ORG 494 3 - Ethical Leadership in Organizations

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

This course provides students with active, engaged learning experiences involving organizational psychology as a science for improving human welfare. Students are exposed to a framework for ethical decision making drawn from the disciplines of organizational psychology, philosophy, and business/management that is intensively explored through assigned reading, interactive classroom discussions, and experiential exercises involving application of course concepts to an organizational situation. The major project in the course is a n organizational study that each student pursues at a site of his/her choosing. These projects allow students to vigorously apply the framework for ethical decision making. Engaged learning, interdisciplinary inquiry, and values exploration characterize this project.

Prerequisite(s): COR 2, Junior Standing and Above.