BUS 201: Principles of Management - Textbook

Learning Objectives

• Explain the need for ethics in the workplace
• Explain the US Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and how the compliance steps encourage ethical behavior
• Describe the influences on an employee’s ethical choices
• Describe practical steps that managers should take to model ethical behavior and encourage ethical choices
• Explain corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its relationship to economic performance

• Understand the application of ethics to business decisions

• Read: The Need for Ethics in the Workplace

• Read: US Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations

• Read: Influences on Ethical Choices

• Read: How Managers Can Encourage Ethical Behavior

• Read: Corporate Social Responsibility

• Assignment: Memo to 3M CEO

• Discussion: Are They Simply Guidelines?

• Discussion: You Have the Wrong Place

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