Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe the role of ethics in business environment; establish a relationship between business ethics and profitability and explain the CSR; compare the origins and goals of virtue ethics in the East and the West; evaluate the role of utilitarianism in contemporary business and explain Immanuel Kant’s concept of duty and the categorical imperative and the model of Kantian business ethics; identify key types of business-stakeholder relationships and key approaches to stakeholder theory; define stakeholder categories and identify the factors that affect stakeholder prioritization; evaluate the claim that sustainability benefits both business and the environment; describe the processes of acculturation and enculturation; describe the ways ethical standards change over time and the role of geography and religion on global business relationships; identify specific ethical duties managers owe employees; discuss gender pay gap and identify management’s responsibilities when monitoring employee behavior at work; define employees’ responsibilities to the company for which they work; explain how confidentiality applies to trade secrets, intellectual property, and customer data; describe employees’ duty to follow company policy and the code of conduct; outline the rules and laws that govern employees’ criticism of the employer; explain the benefits and challenges of employee diversity in the workplace and describe workplace accommodations for different abilities and faiths; and outline the benefits, drawbacks and ethical challenges of telecommuting and explain the benefits, drawbacks, and ethical issues of job sharing and flextime.