Syllabus
1. Ethics and Business (Ethics, economics, management and law, business ethics and ethical theory)
2. Welfare, Rights and Justice (Utilitarianism, Rights and Justice, The Market System, Cost-benefit analysis)
3. Equality, Liberty and Virtue (Kantian ethics, Rawls’s Egalitarian Theory, Libertarianism, Virtue ethics)
4. Whistle Blowing (Meaning, Justification, developing a whistle-blowing policy)
Mid-term exam
5. Trade Secrets and Conflict of Interest (Trade secret protection, competitor intelligence gathering, conflict of interest)
6. Women and Family Issues (Sexual harassment, comparable worth, family and work)
7. Discrimination and Affirmative Action (Meaning, Arguments against discrimination, avoiding discrimination, affirmative action).
8. Privacy (The meaning and value of privacy, the privacy of employee records, privacy on the internet)
9. Marketing, Advertising and Product Safety (Marketing, advertising, product safety)
10. Occupational Health and Safety (The scope of the problem, the right to know about and refuse hazardous work, the problem of reproductive hazards)
11. Ethics in Finance (Financial services, financial markets, insider trading, hostile takeovers)
12. Ethics and Corporations (Social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate ethics)
13. International Business Ethics (Wages and working conditions, foreign bribery, cultural differences)