TROY UNIVERSITY
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
EMBA 6674
Ethics in Business
Prerequisites
EMBA 5501.
Description
The course examines ethical problems and issues faced by managers in the American business and industry with attention to analyzing issues and developing recommended approaches to increase long-term organizational effectiveness.
Objectives
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
1.
Define the role of business in American society.
2.
Define the duties of care and fair dealing, and apply them critically to contemporary issues such as employment relations, global business, advertising, and environmental protection.
3.
Describe concepts of ethical critical thinking, and apply contrasting approaches of ethical reasoning to business issues.
4.
Analyze and apply ethical principles to decisions in business and industry.
5.
Describe issues and perspectives on employee rights to privacy.
6.
Compare and contrast theories and applications of ethics.
7.
Discuss strategies for promoting ethics in the workplace, including minimizing the propensity for ethical dilemmas to emerge due to structural and information flow anomalies.
8.
Apply ethics strategies to business objectives in an apt scenario.
Purpose
To introduce and illuminate the range of ethical issues confronting business managers in today’s society, and to help clarify how managers can frame the issues. Emphasis is placed on rationally approaching complex policy decisions when moral common sense is insufficient to arrive at a better policy decision affecting employees, customers, and society in general. EMBA core requirement.
Master Syllabi are developed by the senior faculty in each business discipline. This Master Syllabus must be used as the basis for developing the instructor syllabus for this course, which must also comply with the content specifications outlined in the Troy University Faculty Handbook .
The objectives included on this Master Syllabus must be included among the objectives on the instructor’s syllabus, which may expand upon the same as the instructor sees fit. The statement of purpose seeks to position the course properly within the curriculum and should be consulted by faculty as a source of advisement guidance. Specific choice of text and other details are further subject to Program Coordinator guidance.
1 August 2005

Master Syllabus: EMBA 6674
Approved Texts
Boatright, J. R. ( 2003 or current ). Ethics and the conduct of business (4th ed.). Boston, MA:
Prentice Hall.
Velásquez, M. G. ( 2006 or current ). Business ethics: A teaching and learning classroom edition:
Concepts and cases (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.
[Online version available as SafariX
WebBook.]
Weiss, J. W. ( 2006 or current ). Business ethics: A stakeholder and issues management approach
(4th ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson/South-Western.
Supplements
Andrews, K. R. ( 1989 ). Ethics in practice: Managing the moral corporation . Cambridge, MA:
Harvard Business School.
Badaracco, J. L. (Ed.). ( 2003 ). Harvard Business Review on corporate ethics . Cambridge, MA:
Harvard Business School.
Berumen, M. E., ( 2003 ). Do no evil: Ethics with applications to economic theory and business .
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
Richardson, J. E. ( 2005 or current ). Annual editions: Business ethics 05/06 (17th ed.). Boston,
MA: McGraw-Hill.
Sowell, T. ( 2003 ). Applied economics: Thinking beyond stage one . New York, NY: Basic Books.
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Troy State University Faculty Handbook (2001): Section 3.8.2.8 [extract]—22 essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space): a. Course title b. Course number c. Term d. Instructor e. Prerequisites f. Office hours g. Class days, times h. Classroom location i. Office location j. Office telephone k. Course description, objectives l. Text(s) m. Other materials n. Grading methods, criterion weights, make-up policy, mid-term grade reports o. Procedure, course requirements p. General supports
(computer works, writing center) q. Daily assignments, holidays, add/drop
& open dates, dead day, final exam r. Additional services
(Americans with
Disabilities Act, other statements) s. Absence policy t. Incomplete-work policy u. Cheating policy v. Specialization requirements
(certification, licensure, teacher competencies)