International School of Management - ISM

Course Description: This course in Business ethics and social responsibility will examine the practical implications of ethics on business practices and the business cost of ethical failure. Participants will examine several practical approaches to business ethics and how companies are addressing ethical issues. Participants will examine some of the reasons that executives and senior managers are particularly vulnerable to ethical failure, examine several current American and Global ethical crises, and identify a personal code of conduct patterned on Stephen Covey’s Principle-Centered Leadership Model. The focus of the program will be less on theory than on practical application.

Special topics include whistle blowing, racial and sexual discrimination, bribery and corruption, insider trading, the case for and against transparency, racial profiling, sexual harassment, protection of intellectual property and the ethics of trade barriers. We will also look at differences in ethical values as we cross from one culture to another and the implications for business people in this global business environment.