SYLLABUS
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Wayland Baptist University, Fairbanks Campus, School of Business
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Mission Statement: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an
academically challenging, learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment
for professional success and service to God and humankind.
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Course: BUAD 5304 –Business Ethics
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Term: Summer 2014 --May 26, 2014- August 9, 2014
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Instructor: Dr. Karen E. Dempster, Esq., BA, MED, EDS, JD.
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Office Phone and email: 907-456-2365 (H), 907-978-7745 (C); e-mail: dempsterk@wbu.edu
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Office Hours, Building, and Location Eielson AFB, Wed, 1:00-5:30 PM, Sunday, Eielson
AFB, Bldg. 2631. Rm. 316.
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Class Meeting Time and Location: Thursday, 6:00 – 10:00 PM, Doyon Facility, Rm. 302A
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Catalog Description: systematic overview of normative ethics and a comprehensive
discussion of contemporary moral issues including analysis of case studies.
10. Prerequisites: None
11. Required Textbook and Resources:
BOOK
Business &
Professional
Ethics for
Directors, Execs.,
& Accountants
AUTHOR
ED YEAR PUBLISHER
Brooks/Dunn 6th 2012
Cengage
Learning
BOOK
AUTHOR ED YEAR PUBLISHER
Ethics on the Job
Pfeiffer, &
4rd 2014
Forsberg
Cengage
Learning
ISBN#
REVIEW
9780538478380 Spring 14
ISBN#
REVIEW
9781133934875 Spring 14
12. Optional Materials:
13. Course Outcome Competencies:
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Identify the ethical toolbox and list the tools available to employees and employers
in making business and workplace decisions.
Describe historically how ethical tools, or their absence, have been used and abused.
Identify ethical issues and business solutions in developing a practical decision
matrix.
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Bring real world ethics into the classroom.
To apply ethical solutions to assets and personnel in a business setting.
To interact with fellow students and understand different perspectives.
To communicate in writing and orally, clearly and succinctly ethical decisions and
the reasoning to all those who are or maybe impacted by your communication.
Create, prepare, & produce an ethics program with all the components.
14. Attendance Requirements: Be there or be square! Translated, means you need to be
there for the discussions as well as for the instruction. If the mission requires your presence
elsewhere, let me know, ASAP.
15. Disability Statement: “In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
(ADA), it is the policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person
with a disability be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject
to discrimination under any educational program or activity in the university. The
Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the coordinator of students with a disability
and should be contacted concerning accommodation requests at (806) 291- 3765.
Documentation of a disability must accompany any request for accommodations.”
Remember, your instructor is a certified dyslexic and will brook no discrimination with
respect to disability or any other type, kind or sort.
16: Course Requirements and Grading Criteria: Each week, students will present ethical
case from “Ethics on the Job” ,and analyze it for the class using “RESOLVEDD”. The
presentation and class discussion will be a graded. There will be a final powerpoint
presentation to the class on an ethical topic of your choosing (unfortunately there are too
many current breaches of ethics to choose from).
17. Tentative Schedule: (Calendar, Topics, Assignments) TAB, but a chapter a week! You
will read the chapter, then the case studies associated with that chapter. Quizzes, and
discussion, will ensue.
This schedule is subject to CHANGE. Assignments are reviewed each class meeting and any
changes will be noted at that time. Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives
& Accountants (Big Book), Ethics on the Job (Small Book)
Date
Reading
Do/Read____________
5/29/14
Ch 1 Big Book, Ethics Expectations
Ch 1 Small Book,.
Pg. 2-25. Ans Q pg.26: 1,3,4,6,16
Pg. 1-15 Excercises 1-4 pg. 15-16
6/05/14
Ch 2 Big Book Pg. 71-91. Q. #1, 7.
Ch 2 Small Book pg 17-37
6/12/14
Ch 3 Big Book Pg. 129-153
Ch 3 Small Book Pg. 38-50
Assign ‘Case Insights’ (4)
Film: Enron, The Smartest Guys
in the Room.
Case insights assigned (6) pg.154
RESOLVEDD Exlained
6/19/14
Ch 4 BB, Pg. 170-197
Ch 4 SB Pg. 51-67
Pg. 199 case insights assigned 4
6/26/14
Ch 5 BB Pg. 235-273
Ch 5 SB. Pg. 68-77
Pg. 278 (25). Two weeks here
7/03/14
Ch 5 BB, assigned cases
7/10/13
Ch 6 BB Pg. 365-412
Assign Case Insights Pg. 413
7/17/14
Ch 7 BB Pg. 485-523
Assign Cases Pg. 524
7/24/14
Ch 8 BB Pg. 586-606
Ch 6 SB Assign Cases
Assign cases Pg. 608
Pg 79-161
7/31/14
Ch 6 SB, Assign Cases
8/07/14
Students present Power Point Ethical Situation