MGT 501

Business Ethics

Name: Business Ethics

Course Number: MGT 501

Credit(s): 3

Course Description

MGT 501 Business Ethics explores various ethical dilemmas in business globally and the foundations for decisions to resolve these ethical issues. As a post-graduate course, MGT 501 adopts a critical perspective that questions how businesses behave amidst rapidly evolving economic times. Students learn the critical perspectives about the moral acceptability of a whole range of business practices that have contributed to or are associated with large-scale dilemmas such as financial crises and the behavior of actors during such events.

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate proficiency in ethical reasoning and ethical theory.
Critically analyze ethics as a social critique in studying morality in business.
Understand the ethical management of ethics to foster ethical behavior in firms.
Critically evaluate the consequences of unethical and ethical business decisions.