Audience
Business and technical professionals who need to understand their role and responsibility in making sound, ethical decisions.
This workshop can be developed to fit your time constrants.
To organize a customized session:
585-461-3617 (US)
800-650-3269
General Outline for
a Business Ethics
Workshops and Seminars
Values and Ethics in Business and Technology
- be introduced to ethical concepts,
- learn the business case for ethics,
- understand ethics as a well-defined discipline,
- learn techniques for reasoning, and
- understand the role the individual plays in creating an ethically sound organization.
The emphasis placed on each topic will depend on pre-course consultation with the client and specific concerns expressed by course participants at the start of the course. The topics will include
- Basic Ethical Theory
Duty based
Utilitarian - The Role of Good Reasoning
- Good Business Involves Good Ethics
Why ethics impacts business
A Case Study - Corporate Social Responsibility
- Conflict of Interest
This seminar can be customized for specific industries or functional units, for example, the Information Technology, the Technical Communications, or the Engineering sectors.
Instruction and lecture on historical philosphical and ethical concepts (70%), plus individual and group discussion and feedback on industry specific questions, dilemmas, and situations (30%)
Two to Four hours (to fit your schedule.)