Managerial Business Ethics

Overview/Description
 Managers perform a delicate ethical balancing act every day. They must meet their obligations to their employer, comply with laws and regulations, address the needs of subordinates, and obey their own consciences. In this course, managers with decision-making responsibility will explore ethical issues and will acquire specific skills for creating and maintaining an ethical work environment.

Target Audience
 All managers who face ethical decision-making responsibility

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Creating an Ethical Environment

  • identify benefits of establishing an ethical environment in the workplace.
  • match characteristics of ethical managers with examples.
  • match strategies for communicating about an organization's ethical standards with corresponding examples.
  • apply strategies for communicating ethical standards in a given scenario.
  • match methods for establishing feedback regarding ethical issues in an organization with examples.
  • apply methods for establishing feedback regarding ethical issues in a given scenario.

    • Maintaining an Ethical Environment

  • identify benefits of maintaining an ethical environment in the workplace.
  • sequence examples of the steps for intervening in an employee's unethical behavior.
  • apply steps to intervene in an employee's unethical behavior in a given scenario.
  • match the steps for resolving an ethical conflict with examples of those steps.
  • apply steps for resolving ethical conflicts in a given scenario.

    • Course Number: PD0172