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Teaching Business Ethics Seminar
 

 
Agenda
 

DAY 1
7:30 a.m.– 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration/Information
 
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Facilitated discussion
    -   Introductions
    -   Participant learning objectives
     
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Process

Can Ethics be Taught?

  • Objectives in teaching business ethics
  • Can ethics be taught to university-level students?
  • Can ethics be taught by me (seminar participants)? How?

Teaching Business Ethics: Planning the Course

  • What is business ethics?
  • Stand-alone and integrated business ethics courses
    -  Business ethics syllabus (stand-alone course)
    -  Including business ethics in functional area syllabi
  • Group breakouts: Case example
     
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Refreshment Break
 
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Process

Teaching Business Ethics: Teaching Tools

  • Case Teaching methodology
  • Experiential learning and other approaches - Simulation exercise
     
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
 
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Process

Teaching Business Ethics: Teaching Tools (continued)

  • Leading Practices among participants: Group breakouts (Groups share plans with larger group; discussion and critique)
     
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Content

Ethics 101: Discussion of Philosophical Foundations and Case Examples

  • What are the philosophical foundations of business ethics?
  • Teaching caselets
    - (1) Relativism and cross-cultural issues
    - (2) Caselet example
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Refreshment Break 
 
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Content

Stakeholder Analysis

  • Stakeholder Analysis - Ways to use it, methods to deliver it, and pitfalls to avoid
  • Group breakouts: Case example
     
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Day 1 Wrap Up
 
DAY 2
7:30 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
 
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Content

Ethical Decision-Making Process and Frameworks (cont)

  • Application of decision-making processes
  • Discussion of group case development process
8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m. Group Case Development Project
 
9:45 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break  
 
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Case Study Presentations, Critiques, Lessons Learned
 

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Luncheon
 
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Process

Simulation teaching example
 

1:30 p.m.– 2:30 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics: Content

Introducing issues of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Pedagogy for sustainability and ethics
 

2:30 p.m.– 3:15 p.m. Teaching Business Ethics Challenges and Advice

Collective wisdom and lessons
 

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Overall Seminar Wrap Up, takeaways, evaluations, and program conclusion