Week‘l Discussion
Paper details:
Directions: Watch and comment on these videos in this week’s forum. These are three TED lectures (videos)
that relate to basic issue in this course.
Our values, along with the socialization provided by parents, friends, work associates, and others, and the
culture and control systems of the organizations where we work, determine the ethical decisions we make
when we face business ethics issues. This link gives us a way to think about values:
Jonathan Haidt: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind
The second two TED lectures relate to the environment and the issue of sustainability, which is the
paramount ethics issue facing business systems globally. The last assigned reading in the course relates to
environmental issues, but I wanted to get this issue up front and central from day 1! These links show a
scientist and an artist who are both “making a difference” in the ways we see and know about this issue:
