PHIL 337: Business Ethics (Rev. C2/C3) Report a Broken Link

Philosophy 337: Business Ethics examines a number of issues in business practice such as advertising, hiring and firing, corporate social responsibility, globalization, integrity, and leadership. In it we critically apply ethical theories to these issues in order to address leading questions concerning what constitutes good business practice.

Introduction


Unit 2: Normative Ethical Theories, Part I—Moral Relativism and Divine Command Theory


VIDEO: Ethics Defined: Moral Relativism (2:00 min.)
VIDEO: Divine Command Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #33 (9:01 min.)

Unit 3: Normative Ethical Theories, Part II—Ethical Egoism, Utilitarianism, and Kantian Ethics


VIDEO: Ethical Egoism (5:13 min.)
VIDEO: 2 Act and Rule Utilitarianism (4:31 min.)
VIDEO: Kant Humanity Freedom (8:03 min.)

Unit 4: The Ethics of Advertising and Consumer Desire


VIDEO: 2011 AXE Body Spray Commercial—“Dumpster Diver” (0:47 min.)
VIDEO: 2013 Cadillac XTS TV Spot, ‘Headphones’ Song by Victory (0:31 min.)
VIDEO: Erik Satie—Gymnopédie No. 1 (3:36 min.)
Waide, J. (1987). Chapter 52: The making of self and world in advertising, Journal of Business Ethics, 6(2), 73–79.

Unit 5: The Ethics of Hiring and Firing


VIDEO: American History X Dinner Scene Clip (3:57 min.)
VIDEO: Top 10 Getting Fired Movie Scenes (14:27 min.)

Unit 6: The Ethics of Corporate Responsibility in Society


VIDEO: Social Responsibility Perspectives: The Shareholder and Stakeholder Approach (7:43 min.)         

Unit 7: The Ethics of the Globalization of Business


AUDIO: Krasny, Michael, O’Rourke, Dara, Maitland, Ian, Quan, Katie, & Dudley, Renee. (2013, May 6). Fast fashion, cheap clothes and the Bangladesh disaster. Forum with Michael Krasny. San Francisco: KQED Radio, National Public Radio. (51:57 min.)

Unit 8: Integrity and the Ethics of Leadership


McFall, L. (1987). Integrity. Ethics, 98(1), 5–20.
Bowie, N. (2000). A Kantian theory of leadership. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 21(4), 185–193.