopolitanism
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify contemporary models for ethical problem-solving. (2-6)
- Apply philosophical methodology to business ethics issues. (1-16)
- Apply analytic techniques to better understand arguments and their structure. (5)
- Analyze philosophical and ethical arguments to make informed ethical decisions as they relate to business. (5)
- Synthesize argumentation and writing techniques to develop stronger reasoning and communication skills in business contexts. (1,2,5)
- Evaluate own reasoning and beliefs to develop clearer arguments on business issues. (1-16)
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