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Business Ethics
What do you think Justice Ginsburg meant by equal opportunity “in fact, and not simply in form”?
Do you agree with the Supreme Court’s decision?
Describe the issue of workplace sexual harassment.
Analyze the ethical arguments for and against preferential treatment in the workplace.
Explain the ethical basis of equal opportunity and affi rmative action.
Distinguish between equal opportunity, affi rmative action, and preferential treatment.
Explain workplace discrimination.
Describe a range of ethical issues raised by a diverse workforce.
What is the circular fl ow model of economic transactions? Explain how this model differs from the sustainable economics of Herman Daly.
What is the difference between consumer desires and citizen beliefs? How is this distinction relevant to business’s environmental responsibility?
Give examples of at least two market failures and explain how they represent challenges to the free market understanding of business’s environmental responsibilities.
How would you defi ne a sustainable business? What are the three pillars of sustainability?
What responsibilities, if any, do we have to future generations? How might these responsibilities change contemporary business?
What government policies might encourage other businesses to follow Interface’s lead? What government policies hinder such activities?
Should manufacturers be legally liable for “cradle to grave” responsibility for their products? Should manufacturers be responsible for recycling their products after consumers are finished with
Some critics argue that sustainability is popular only because it allows industrialized countries to believe, falsely, that consumer-driven lifestyles can continue indefinitely. In what ways do you
Interface shifted from a product-based to a service-based company. The growing popularity of leasing in the automotive and computer business suggests that paying for services rather than products
Describe the implications of natural capitalism for contemporary business.
Describe the business model of natural capitalism.
Analyze arguments supporting a model for sustainable business.
Provide an analysis of market-based solutions to environmental challenges.
Compare and contrast standard economic models with sustainable economics.
Explain the concepts of sustainable economics and sustainable development.
Describe standard understandings of corporate environmental responsibility.
Explain two ways in which a consumer could be described as vulnerable.What factors might make a person vulnerable in each sense? What are the ethics of marketing to the vulnerable?
To what degree do you think that modern marketing has created a dysfunctional affl uent economy in which irrational and trivial consumer demand has replaced personal and social needs?
Distinguish between autonomous and nonautonomous behavior. Explain the difference between autonomous and nonautonomous desires. Do you have any desires that you would characterize as nonautonomous?
What things does advertising do for consumers? What does advertising do to consumers? In what ways has advertising done anything to you?
Explain how the FDA’s standards of deception and unfairness are related.How might an advertisement be both deceptive and unfair?
Distinguish between ethically acceptable means of infl uencing another and ethically improper means to infl uence another. Apply your answer to the case of pharmaceutical ads.
Distinguish between manipulation, deception, and a lie. Does the ethical wrong with these practices depend most directly on the consequences or on the intent?
Is there anything ethically wrong with marketing credit cards to college students?
Do you think that college students are more, or less, informed than the average consumer? More or less vulnerable to aggressive marketing techniques?
How many can explain what would happen if they are late with a payment?Does anyone know the length of time between the day you receive your credit card bill and the payment due date?
How many people know the interest rate on their card? How many know the credit limit? Can anyone explain the condition under which the credit card company can change the interest rate?
How many people pay off their bill each month?
How did you come to posses these credit cards? Did you initiate the application, or were you solicited for it? How difficult was it to qualify for credit?
How many people in your class have credit cards? How many different cards, on average, does each person possess?
Analyze the ethics of marketing to vulnerable people and populations.
Explain the ethics of target marketing.
Analyze the arguments concerning marketing that violates consumer autonomy.
Explain the regulatory standards governing advertising.
Analyze the ethics of manipulation and deception in marketing and sales;
Explain three ways in which the lowest price might not be the ethically best price.
Evaluate three different ethical arguments used to justify the policy of strict product liability.
To what extent should manufacturers be held liable for harms caused by their products?
Explain the concept of negligence and offer an ethical defense of the claim that drug manufacturers should be held liable for negligent testing or production of their products.
Explain why caveat emptor would be the ethically preferred product safety approach of the free market economic theory.
Describe several ways in which consumers are less than free in making choices about which products to purchase.
Explain three general ethical concerns that should be raised in marketing ethics.
Should manufacturers have a responsibility to take back their products after their useful consumer life? How might life cycle responsibility change the way products are designed, manufactured, and
What responsibility do manufacturers have in the design and use of harmful products?
What public policy approach would be most reasonable to protect consumers from harmful products? How might market and economic forces play a role in protecting consumers?
What responsibility should the manufacturer of toxic chemicals have for harmful effects that they have years after their initial manufacture and sale? Should manufacturers have foreseen such harms,
Explain the ethical issues involved in product pricing.
Provide an ethical analysis of strict products liability.
Explain the ethical issues surrounding the concept of negligence.
Explain the ethical dimensions of products liability law ranging from caveat emptor to strict products liability.
Apply an ethical framework for evaluating marketing ethics.
Understand a range of ethical issues that arise in marketing.
Explain at least two ethical objections to insider trading. What, exactly, was wrong (if anything) with insiders selling Enron’s stock throughout 2001?
What conditions does DeGeorge suggest are necessary to make whistleblowing ethically permissible? When is it ethically required?
In what way is business like poker? In what ways is it different?
Defi ne trust and loyalty. Do all employees have a responsibility to be trustworthy?To be loyal? Why does Duska believe that loyalty is inappropriate in the workplace?
What is a confl ict of interest and when and under what conditions are they unethical? Do the dual roles of auditor and consultant, as played by Arthur Andersen and other major accounting fi rms,
How might the narrow view of employee responsibilities be defended ethically? What are its shortcomings?
How is the relationship between a person and her real estate agent or lawyer similar to the relationship between an employer and employee? How are they different?
Explain how responsibilities can depend upon the relationships one has with other people.
What laws or policies would you recommend to reform lending practices in high-risk credit markets?
What laws or policies would you recommend to prevent future Enrons?
Who, if anyone, was harmed by Andrew Fastow’s dual roles as Enron’s CFO and as managing partner of Enron’s SPEs?
Who was harmed by misvaluing of subprime mortgages? Who was benefited?
Who was harmed by the insider trading of Enron executives? What harm, if any, was done to employees who were prevented from selling Enron stock in their 401(k) accounts?
What were the responsibilities of the accountants at Arthur Andersen? To whom did they owe these responsibilities?
Analyze the ethical responsibilities concerning whistle-blowing and insider trading.
Analyze responsibilities for honesty in business.
Analyze the responsibilities of trust and loyalty in the workplace.
Explain and examine the concept of confl icts of interest.
Explain managerial responsibilities.
Understand the role of business professionals as gatekeepers.
Explain the agency view of employee responsibilities.
Explain the nature and range of employee responsibilities.
Explain how the nature of the employer–employee relationship helps to determine the extent of privacy in the workplace.
Explain how individual bargaining between employer and employee would be the preferred method of the economic model of corporate social responsibility for establishing a healthy and safe workplace.
Explain what you take to be the strongest argument in defense of an employee’s right to participate in managerial decision making. Explain what you take to be the strongest argument against such a
Explain and evaluate four major counterarguments to due process rights in the workplace.
What is the defi nition of due process? How does this relate to the concept of just cause?
What is the legal doctrine of employment at will? Explain three different legislative or judicial limitations on this doctrine. Do you think any are unreasonable?
Explain three different meanings of a right to work. Which, if any, do you think should be among the moral rights of employees?
Explain the difference between an employee’s legal rights and moral rights.
If you were responsible for hiring employees, would you look to a Web site such as Facebook to gather information about them?
Do you disagree with any of the actions of the employers in these cases?Why or why not?
In both the Swann and Leone cases the employers did not give the employee an option to explain or appeal their decisions. Should they have?
Both Swann and Leone were fired for what they posted to Facebook.Should they have been surprised that their employers might read their postings? It is unknown if Colvin knew about or consented to
In the Quon v. Ontario case, the police officers filed a lawsuit even though they were not fired for the information that the police chief learned about their text messages. How, if at all, is
Analyze arguments supporting an employee right to participation.
Distinguish due process from the legal doctrine of employment at will.
Analyze arguments supporting an employee right to due process, participation, health and safety, and privacy.
Explain and examine various meanings of a right to work.
Distinguish moral rights from legal and contractual rights.
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