COURSE OUTLINE: Business 185
Business Ethics
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
A. Three units, three hours per week
B. No prerequisites or parallel
courses required
C. Catalog Description:
This course is designed to better prepare students to deal with the many moral
dilemmas they will inevitably face in their personal and professional lives.
The focus of the class will be primarily on the application of ethics to
contemporary issues occurring in today's business and industry. Students will
research, discuss, analyze, and reflect on issues such as accountability,
loyalty, confidentiality, honesty, justice, education, discrimination, etc.
II. Text: Managing Business Ethics, Linda Trevino and Katherine Nelson, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, Second Edition
III. Major Topics
A. Managing business ethics
B. Why be ethical?
C. Common ethical problems
D. Deciding what's right
E. Ethical problems of managers
F. Managing for ethical conflict
G. Ethical problems of organizations
H. Ethics as organizational culture
I. Creating an ethical organizational culture
J. Managing for ethical conduct in a global business
environment
K. Advice for executives
IV. Methods of Instruction
A. Lecture
B. Discussion
C. Group Work
V. InstructOR
Warren
Sargent 625-4598 cos@agattack.com
VI. METHODS OF EVALUATION AND GRADING
Points
A.
Class attendance 200
You
will fail the course if you accumulate
90 negative points (earned as follows)
1.
Each excused
absence costs 10 points (only 2 allowed)
2.
Each unexcused
absence costs 30 points
3.
Arriving late or leaving early costs 5 points
4.
You will fail the course if you miss the final
exam
5.
Disruptions
in class may lead to lost attendance
points or
receiving an “F” for the class
B. Class
participation
300
C. Homework
300
1. Each missed assignment costs 20
points
2. Turn in homework at start of
class
D.
Group final exam - comprehensive
200
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1000
E.
Grading
1. 900+ A
2.
800-899 B
3.
700-799 C
4.
600-699 D
5.
599< F
F. Cheating or
plagiarism will be dealt with according to the Student Code of Conduct which
includes consequences ranging from reprimand to expulsion.
VII.
Week of
Chapter(s) Homework due on this date
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8/22 1
8/29 2 Case 2.1 page 43
9/5 3 Conflict of Interest Issue page 76, Customer Confidence Issue page 77
9/12 4 Case 4.1 page 95
9/19 5 Another Short Case page 122, Discussion Questions page 122
9/26 6 Managing a Diverse Workforce page 145
Managing Up and Across page 146
10/3 7 Case 7.1 page 170, Another Short Case for Discussion page 173
10/10 8 Discussion Case page 200
10/17 Manville Corporation Case page 320 group work
10/24 8
10/31 9 VideoTek Case page 235, Denny’s Case page 240
11/7 10 Case 10-1 page 284
11/14 11 Case 11-1 page 311
11/21 Manville Corporation Case page 320 group presentations
11/28 holiday
12/5 Manville Corporation “B” Case Analysis
12/12 Final Five questions from the Manville Corporation “B” Case