BUSINESS ETHICS
Course Outline and Topic overview

1. Introduction to the course:

2. Moral Philosophy: The Good life, Virtue, and Good Work

Video: Is Greed Good?
Virtue and business: Slide show from class
Work—a blessing or a curse?
Honesty and Lying: Slide show from class

Fairness and Justice

Slide show on fairness and respect for persons
Slide Show on Fairness and Justice in the Workplace

3. Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Business in Society

Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility

Walmart: Saint or Sinner?
Is Walmart Good for America: Watch the video again, online (re-live the thrills and good times)
Extra: NPR series (2003) on Walmart

4. Employee rights and duties (Internal Issues)

Moral Rights in the Workplace: General Introduction (slideshow)
Employee Responsibilities

5. Ethical Issues with Consumers (External Issues)

Marketing Ethics in General (slideshow)
Product Safety
Pricing.
Consumer responsibilities
Marketing Ethics: Video on Corporate activities
Advertising: Truth in Advertising.
Debate #4: Does Advertising undermine capitalism?
Video: Merchants of Cool
Moral myopia and moral muteness

6. Larger Issues: The Environment and Society, and International Business

Business and the Environment
Diversity
Sexual Harrassment: Sex, Power, and the Workplace (Video).

International Business
Debate #5: Are Sweatshops necessarily evil?