EBook: Prenkert, J. D., Barnes, A. J., Perry, J. E., Haugh, T., & Stemler, A. (2022). Business law: The ethical, global, and e-commerce environment (18th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. This chapter introduces the concept of corporate social responsibility and well as described different ethical theories that govern corporate behavior and decision making. In this chapter you will learn about the steps in ethical decision making and critical thinking errors that business stakeholders can make. Last, the chapter examines how stakeholders can be ethical leaders in their chosen field.
• Chapter 4: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Critical Thinking Articles, Websites, and Videos: This link will bring you to the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara. This website contains various resources relevant to your study of business ethics including some interesting podcasts.
• About the center. (n.d.). Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara. This link contains descriptions of the most popular logical fallacies that may derail critical thinking and writing.
• Logical fallacies. (n.d.). Purdue Online Writing Lab. This video explains corporate social responsibility.
• David Preece. (2014, November 25). What is corporate social responsibility? Investopedia [Video]. YouTube. This video explains logical fallacies which can impact a business stakeholder’s critical decision making.
• GCFLearnFree.org. (2019, August 28). Logical fallacies [Video]. YouTube. Assignment: Imagine that you work for a mortgage broker.
You are considering the application for a mortgage for someone who falls below the income threshold. When you bring the application to your supervisor, she tells you “Just approve it. We need to make our quota this month.
Who cares if they go into foreclosure!” Referring to the suggestions in your text about how to resist requests to act unethically, what would you do? Regardless of whether you are an attorney arguing in court or a business stakeholder pitching to shareholders or a potential client, adding support for your argument from appropriate resources strengthens your content.
For this discussion board, be sure to include a citation to an appropriate source that supports the point you are making. (HINT: Your textbook is a great source!)
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