Task: What issues may potential employee have that would ethically challenge their position?
1. Relate the market system to the need for ethics in business and distinguish it from the law and concepts of virtue and morality.
2. Explore ethics in the context of relativism, psychological egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics.
3. Examine the ideas of character ethic, female ethic, human rights, and ethical action.
4. Explain the factors influencing employee issues including the right to work, employment at will, due process and employee participation, health and safety standards, family responsibilities, the right to privacy, and substance abuse testing.
5. Examine the professional ethics and responsibilities of intermediaries, managerial responsibility and loyalty, and employee responsibilities to the community.
6. Explain how the traits of ethical leaders and the influence of the group affect moral responsibility.