Course Description This course analyzes how managers can more effectively deal with issues that arise in society.
Business ethics is the key thread that runs throughout the course.
In particular, there are four main parts to this course. The first part provides the basic principles that are used in the remainder of the course. We will examine the nature of business ethics, develop a framework for moral reasoning, and learn the main moral principles that are commonly used to decide whether some action is ethical or unethical. The second part of the course explores the capitalistic market economic system. We will examine the ideologies of some famous philosophers, including John Locke, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx, and investigate the ethics of the market system.