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JA
Business Ethics
Through
hands-on classroom activities, JA Business
Ethics fosters students’ ethical decision-making
as they prepare to enter the workforce and take
part in the global marketplace. Students will
recognize and analyze theory, terminology, and
concepts; apply skills; and evaluate ethical
decision-making. Seven required, five supplemental,
volunteer-led sessions.
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KEY
LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
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One: Ethos Island
Students
participate in a simulation that introduces
them to the topic of ethics. They examine
the rationale for ethical standards in an
interdependent group.
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- Define
ethics and interdependence.
- Express
the rationale of the importance of ethical
behavior in an interdependent group—personal
interest verses society’s best interest.
- Recognize
how ethics are different from rules.
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Two: Values, Goals, and Choices
Students
analyze personal ethical beliefs and examine
their own values and goals. Students begin
to make plans for achieving one-, five-,
and ten-year goals.
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- Evaluate
personal values in ethical dilemmas.
- Articulate
and identify the steps necessary to maintain
and accomplish personal values and goals.
- Recognize
the importance of identifying and understanding
personal values as a means of avoiding
unethical choices.
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Three: How to Decide?
Students
are introduced to four major ethical theories
and apply them to scenarios while analyzing
their own ethical philosophy.
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- Recognize
their assumptions and beliefs about ethics
and how their views align with the major
theories of ethics.
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Four: Ethical Decision-Making
Students
explore an ethical decision-making model
and evaluate their personal decision-making
processes.
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- Apply
an ethical decision-making process to
workplace dilemmas.
- Evaluate
possible changes to their own decision-making
processes.
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Five: Organizational Ethics
Students
explore professional duties and ethical
conflicts within various departments in
a business. Working in groups, they apply
their knowledge to a real-life situation.
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- Express
ethical conflicts as situations vary by
job and department in a business.
- Apply
to the scenarios information about each
department’s potential ethical challenges.
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Six: Social Responsibility
Working
in groups, students explore two prevalent,
but conflicting, theories of social responsibility
in business ethics and compare their personal
beliefs and behaviors with both theories.
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- Recognize
and apply the two prevalent theories of
social responsibility in business ethics.
- Evaluate
personal values related to the theories
of social responsibility in business ethics.
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Seven: Multinational Issues
Through
a role-playing activity, students explore
several complex ethical issues found in
global business. This culminating session
incorporates the overall program concepts.
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- Recognize
the connections between interdependence,
social responsibility choices, and ethical
decision-making through exploring global
issues.
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Supplemental
Session A: Ethos Island Code of Ethics
Students learn the importance of a code
of ethics and practice writing one for their
Ethos Island society.
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- Articulate
the benefits or advantages of having a
code of ethics.
- Develop
a code of ethics for a simulated society.
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Supplemental
Session B: Heroes, Role Models, and Mentors
Students examine the importance of obtaining
external assistance when making ethical
decisions. They explore the characteristics
of heroes, role models, and mentors and
the importance of having them in their lives.
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- Express
the importance of positive, external assistance
during the ethical decisions-making process.
- Recognize
characteristics and sources of heroes,
role models, and mentors.
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Supplemental
Session C: Bad Choices from Bad Logic—Fallacies
Students are introduced to 10 common fallacies
so they can act on what they know is ethical.
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- Recognize
common fallacies of logic in persuasive
arguments.
- Act
on what they know to be the ethical choice.
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Supplementary
Session D: Organizational Ethics—Marketing
vs. Propaganda
Students learn about organizational ethics
by examining the duties responsibilities,
and unique ethical challenges faced by a
marketing department. They compare ethical
decision-making using a code of ethics with
unethical marketing using propaganda.
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- Express
the importance of a code of ethics.
- Analyze
a department in a business to consider
how it balances potential ethical conflicts
with the duties of that department.
- Compare
the ethical guidelines of the marketing
field with common propaganda techniques.
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Supplemental
Session E: Employee Ethics
Students explore practical ethical guidelines
they may encounter in the world of work.
Working in groups, they create public service
announcements.
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- Express
the need to recognize and avoid ethical
pitfalls in a new work environment.
- Understand
practical guidelines they may encounter
in the world of work.
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CONCEPTS
Beliefs, Code of Ethics, Employee ethics, Ethical decision-making,
Ethical dilemmas, Ethics rationale, Ethics vs. rules,
Fallacies, Gatekeeper, Goal assistants, Goal obstructions,
Hero, mentor, and role model, Interdependence, Marketing,
Multinational corporation, Organizational ethics, Personal
ethics, Profit, Propaganda, Social responsibility theories,
Stakeholders, Stockholders, Values. |
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SKILLS
Analyzing information, Categorizing data, Decision-making,
Oral and written communication, Public speaking, Reading
for understanding, Understanding the need for mutual respect,
Working in groups. |
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