A ten-week online certificate program designed for ethics officers or managers concerned with the development and implementation of ethics programs in the work environment.

This online course provides insight into issues, dilemmas, frameworks and cases useful for understanding influences to ethical decision making in an organization. Participants will enhance their knowledge base and gain access to information for continuous development of business ethics expertise. The certificate experience builds skills relevant to managerial responsibilities in organizational ethics, as well as for teaching business ethics in a classroom environment. The course is continually updated to cover current ethical issues, guided by experienced faculty and an advisory board. A certificate is issued upon successful completion of all ten modules

Each participant must have access to a computer and the Internet to complete the course, which is delivered through interaction via the Internet. In addition, some materials will be sent by mail, and the instructors will also be available via telephone and e-mail.

• Defining Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in an Organizational Environment
• Defining Issues in Business Ethics and the Stakeholder Framework for Managing Business Ethics
• Examining the Relationship between Business Ethics and the Legal System – Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley
• Understanding Ethical Decision Making in Organizations and the Role of Corporate Governance
• The Individual, Moral Development and Leadership in Ethical Decision Making
• Understanding Organizational Culture as the Foundation for Ethical Conduct
• Resolving Conflict and Relationships in Organizations: The Importance of Ethical Leadership
• Building Business Ethics Programs: Best Practices, Successes and Failures
• Implementing and Auditing Ethics Programs
• Corporate Ethical Disasters: How to Recognize, Prevent, Discover, Respond, and Recover

• Dr. Linda Ferrell, Associate Professor of Marketing and Creative Enterprise Scholar, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico

• Dr. O.C. Ferrell, Professor of Marketing and Creative Enterprise Scholar, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico

To register for Business Ethics: Education and Organizational Best Practices, go to the Management Certificate Programs registration page.