MGT7205: Seminar in Ethics and Social Responsibility

Doctoral level course focusing on topics related to business ethics including corporate social responsibility, stakeholder relationships, ethical leadership, trust and trustworthiness, morality and justice, international business ethics, and teaching business ethics. Students will be exposed to literature reviews of weekly topics and will discuss how to develop appropriate literature reviews for peer reviewed journals. The class will also begin to examine the basic design of research articles and analyze research paradigms employed at the individual and organizational levels of analysis. Students will develop a research proposal up to the point of data collection and will discuss how they would collect and analyze the data. This course will incorporate research concepts being covered in the second statistics for research methods course. Students will also develop resources to be used in teaching the course topics.