Introduction and Overview

The Marketplace: Where Business and Values Meet

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Goal/ Purpose This course is intended to help prepare future managers and business leaders deal more effectively with ethical conflicts and fulfill numerous and often competing responsibilities in a fluid and changing global environment.

Explore and develop your concept and strategies for becoming a values-based leader (VBL). –What does VBL leadership mean to you? –What will you do to become a values- based leader? –If not, why not and what alternative model of leadership values will you practice?

Concepts and Definitions VBL = responsible managers and leaders of sustainable enterprises of the future –Responsible = (1) “answerable legally or morally for the discharge of a duty, trust, or debt” (Funk and Wagnalls) –Responsibility = “Burden” (Merriam- Webster) »What are those duties, trusts, and debts? »What burdens of business?

–Sustain= (1) to keep from sinking or falling; especially by bearing up from below; uphold; support (7) to uphold or support as being true or just »True or just to what or whom? Responsibilities  »Societal »Legal »Professional

Pedagogy and My Role as Teacher or Educator Teach = (1) “to impart knowledge by lessons; give instruction” (2) “to train by practice or exercise” (F&W) –Compare accounting Educate = (1) “to develop or train the mind, capabilities, or character by instruction or study” –“educo” (Latin) – “to draw out, to rear, bring up, educate”

Ground Rules Teach me key Chinese phrases –Written and spoken Slow me down with English translation Ask questions –No stupid questions Help me get to know you –Office meetings and lunches

John Dewey Our net conclusion is that life is development, and that developing, growing, is life (Democracy and Education) Growth itself is the only "moral" end (Reconstruction in Philosophy)

The Purpose of Education Positive change and growth as goal or object of education “Educare” –“draw out” –“lead out” Of what? Toward what? Learning Community –Shared responsibility –Roles and Responsibilities Faculty Students

General Course Objectives Foster and strengthen leadership and management skills related to the ethical and social dimensions of business issues and problems Create learning environments that will promote and enhance the growth and development of all to become better business leaders, managers and persons.

Our Path (Itinerary) Social Contract Basis of Ethics in Communities and Organizations (Foundations) Personal Responsibilities Corporate and Business Responsibilities Global Responsibilities

Conceptual Tools for your Toolbox Social Contract Social Capital Virtue Ethics (Confucius and Aristotle) Normative Decision Making Frameworks Sales Ethics and Responsibilities Organizational Ethics Organizational Culture Moral Psychology Ethical and Cultural Relativism Distributive Justice

Student Responsibilities / Burdens Values-based leadership plan Group case analyses Group issue and case related to Taiwan