2019-2020 Academic Catalog

Apr 25, 2024

2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MGMT 262 - Business Ethics and Law

The course is designed to enable students to gain an understanding of how Business, Law, Ethics and the personal values exhibited by each and every one of us assists in our daily decision making.

To understand Legal Frameworks and Ethical Decision-Making Models relative to business in such a short period of time, it will be necessary for you to meet the requirements of the readings, participate actively in and, as a team, lead class discussions and conduct a team project.

This is a foundation course, providing visibility to what the worlds of management and society will expect of you. We will study, understand and discuss statutory as well as case law related to the following contemporary topics:

• Whistleblowing: Conflict of Loyalties
• Privacy and Technology
• Valuing and Managing Diversity
• Workers’ Rights as Human Rights: Health and Safety in the Global Workplace
• Environmental Law and Justice: Responsibility, Resilience and Survival
• Marketing and Technology: Choice and Manipulation
• Allocating Risk and Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace Products Liability
• Ownership, Creativity and Innovation: Intellectual Property
• Falun Gong - a Chinese Ethical and Societal Movement

This class fulfills the Values Perspective.

Prerequisites: Juniors/seniors only.

Course Designation/Attribute: VP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually