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Business and Professional Ethics - PHIL201
The recent global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of ethical governance in the corporate sphere. This unit provides students with an introduction to some of the main ethical issues raised by the activities of businesses and corporations as well as an introduction to some central topics in professional ethics. In the first part of the unit we examine the roles and responsibilities of corporations in relation to individuals and society.
We ask whether corporations have moral responsibilities to stakeholders other than shareholders and examine competing accounts of economic justice related to this question. Other topics in this section include the ethics of discrimination and affirmative action and the issues of justice in health research and conflicts of interest in medicine. The second part of the unit begins with an examination of the responsibilities of business in relation to the environment. Other topics in this section include justice and globalization, the influence of corporations on government, the ethics of advertising, and whistleblowing. This unit is relevant to students in accounting and business as well as those in the humanities and social sciences.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S3 Day - Session 3, December 2015 - February 2016, North Ryde, Day |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Matthew Millar |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp or admission to GDipArts |
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| NCCW(s): | PHI230, PHIL263, PHIL264, PHIL364, PHL264, PHL364 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts |
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