Module Code 單元編號 PFS3024 Module Title 單元名稱 ETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES Module Synopsis 單元概要 This course aims to clarify and analyze ethical issues relating to human and organizational development, and to sharpen students’ capacity to make sound ethical judgments and decisions about such issues. The scope of analysis will involve local, and global issues. Besides, the course identifies the major theoretical approaches to moral decision-making (e.g. consequentialist and deontological theories), and the core problem of balancing one’s own beliefs and values with those of others. It will also examine the broader framework of relations between individuals and organizations, and the tensions which arise as inevitable byproducts of these relations. Real-life scenarios and examples are examined, covering the rights and responsibilities of organizations vis-à-vis those of individuals and society; diversity and inclusion in the workplace; the balance between “work” and “life”; conflicts between the goals of private enterprise and the “free market”, on the one hand, and corporate social and environmental responsibilities, on the other; and, in more general terms, the ethical implications of applying the concept of justice beyond national borders; more specifically, for instance, the determination of a tax system for international corporations which appropriately indicates the commitment which they make in various local communities.