Ethical Management and Decision Making (FutureLearn)

Use an ethical decision-making model to explain certain behaviours

Managing in an ethical manner is extremely important, and there have been many cases worldwide of CEOs who lost their jobs because they failed to manage with integrity.

You’ll use an ethical decision-making model to consider ethical principles, obligations and values within the overall management process, and will understand the factors that lead to ethical and unethical behaviour within organisations studying a wide range of case studies.

Evaluate an organisation’s methods for managing corporate responsibility

You’ll then critically reflect upon the issues of managing ethically, and will discuss how society’s expectations are influencing managers and organisations.

Finally, you’ll be able to give your own examples of how ethics can be applied in practice.

Learn from ethical management experts at the University of Law Business School

The University of Law is one of the UK’s longest established specialist providers of legal education.

You’ll be guided throughout by leaders within the ethical management field, and will gain an insight to real-life case studies of businesses across the globe.

What topics will you cover?

- Ethical reasoning and moral decision making

- An ethical decision-making model

- Corporate responsibility

- Ethical management

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Apply a model of ethical decision making to explain behaviour

- Evaluate an organisation’s methods for managing corporate responsibility

- Identify the factors that lead to ethical and unethical behaviour in organisations

- Discuss how society’s expectations are influencing managers and organisations

Who is the course for?

This course is primarily geared towards line, middle and top level managers already established within organisations, young professionals who are looking to start their careers, employees who are looking to develop further within their career and students who are interested in management.