Admi 4016 syllabus fall 2015
Environment of organization syllabus, spring 2016
Syllabi for admi 3009: introduction to business, management, and ethics
First class: student survey
Directions:
On a sheet of paper answer the following questions. You may write in English or Spanish.
- Your name
- Your area of academic concentration or major
- Reason for taking this course (besides that it may be required for your area)
- Have you studied (business) ethics at this university or another university as (a) a freestanding course, (b) an out-of-curriculum activity (student association), (c) a module, unit or activity integrated into some other course
- How would you define business ethics?
- What do you expect to learn in this course?
- How, at this point, would you rate your communication skills? Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced?
- How would you rate your abilities in English regarding speaking, understanding, and writing? Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced?
- Describe what has been your worst experience working in a group or team. Why was it bad, difficult, or unsatisfying?
- What is the best educational experience you have had in the past, i.e., the one from which you have learned the most or learned something that matters greatly to you?
Table outlining cases and associated concepts
Adem statement of values
Presentation on values and contracts
These tables provide summaries of basic moral concepts and intermediate moral concepts. These summaries need to be completed by seeing the concept in a specific case. Basic moral concepts include right, duty, virtue, good, and responsibility. These cut across different practical disciplines in which ethics enters such as business, engineering, and computing. Intermediate moral concepts are specific to a given practical discipline. In the Environment of the Organization, you will study privacy, intellectual property, free speech, responsibility, safety, corporate social responsibility, and responsible dissent. Privacy will be introduced in Toysmart but continue on through Biomatrix, Therac, Hughes, and Drummond. Free Speech will be explored in terms of transferring information in Toysmart, defamation in Biomatrix, informed consent in Therac, and responsible dissent in Hughes. These tables provide summaries to get you started on the concepts but a full understanding requires you see them in the context of a specific case.
Basic moral concepts for business
Rubrics used in connexions modules published by author
Ethical theory rubric
This first rubric assesses essays that seek to integrate ethical theory into problem solving. It looks at a rights based approach consistent with deontology, a consequentialist approach consistent with utilitarianism, and virtue ethics. The overall context is a question presenting a decision scenario followed by possible solutions. The point of the essay is to evaluate a solution in terms of a given ethical theory.
