91-828 Ethical Issues in Management

Units: 6.0 Department: Public Management Related URLs: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/ Ethical Issues in Management is a course designed to survey various controversial problems, dilemmas and quandaries encountered by private, public or nonprofit managers in the contemporary organization. The course will share a number of strategies, approaches and models of reasoning about ethical issues that those in management can employ as problem-solving techniques. The course will be divided into two interrelated sections. First, issues dealing with "managerial mischief" will be examined. Topics considered in this area include: the causes of illegal, unethical or questionable managerial conduct, controls available to minimize corrupt behavior in organizations, the efficacy of codes of conduct, organizational values and unethical conduct, conflicts of interest and other questionable managerial practices. The second part of the course will examine the many "moral mazes" in management. Topics here addressed include: managing AIDS in the workplace, whistle-blowing, sexual harassment, employee rights, employee screening tests, inside information, confidentiality in the workplace, managing "problem" employees, workplace privacy, employment and post-employment restrictions, and the use and abuse of managerial deception. This section of the course, thus, raises questions about how to resolve those ethical issues that confront managers in their capacity as supervisors and policy makers. The course will rely heavily upon the case analysis method, group discussion and video presentations. Students will chose a particular ethical issue early in the course and through research write a case based upon this issue, analyze it and propose alternative solutions justified by ethical principles and theory. This project will form the basis of the student's grade in the course together with the quality of class participation in the case analyses.

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