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$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
All courses include:
Free eTextbooks
2 to 3-day turnaround for grading
Multiple chances to improve your grade
On-demand tutoring
Student support 7 days a week
Business Ethics
$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2024
Our Business Ethics online course covers a variety of ethical issues found in contemporary businesses. Learn about theoretical perspectives and concepts, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology.
What You'll Learn
Relate the market system to the need for ethics in business and distinguish it from the law and concepts of virtue and morality.
Explore ethics in the context of relativism, psychological egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics.
Examine the ideas of character ethic, female ethic, human rights, and ethical action.
Illustrate the factors influencing employee issues including the right to work, employment at will, due process and employee participation, health and safety standards, family responsibilities, the right to privacy, and substance abuse testing.
Examine the professional ethics and responsibilities of intermediaries, managerial responsibility and loyalty, and employee responsibilities to the community.
Illustrate how the traits of ethical leaders and the influence of the group affect moral responsibility.
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This course provides an introduction to business ethics. Part philosophy and part business, the course covers a wide array of ethical issues arising in contemporary business life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology. The lessons explore employee issues and responsibilities, leadership and decision making, morality, diversity, discrimination, and ethics in marketing and advertising. Corporate social responsibility is also examined, as are the topics of environmental responsibilities, global ethics, and regulation concerns in an era of increasing globalization.
There are no prerequisites to take Business Ethics.