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BUSINESS ETHICS

Instructor: Dr. Michael Payne

479 HUM, x-92840

E-Mail: michael.payne@notes.udayton.edu

Office hours: 5:30-6 P.M. T-TH


Textbook: Ethical Issues in Business, 7th. ed., Donaldson & Werhane

Course Description

This course provides a basic introduction to ethical issues in the business world, which includes the developing global, international business world. It must be emphasized that because the business world is now so large and still developing, the course provides no more than an introduction to the enormously complex ethical issues in the business world today. It is the general goal of the course to both explain and critically examine these ethical issues. You will be expected to think for yourself.

The course is divided into five general, but overlapping, sections:

1. General Issues in Ethics.

2. Property, Profit, and Justice.

3. Corporations, Persons, and Morality.

4. International Business.

5. Contemporary Business Issues.


Requirements

There will be three tests, each worth 30%, and class participation will be worth 10%.

Attendance will be recorded and could affect your grade. Freshmen cannot miss more than 2 classes.

Plagiarism will result in a "0" on a test. There will be no make-up tests, nor extra credit.

Assignments



Intro (1)

Gentile (364)

Schwartz (370)

McIntosh (381)

Oil Rig (192)

Rawls (193)

Nozick (203)

Walzer (210)

Plasma (140)

Dorrence (142)

Locke (150)

Smith (155)

Marx (159)

Carnegie (164)

 

TEST #1 7/21/04

Fuller (20)

Friedman (33)

Goodpaster (49)

Bowie (61)

Solomon (71)

Werhane (83)

Kelly (98)

Carr (106)

Gillespie (112)

Brenkert (118)

Merck (238)

Sen (244)

Frank (252)

McCoy (262)

 

TEST #2 7/15/04

Run (269)

Vandivier (323)

Radin (343)

Safety (396)

Grace (399)

Rachels (410)

Donaldson (419)

Human Rights (424)

Tip (429)

Levi's (432)

DeGeorge (458)

Fingerhut (486)

Kate (500)

Shell (522)

Sears (565)

TEST #3 7/29/04

END. Revised 25 March 2004

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