Business Ethics

1.        Basic Principles

2.        The Nature of Business Ethics

3.        Moral Development and Moral Reasoning

4.        Arguments for and against business ethics

5.        Moral responsibility and Blame

6.        Utilitarianism

7.        Weighing social costs and benefits

8.        Rights and duties

9.        Justice and fairness

10.    The ethics of care

11.    Integrating Utility, rights, Justice and caring

12.    An alternative to moral principles: Virtue ethics

13.    Morality in International contexts

14.    Cases for discussion

15.    The Market and Business

16.    The Business system

17.    Free Market and rights

18.    The utility of free Markets

19.    Marxist criticisms

20.    The Mixed Economy

21.    Ethics in the Market Place

22.    Monopoly competition

23.    Oligopolistic competition

24.    Oligopolies and public policy

25.    Business and its external exchanges – ecology and consumers

26.    The Dimensions of Pollution and resource depletion

27.    The ethics of pollution control

28.    The ethics of conserving Delectable Resources

29.    Cases for Discussion

30.    Markets and consumer Protection

31.    The contract view of Business duties to consumers

32.    The due care theory

33.    The social costs view of Manufacturer’s duties

34.    Consumer Privacy

35.    Business and Its Internal constituencies – Employee Issues

36.    Job discrimination: its Nature

37.    Discrimination: Its Extent

38.    Utility, Rights, and justice

39.    Affirmative action

40.    Cases for discussion

41.    The Individual in the organization

42.    The rational organization

43.    The employee’s obligations to the firm

44.    The firm’s duties to the employee

45.    The Political organization

46.    Employee rights

47.    Organizational politics

48.    The caring organization

49.    Cases for Discussion