MGT 355 - Ethics in Management

Every person will face a moral or ethical quandary at some juncture in a career. This course will help prepare today’s graduates (future employees and managers) to think in a structured, orderly way about their obligations to their companies and to other people. Ethics experts argue students must develop the skills needed to convincingly present their moral point of view so they may ethically represent their organizations, safeguard their careers, and protect their societies. Students will explore historical and contemporary cases in managerial ethics applying theories of ethical reasoning. Topics will relate to ethical problems in business management, moral analysis and economic outcomes, legal requirements underscoring ethical management, ethical duties of managers and business owners, and practical/legal reasons businesses should be ethical. Students will discuss how to identify unethical conduct and how to appropriately respond to it. The link between ethics and corporate culture will be reinforced.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite Courses: MGT 350.
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.