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OMM640: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility — Study Guide Table of Contents
A self-contained set of study guides synthesizing every reading, discussion prompt, and assignment from OMM 640 — including a full deep-dive guide for each of the ten chapters of the course text, so the chapters can be studied entirely from this site. Open a week below to browse its guides, or jump straight to the matching Canvas item.
Weekly Guides
Week 1 Foundations · Ethics, Business & Social Responsibility 4 guides
Week 1 — Overall Study Guide
Course frame · what business ethics is, why it matters & who the stakeholders are
Chapter 1 — Ethics and Business
Deep-dive: ethics in a business context, why ethics matters & individual vs. organizational roles
Deep-dive: foundations of CSR, its advantages & the shareholder-to-stakeholder shift
Contemporary ethical challenges facing today's managers
Week 2 Identifying Ethics Issues & Compliance Drivers 5 guides
Week 2 — Overall Study Guide
Spotting ethics issues & what drives ethics and compliance programs
Chapter 3 — Identifying Ethics Issues
Deep-dive: recognizing ethical dimensions, recurring issues & recognition challenges
Chapter 4 — Drivers of Ethics and Compliance
Deep-dive: evolution of the ethics office, laws & regulations, voluntary initiatives
Discussion — Ethics Versus Compliance
Where rule-following ends and genuine ethical culture begins
Chapters 3–4 applied: ethics vs. compliance and workforce training design
Week 3 Ethical Decision Making & Ethical Traps 5 guides
Week 3 — Overall Study Guide
How ethical decisions get made — and the traps that derail them
Chapter 5 — Ethical Decision Making
Deep-dive: traditional ethical theories, individual & situational factors, decision models
Chapter 6 — Ethical Traps
Deep-dive: why good people do bad things — pressures from others & cognitive fallacies
Discussion — The Ethical Trap
Analyzing an ethical trap through Chapters 5–6
Assignment — Ethical Decision-Making Model
Apply a decision-making model to a case from Ethical Decision-Making
Week 4 Ethical Leadership & Organizational Culture 5 guides
Week 4 — Overall Study Guide
Ethical leadership and the organizational culture that sustains it
Chapter 7 — Ethical Leadership
Deep-dive: why ethical leadership matters, its characteristics & how to become one
Chapter 8 — Organizational Culture
Deep-dive: culture as an ethics driver, developing ethical culture & ethics programs
Leadership failure cases through the Chapter 7 lens
Assignment — Developing an Ethical Culture
Chapters 7–8 applied: designing a culture that makes ethics stick
Week 5 Implementing an Ethics Program 3 guides
Week 5 — Overall Study Guide
Building and running an organizational ethics program
Chapter 9 — Implementing an Ethics Program
Deep-dive: program structure, code of conduct, training, reporting & monitoring
Drafting code-of-conduct guidance for a medical tourism scenario
Week 6 Looking Forward · Final Paper 4 guides
Week 6 — Overall Study Guide
Emerging ethical issues, global ethics & the final paper
Chapter 10 — Looking Forward
Deep-dive: identifying ethical risks, emerging issues & the future of organizational ethics
Ethics at the center of global and local challenges
The capstone: audit, evaluate & future-proof an ethics program
COURSE REFERENCE
Gonzalez-Padron, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility for Managers (2nd ed.)
The required course text. All ten chapters have a dedicated deep-dive guide above; the full ebook remains available through the Constellation reader (log in to Canvas first).