Course Description:

Business Ethics and Practice:
"Ten most important lessons in business ethics for your career."

This is one course that you don’t want to miss easily!
(note: Non Global MBA students are also welcome to take this course, see remark below*** how to register.)

Just read recent headlines you could get some sense of the importance of the subject and the significance of study on ethics.

 Toshiba's CEO and president has resigned because of accounting scandal for overstating its profits of $1.2 billion for the past six years. (July 2015)
 Three US Navy admirals were censured in connection with a bribery scandal involving a Singapore company that held more than US$200 million in contracts to clean and supply ships from the Seventh Fleet. (July 2015)
 Formosa Plastics’ president has resigned only three weeks after he took the job because of his involvement (along with 19 others) in the most serious bribe-taking scandal in the group’s history. (July 2015)
 Swiss police arrested seven FIFA officials, as Swiss and U.S. authorities launched separate sweeping probes of alleged corruption over more than two decades at the world’s top governing body for soccer. (June 2015)
 Six major global banks were fined for almost $6 billion by the U.S. and Britain for forex, Libor abuses. (May 2015)
 Taiwan's Education Minister resigned over an academic publishing scandal involving a peer review ring plotted by a young Taiwanese researcher (2014)
 Education Minister of Germany resigned after her Ph.D was revoked following an investigation into her doctoral thesis that found evidence of plagiarism. (2013)

Ethics is the foundation of everything one can achieve and accomplish in life. Apart from it, success is on shaky ground. Hence the purpose for this course is “to inspire and to empower” students to make the right choice and to transform their life and career.

Subject wise this course will introduce the principles of ethics, temptations and challenges we face every day, sound ethical principles, quality decision process and learn how to draw a clear line between right and wrong, and to transform personal life and work.

The course is organized in ten essential ethical lessons with every lesson beginning with a “guiding question” to be answered in the class and ending with a “practice question” to be discussed in groups for applying learnings in practical issues.

Corporate visits are also arranged to familiarize students with real business world and how business ethical code is practiced.

This course is a journey and it is one journey you won’t regret!

***Students who are not in the Global MBA program are also welcome to take this course. Non GMBA students whose online registration may get rejected, therefore they must come to the first class to get approval and authorization code from Dr. Hsieh or correspond with him by email (dr.edhsieh@gmail.com).