The University of San Francisco USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center All USF Faculty Authored Books USF Faculty and Staff Authored Books 2020 A Way of Proceeding: Ethical Decision-Making for Management Students at Jesuit Colleges Kimberly Rae Connor PhD University of San Francisco, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.usfca.edu/faculty_books_all Part of the Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Commons, and the Ethics in Religion Commons Recommended Citation Connor, Kimberly Rae PhD, "A Way of Proceeding: Ethical Decision-Making for Management Students at Jesuit Colleges" (2020). All USF Faculty Authored Books. 60. https://repository.usfca.edu/faculty_books_all/60 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USF Faculty and Staff Authored Books at USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. It has been accepted for inclusion in All USF Faculty Authored Books by an authorized administrator of USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Way of Proceeding: Ethical Decision-Making for Management Students at Jesuit Colleges Photo credit: University of San Francisco By Kimberly Rae Connor, PhD Created for the University of San Francisco MBA Program Fall 2020 © Kimberly Rae Connor Introduction and Acknowledgements What follows is a suggestion for how to teach Ethical Decision-Making for graduate students at Jesuit universities and colleges. This content has also been adapted for undergraduates. This course is based on a seven-week instructional model. We included citations for readings but not full text. We reasoned that instructors may wish to choose or update the readings; also, the combined text with readings would be unwieldy. Included are a course syllabus with assignments for groups and individuals, a redacted list of suggested readings, and lectures for each weekly topic. Concluding the Ethical Decision-Making “book” is an appendix of a program called the Management Exercises. In the tradition of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, the Management Exercises reflect the more – the magis – to better prepare students as leaders and citizens. The Management Exercises seek to further orient students toward a life of questioning and engagement as students learn to exercise discernment, to build character, and to enact citizenship. To participate in the Management Exercises is to reflect on one’s journey through life. Management Exercises was designed to be an online program for MBA students that also included face-to-face gatherings of cohorts of students. Management Exercises also included a graded component; each module was linked to academic coursework. Students were introduced to the program in Ethical Decision-Making, an early core course, which set a strong foundation for the program. More information about how to add Management Exercises to a program or how to apply it in other settings is included in this appendix. I wish to thank Juman Khweis for editing and assembling this text, especially laboring under pandemic circumstances. Also, thanks to Charlotte Roh, librarian at Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, who also provided a grant and encouragement to create Open Access resources. Thanks and praise go to Father Michael Garanzini, SJ, whose encouragement for Jesuit schools of business and management to create a new paradigm for instruction and to freely share resources, inspired my effort. I’m grateful for the support of several Jesuit organizations, including the CJBE and IAJBS, for hosting conferences where me and my colleague in Management Exercises could present our work and Loyola Andalucia, Spain, for inviting us to present Management Exercises to their faculty and students. Finally, thanks to the students and their response to this way of proceeding. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam Table of Contents Syllabus ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 Week 1: Introduction to Class and Each Other ................................................................................ 6 Assignments ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Readings ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 Lecture 1 ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 Week 2: Organizational and Personal Ethical Climates ........................................................... 29 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................29 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................30 Lecture 2 ......................................................................................................................................................31 Week 3: Social Context and Implicit Assumptions ...................................................................... 38 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................38 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................39 Lecture 3 ......................................................................................................................................................40 Week 4: Rhetorical and Philosophical Foundations .................................................................... 54 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................54 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................55 Lecture 4 ......................................................................................................................................................56 Week 5: Virtue Theories (Self): What evokes beauty at work? ................................................. 79 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................79 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................80 Lecture 5 ......................................................................................................................................................81 Week 6: Utilitarian Theories (Society): What accomplishes good at work? ...................... 87 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................87 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................88 Lecture 6 ......................................................................................................................................................89 Week 7: Deontology (World): What upholds truth at work? ................................................... 97 Assignments ..............................................................................................................................................97 Readings .....................................................................................................................................................98 Lecture 7 ......................................................................................................................................................99 Final Exam .................................................................................................................................................. 117 Assignment ............................................................................................................................................. 117 Appendix...................................................................................................................................................... 119 Special Section: Management Exercises Continued: Accompaniment During COVID-19 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 174 Syllabus MBA 6003 Ethical Decision-Making Kimberly Rae Connor, PhD Professor [email protected] COURSE OBJECTIVES ▪ To become empathetic to diverse social contexts in a pluralist society ▪ To become responsive to our obligations as citizens and a globalized economy ▪ To acquire tools for analyzing moral dilemmas and reaching ethical conclusions ▪ To become proficient in articulating ethical arguments ▪ To exercise and develop oral and written communication skills ▪ To