2016-2017 Graduate Catalog

WGB 614 Social & Legal Responsibilities in Business

Sustainable organizational practices require managers to pay attention to the economic, environmental and social impact of organizational strategies and actions. This course focuses on ethical and legal issues that organizations and individual managers face in achieving triple bottom-line sustainability. Ethical decision-making frameworks provide principles for dealing with challenges posed by technology, globalization, and societal changes and for fulfilling personal as well as corporate social responsibility. Legal topics survey business regulation and processes, forms of business organizations, intellectual property, and commercial transactions.

Credits

3

Notes

This course is required. Students may take at any point in their program but before the capstone.