In a complex, multicultural business environment, it is important that business professionals adhere to ethical standards throughout their daily activities. The goal of this course is to introduce you to concepts and guidelines for ethical courses of actions in business. In order to assess your understanding of the material and your ability to apply the required concepts, you will be asked to take on the role of the ethics director for the company in the scenario. You will be asked to design an ethics curriculum for new employees to address the rights and responsibilities of employees and the ethical relationship between employer and employee. You will also be tasked with developing an ethical dilemma for analysis, offering ethical decisions for evaluation, and examining the role of personal values and goals in the workplace.

SCENARIO

You are the ethics officer of a marketing firm. The company prides itself on only engaging in ethical business practices. In order to ensure that all of its employees understand corporate ethical policy, new employees must attend an ethics training as part of the onboarding process. Additionally, every employee must attend an annual ethics training. These ethical training programs are developed by the marketing firm$$s ethics officer $($you$),$ the marketing firm$$s human resources $($HR$)$ director, and an outside consulting firm.

In a joint development session, the team works through the training development materials that will be presented at this year$$s two$-$day ethics training session. This year, the focus is on two primary topics: employees$$ rights and responsibilities in the workplace and employer$$s ethical responsibilities toward employees. In addition, hypothetical ethical scenarios are developed to evaluate the employees$$ understanding of company ethical standards, general ethical decision$-$making, and desired courses of action.