Business Ethics :: Curriculum

Small Business Ownership & Management Model

Units:

Orientation
Employment Portfolio
- Job Applications
- Letter of Introduction or Cover Letters
- Letters of recommendation
- Job Interviews
- Preparing for Competitive Events: The Job Application and Interview Event
- Resume writing for High School Students
Communication Skills
Career Opportunities
- Do You Really Want To Be.......
Determining Potential as an Entrepreneur
- Discover Your Potential
Economics Related to a Small Business
- Demand in the Market Place
- Recognizing Economic Systems
Developing a Business Plan
- Reconnaissance of a Similar Business
- The Business of Sharing
- Creating Your Business Plan
- Business Plan Part 1 -The Contemporary Business Environment
- Business Plan Part 2 - The Business of Managing
- Business Plan Part 3 - People and Organizations
  - Ice Breaker - Job Description
  - Job Description
Choosing the Type of Ownership
- Multiple-Entities Business Structure
- 3 Types of Business Structures, Which is Best?
- Exploring Business Structures. Which one is right for you??
Marketing Fundamentals
- Market Analysis
- 5 P's and 7 P's of the Marketing Mix
Business Ethics
- Social Responsibility and Ethics
Choosing Business Location
- If You Build It Ray, Will They Come?
Financing the Business
- Attracting Equity Investors
- Start-up costs, operating costs, and personal expenses in business plan.
Managing the Finances
- Common Invoice Terms
- Managing Your Finances - Buying a Car
- Determining Financing for Purchases
Managing the Business
- How to Manage a Business
Human Resources
- Employee Goal Setting
- Creating The Employee Handbook
- Company Organization and Hierarchy Charts
- Develop policies and procedures for handling employee problems
- Performance Reviews
- Designing a Newspaper Advertisement
- Project Planning Management
- Business Management - Workplace Conflict Management
- Business Management - Writing a Basic Business Plan Executive Summary
Promoting the Business
- Advertising and Its Affects on Consumer Decision Making
- Powerful Promotional Plan
Professional Selling
- Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to the Sales Process.
- Determining the Characteristics of a Good Salesman
- Identify the steps of the selling process.
- Demonstrating Effective Customer Service Skills
- Making Sustainable Consumption Choices
Dealing with Legal Issues
Risk Management
- What Could Go Wrong?
- Do NOT Cross The Line!
Technical Assistance and Support
- Management Resources
Leadership Skills Development
- Leadership In Action
Optional Skills for Advanced Learners
- Are You Ready or Not?

Business Ethics

Part of Course: Small Business Ownership & Management Model

Unit Overview / Details

In this unit students explore personal, social and global value systems connecting them to ethics systems, conduct on-line research and write a code of ethics for a fictitious company, relating to the four (4) components of social responsibility. Students will look at companies that have practiced unethical behavior.

Instructional Hours

Classroom: 3 Hours

Content/Concepts

Determine the importance of business ethics and how unethical business practices effect both individuals and society. Define ethics. Discuss and evaluate unethical practices in the workforce from previous class discussions, newspaper articles, news reports, etc.
identify and explore the evolution of ethics in society as represented in the family unit, peer groups and classroom environment.
Using team model, identify where ethics are learned, practiced and refined to fit the individual needs of the student and/or group.
design a code of ethic
collaborate with a team to create a group code of ethics.
Using the group efforts the class will design an agreed upon code of ethics for the class and a visual representation of the code. A poster or coat of arms.

Standards

California Career and Technical Education Standards: 5
California Academic Content Standards: Reinforced: 3
All Standards
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Lessons in this Unit

Social Responsibility and Ethics
Students will conduct on-line research of 5 major corporate websites in order to write a code of ethics for a fictitious company they will create. The students will then describe how these ethical guidelines relate to any or all of the four (4) components of social responsibility. Students will look at 3 companies that have practiced unethical behavior. The students will create a Google Presentation to the class describing any relationship between their company's code of ethics and the four components of social responsibility.