...------------------------------------------------- Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know You Are Right. Mary C. Gentile. Yale University Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-300-16118-2 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- MBA Oath: Setting A Higher Standard For Business Leaders. Max Anderson and Peter Escher. The Penquin Group. 2010 ISBN 978-1-59184-335-1 Course Overview: This course will be managed more like a workshop or seminar in that the materials covered will be done in a discussion and debate format and not a lecture format. The major objective for this structure is to recognize that most often there is no "correct" or "singular" way to deal with ethical problems we can expect to encounter. The seminar structure fosters shared alternative opinions and differential thinking as to how each of us might approach any particular ethical problem can be fully explored and experienced by every member of the class. This does however, put a major responsibility on the part of the student to come to each class prepared and final grading will strongly reflect that commitment. This course utilizes classical schools of ethical thought and practices to guide business leaders as they confront a wide variety of ethical and social responsibility issues. The incorporation of internet-based real-world ethical case studies with competing values will challenge students working in teams on some cases and...
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...Indentifying Your Values – and Voicing Them II. People Issues A. Discrimination B. Harassment, Sexual and Otherwise III. Conflicts of Interest A. What Is It? B. How Can We Think About This Issue? C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem? D. Costs IV. Customer Confidence Issues A. What Is It? B. How Can We Think About This Issue? C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem? D. Costs V. Use of Corporate Resources A. What Is It? B. How Can We Think About This Issue? C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem? D. Costs VI. When All Else Fails: Blowing the Whistle A. When to Blow the Whistle B. How to Blow the Whistle VII. Conclusion VIII. Discussion Questions IX. Short Cases Teaching Notes - Discussion Questions 1. What do you value? Can you make a list of the three or four values you would stand up for? How will you explain to others what your values are and why? This is the perfect place to begin linking the values exercises you (hopefully) did with your students in Chapter 2, with why it is important to identify their values. It is difficult, if not impossible, to voice values, if you have no idea what your values are! Go to the “Giving Voice to Values” website: (http://www3.babson.edu/babson2ndgen/GVV/default.cfm. There are many exercises available there, which can help you teach the importance of identifying values and then provide tools...
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