ILEC 8980 - Leading and Shaping an Ethical Culture

3 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
This course will focus on assessing and building an ethical culture within an organization. Instruction will include a study of the legal requirement for managing and developing an ethical organization. Topics such as the Sarbanes-Oxley, the due diligence of the 1991 U.S. sentencing guidelines, methods for measuring the ethical culture of an organization and diagnosing problems, risk analysis, best practices in compliance and ethics, and how to recognize, analyze, and address ethical issues will be discussed. Students will learn how to lead in ways that create a strong ethical culture including how to identify and train “ethical culture carriers”.