Business Ethics
UndergraduateLTU-MGT2BET2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Business Ethics
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critique ethical theories using discipline-specific language and concepts within a business ethics context.
- Analyse and take a moral position in relation to a complex issue in a business ethics context through the location and management of relevant information.
- Apply ethical theories to support/reject a specific moral position as it applies to a business ethics dilemma.
- Argue a stance on a moral dilemma in a business ethics context in a written case study.
- Introduction to Business Ethics
- Normative Theories of Ethics
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Global Ethics
- Environmental Ethics
- Ethics and Moral Issues
- Ethical Practices and Expectations at Work
- Ethics, Leadership, and Culture
- Ethical Decision-Making
In this subject, you will be introduced to a number of moral frameworks that you will use to analyse ethical issues for management. You will participate in an innovative and challenging learning experience/process via the completion of online activities and in-class assessment tasks. You will adopt relevant roles to participate in a high-level ethics and rights discussion and debate, considering issues relevant to organisations, global trade, advertising, the environment, politics, corruption and governance and the person as an individual. Working individually and in teams, within a collaborative learning environment, you will explore and analyse relevant literature to develop moral reasoning, in order to present an ethically based case to their peers and/or external parties.
- One in-class test to be completed to be completed in week 4. Equivalent to 1000 words (20%)
- Analysis of an organisational ethical dilemma equivalent to 1500 words (40%)
- Individual case study equivalent to 1500 words (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-BUS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Business
- LAT-ART-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Arts
- LAT-PYS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Psychological Science
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed MGT2BEX (Business Ethics) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG