Business Ethics
Course Outcomes
- Grasp why business ethics is essential to business success
- Apply the habits of business ethics to your daily life
- Make well-informed decisions when faced with a moral dilemma
- Recognize your own ethical and moral strengths.
- Participate in crucial conversations about business ethics with colleagues
- Contribute to a healthy workplace environment
- Help your company exceed its bottom-line goals
Maintaining a high level of ethical standards
In this course, you'll learn about ethics, morality, and business ethics in ways that you haven't before. You'll be guided to reflect on your ethical character and moral attributes so that you can apply what you learn to both your professional and personal life.
You will experience moral dilemmas first-hand through simulated and embodied experiences and have the opportunity to choose what you think would be the right decision if you were faced with these dilemmas in real life.
Part One
In this part, we establish some clarity about the meanings of ethics and morality, and why the principles and practice of business ethics are so crucial for you and your team to create and maintain long-term business success.
We explore the similarities between the five ethical approaches we will be adopting, as well as the differences between them:
We will then consider the practical significance of ethics and morality by considering their relation to both the legal system as well as corporate by-laws. We will examine how our individual ethical behavior relates to, fits with, and is governed by an organization's code of ethics, as well as the establishment of the protocol.
Finally, we will accentuate the importance of this formal structure and emphasize the importance of, and need for, teamwork and collaboration whenever we are faced with complex moral dilemmas in the workplace.
We are calling these five approaches:
Part Two
In Part Two, you will have the chance to practice what you've learned by applying these principles to a few, complex, simulated moral dilemmas. You'll experience 5 different scenarios of common moral problems that often contribute to unhealthy workplace environments:
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Course Content
Your Instructor
Dr. Mark Fagiano
Dr. Mark Fagiano is an internationally recognized author and scholar in the subjects of philosophy and ethics. His 2019 essay describing his unified theory of empathy was awarded the Papazian prize and was published in the International Journal for Philosophical Studies. He is currently finishing his book on empathy and will be publishing it with Bloomsbury Press.
After teaching at four different universities for the last 10 years, Dr. Fagiano launched his own education company in Los Angeles California, Elevate Ethics, which creates and distributes visceral and embodied experiences of common moral dilemmas and empathic situations.
This Business Ethics course has been designed based on Mark's research into neuroscience, psychology, and the history of ethics.
Practice exercises
Experience different ethical situations with immersive videos. At key points during the online course, you'll be prompted to experience what you've learned in one of these exercises.
Bullying
In this scenario, you will learn how to recognize the manipulative habits of bullies in the workplace.
Sexual harassment
In this 360-degree video, you will have the chance to decide for yourself what constitutes sexual harassment.
Embezzlement
Here you will practice making decisions about a colleague who is embezzling money to save her dying son.
Misappropriation of funds
In this scenario, you will decide whether to follow the leaders of your committee or side with dissenters when money for a grant is being misused.
Taking credit for another's work
For this experience, you will have the opportunity to play many roles as a few colleagues try to take credit for other people's work.
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What's included in this course:
- 2.5 hours of learning
- 3 case studies
- 5 practice exercises
- All exercise features
- Quizzes and assessment
- Earn a digital course certificate
- Flexible, self-led format
- Access to updated content
CEU - Continuing Education Units
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD Credits / Hours: 2.5
Certificate No: A031906
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access the classes through the VirtualSpeech website, on any standard web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
The practice exercises can be completed online or in virtual reality (if you have a VR headset).
When you enroll in the course, you'll get 24/7 access to the course (including tutorial videos, case studies, practice exercises, VR, and more) through the VirtualSpeech website and in VR.
Both the online classes and exercises run in your browser, no additional software or download is required.
If you have a VR headset, you can also access the practice exercises in VR. Here's a list of our recommended VR headsets.
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If the course does not meet your expectations, you can get a full refund within 7 days of purchasing the course.