91-828 Ethical Issues in Management
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Ethical Issues in Management is a course designed to survey various controversial problems dilemmas and quandaries encountered by private public or nonprofit managers in the contemporary organization. The course will be divided into two interrelated sections. First issues dealing with managerial mischief will be examined. Topics considered in this area include the causes of illegal unethical or questionable managerial conduct controls available to minimize corrupt behavior in organizations the efficacy of codes of conduct organizational values and unethical conduct conflicts of interest and other questionable managerial practices. The second part of the course will examine the many moral mazes in management. Topics here addressed include managing AIDS in the workplace whistleblowing sexual harassment employee rights employee screening tests inside information confidentiality in the workplace managing problem employees workplace privacy employment and postemployment restrictions and the use and abuse of managerial deception. The course will rely heavily upon the case analysis method group discussion and video presentations. There is only one project for the course. This project will form the basis of the students grade in the course. The project will be discussed in detail at the first class session. a hrefhttpwww.heinz.cmu.eduacademicresourcescourseresultscoursedetailsindex.aspxcid208...Read Morea
Prerequisites: none listed
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