Below is a sample seminar outline, for the education of business managers, officers, and directors. The actual lesson plan for your course will have elements tailored to your specific business and its management -- and the background and job descriptions of the persons attending.
Sample from seminar entitled Ethics for Business Managers.
This seminar equips management to recognize and manage ethical problems that have the potential for negative impact on the business. This is not a traditional academic course in ethics. The goal of the seminar is to provide practical information for business management.
- In this course we summarize the governmental enforcement of business ethics in your business. We point out the economic dangers of ignoring ethics in business decision-making. The participants in our seminar use case studies in analyzing problems involving the interests of stockholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and government.
- Methods and goals of ethical analysis are introduced. The course also covers techniques for implementing, and evaluating specific types of conduct desired by management or government guidelines. Problem solving techniques and tools are provided for use in the business world.
- Ethics is shown as a driver of superior corporate performance. Address the interests of stockholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and government, and you drive a business forward.
This particular seminar communicates to the student, the ideas that:
- 1. "A traditional value such as honesty --- and others such
as promise keeping, truth telling, justice, benevolence --- endures because it
is essential to the social fabric of human existence. Without certain
fundamental principles of fair dealing and mutual respect, business would be
impossible." Rion, The Responsible Manager, 1996.
- 2. The American legal system contains laws that impact
negatively on businesses that violate established ethical principles expressed
in several regulatory laws.
- 3. He/she has been furnished, in the seminar, with tools to decide ethics problems that will arise in the business.
In short, the student is (in this order) --- (1) motivated, (2) informed, and then (3) taught how to identify and solve ethics problems in business.
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