w5 Ethics learning active 1 and learning active 2

w5 Ethics learning active 1 and learning active 2

Overview:

Week Five focuses on the idea that a business can make an ethical decision and what it takes for them to do so - how ethics works in the organization, how leadership plays into the ethical decision making, and the need for an ethical organizational culture.  Also discussed are several of the unique 21st century issues facing business today.

Theme 1:  Ethical Organizational Decision Making Can Be Encouraged

Ethical behavior is something that people talk about but if an organization and the people in it are not committed to its importance then it will not succeed.  The theme this week focuses on how we can make businesses create an ethical environment.

Read/View:

• Ethical Decision Making – Some Examples
• Compliance as a Subtle Precursor to Ethical Corrosion: A Strength-Based Approach as a Way Forward
• Creating an Ethical Organizational Culture
• Do the right thing six ways create culture ethics in any organization
• Courage
• Role of the Board in Creating an Ethical Culture
• Barriers to Creating an Ethical Corporate Culture
• Why a Transparent Culture is Good for Business

Theme 2: Unique Ethical Organizational Issues

Here are several 21st century ethical issues that feature organizational decisions.

Read/View:

• Genetic Engineering in the Workplace, Read My Genes: Genetic Screening in the Workplace
• Ethics and Genetics: Susceptibility Testing in the Workplace
• Why Privacy Matters
• Big Chocolate Child Labor
• What Will a Future Without Secrets Look Like?
• Apple Failing to Protect Chinese Child Labor
• Marketing Ethics 
• Marketing to Children: Accepting Responsibility
• Ethical Marketing - Explore the Strategy of Ethical Marketing
• Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
• Getting to the Bottom of the Triple Bottom Line
• Ethics and the Triple Bottom Line