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Getting Started:Ethics In Business
2010 NAF Summer Institute
About Me
• Ethics in Business• Entrepreneurship• Intro to Business/Finance• Thirty years experience
• Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, Ca
• Academy of Finance• Department Chairperson,
Lead Teacher
Denise Gregor
Springboard
What Matters Most to Me
Categorizing: What Matters Most to Me
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
This activity encourages students to start thinking about what matters the most to them. They then speculate on how the notion of personal values might be connected with the Ethics in Business course.
Make a list of things that are important to you. Consider: Possession and other tangible items,
people, ideas, beliefs, experiences, etc.
Ethics in Business: Assumptions & Prerequisites
No prerequisite courses are
necessary for students.
No prerequisite courses are
necessary for students.
Students have some basic
computer skills (ability to
keyboard, use word
processing programs, do
simple Internet research).
Students have some basic
computer skills (ability to
keyboard, use word
processing programs, do
simple Internet research).
Students have some basic
understanding of business.
Students have some basic
understanding of business.
Ethics in Business: Course Topics
• Introduction to Ethics• Ethics and the Employee• Ethics and the Manager• Ethics and the Organization• Ethics by Discipline • Ethics and Society• Career Development in Ethics
Ethics in Business: Culminating Project• Project Overview: Students select a corporation they
might want to work for in the future, and work in groups to investigate and profile the business in a case study.
• Driving Question: “Does Company X meet my ethical standards as a potential employer?”
Ethics in Business: Culminating Project• Main skill & content objectives:
• Identify ethical challenges of the free market system
• Discuss corporate social responsibility, and sustainability
• identify issues of doing business abroad
• Final product: 5- to 8-minute oral presentation of their case study to an invited audience
EducationNews.Com
“Assuring Meaningful School Work”– Andy Rothstein, June 2010
“Ethics was a course in which students had the chance to speak their mind about what they thought about the work environment. This course taught me how to act and maintain ethical thinking at work. We had debates, and in these debates we all had different opinions. Some people might think, “Those kids are in high school they just follow the crowd everyone thinks the same. Well, we all had voices in this class. There was a way for my classmates to acknowledge my perspective and now I know that I can make a difference in my Latino community by taking a chance to make a change. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”-Marianna Ramirez, Class of 2010
Ethics in Business: Student Learning Artifacts
Lesson 10: Ethics in Finance and Accounting
Ethics in Business: Experience the Curriculum
• Four Corners: Real-Life Consequences of Unethical Behavior in Business– Unit #1– Lesson #3: The Importance of Ethics in Business
• Display understanding of the importance of ethical corporate practices.
• Students will be able to synthesize some of the conclusions they reached in examining real life consequences of ethical behavior.
• It is important to work for a company or organization with an ethical reputation.
• It’s okay to work for a company whose ethics are questionable, as long as you don’t take part in any unethical practices yourself.
• It’s okay to go to work for an unethical company as long as you try to change its business practices—after all, it’s easier to influence a company from within.
• You should boycott (not buy products from) a company known for its unethical business practices.
Four Corners
• Your company’s questionable ethics shouldn’t stop you from getting ahead in your career as long as you make a positive contribution to society in other ways, such as charitable donations or volunteer work.
• Even if you are told to do something that goes against your better judgment, as long as you are not being asked to break the law, you should just keep quiet at work.
Four Corners
Support from Curriculum Leaders
Here to help – both with
content and pedagogy.
Here to help – both with
content and pedagogy.
Ready to hear your ideas about
how to revise and improve the
course.
Ready to hear your ideas about
how to revise and improve the
course.Contact
information is always available on the Course Overview page
of the NAF Curriculum
Library.
Contact information is
always available on the Course Overview page
of the NAF Curriculum
The Collaboration Network
• Andy Rothstein’s Blog
• Discussion Forums for all NAF courses
• Multimedia presentations
• Getting Started Guides
Joanne Bartley
• Ernst & Young– Educate young people who might eventually
become part of their workforce or in companies they serve
– NAF and Ernst & Young decided to create an Ethics in Business course together with the help of the Pearson Foundation
