Course: BUSI 4301 - 80037 Bus Ethics & Corp Social
Institution: Texas A&M University - Central Texas
Faculty: Dr. Leyla Orudzheva

Course Description

Examine contemporary organizational ethical issues and challenges. Analyze stakeholder management and sustainability, with emphasis on the manager's corporate social responsibilities to a wide variety of stakeholders. Study ethical dilemmas, decision-making frameworks and approaches to corporate social responsibility. Service Learning may be a required component. Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3301 and either MGMT 3350 or MGMT 3301.

Course Student Learning Outcomes

• Explain the importance of ethical behavior in today’s business world. Type something
• Explain how business ethics relates to larger moral and philosophical frameworks.
• Identify ethical dilemmas that occur in the workplace.
• Evaluate an ethical situation by applying the steps of ethical decision making.
• Evaluate the concept of corporate social responsibility.
• Identify the moral obligations of businesses to the environment.
• Formulate an argument that supports a particular stance over real-world business activities with regards to ethical issues and social responsibility.
• Engage in and reflect upon (at least) two service learning (SL) projects in the student’s local community:

Assessment

• SL Outcome 1. Analysis of knowledge: Students will connect and extend knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one's own academic study/field/discipline to civic engagement and to one's own participation in civic life, politics, and government.
• SL Outcome 2. Diversity of communities and cultures: Students will reflect on how their own attitudes and beliefs are different from those of other cultures and communities. Students will evaluate what can be learned from diversity of communities and cultures.
• SL Outcome 3. Civic action and reflection: Students will demonstrate independent experience and show initiative in a context of complex or multiple civic engagement activities, accompanied by reflective insights or analysis about the aims and accomplishments of one’s actions.
• SL Outcome 4. Civic contexts/structures: Students will demonstrate ability and commitment to collaboratively work across and within community contexts and structures to achieve a civic aim.

Course Objectives or Goals

The overall objective of this course is for each student to develop a critical thinking perspective to approach various ethical concerns encountered by organizational members within the contemporary business world. This course is required for COBA/BBA majors. This course would be a good elective for ANY student having achieved senior level status wanting a better understanding of the manager’s social and environmental responsibilities to key stakeholder groups.