BUSINESS ETHICS
FOR THE 21st CENTURY (UGBA 170)
This
course was formerly numbered UGBA 196 and UGBA 177.
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UGBA 170 Course Logistics
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COURSE NUMBER: UGBA 170
COURSE TITLE: Business
Ethics for the 21st Century
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2
INSTRUCTOR: Jack
Phillips (http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/phillips.html)
E-MAIL ADDRESS: phillips@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: (Class
meets once/week for 2 hours)
PREREQUISITE(S):
NONE (UGBA 107 is not
required.) The only prerequisites are an open mind; willingness to
participate;
desire for self-development
CLASS FORMAT:
Lecture, case
analysis, discussion, experiential exercises
REQUIRED READINGS:
Course Reader
Helen Palmer: The Enneagram Advantage
Riso & Hudson: The Wisdom of the Enneagram
BASIS FOR FINAL
GRADE: Attendance & Participation; one 1-page paper, two 6-page
papers; Final Exam.
COURSE WEBSITE: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/phillips/
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S
CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
More than at any other time
in history, business is re-shaping the way we think, feel, choose,
relate, and, in fact, live. More than any other human force, business
is impacting every aspect of life on the planet, and is altering
fundamental planetary dynamics. At the same time, however, traditional
sources of wisdom (elders, families, ethnic traditions, classical
religions) are frequently incapable of providing substantial and
concrete orientation and guidance in the complex, fast-paced,
multi-ethnic, evolving global society in which we find ourselves
today. Ethical decisions are far more than just “tough choices.”
Ethics comes from the Greek root ethos,
meaning essential character. When we make
ethical decisions, we are, each time, actually re-creating ourselves,
our relationships, our own lives, and the world we live-in.
This course is not a
simple discussion of some other person’s ideas of “right” and “wrong.”
This course is designed to provide each
student with greater personal clarity about core values and the
confident ability for comprehensive and
effective ethical decision-making and action -- at work and at home.
This course will provide
the tools to anticipate, critically analyze, appropriately respond to,
and provide personal and professional leadership regarding, critical
ethical issues that will arise both specifically during a career in
business and generally in life. The course will explore those
characteristics of human nature that hinder ethical behavior and the
realization of maximum human potential, as well as highlighting
those characteristics and practices that can, with cultivation, allow
all of us to more fully realize our inherent integration, imagination,
creative capacity, and fully-satisfying participation in the business
of life and the larger Earth adventure.
Topics, which will
draw-upon multi-disciplinary revelations from the 20th century in
quantum physics, more comprehensive evolutionary understanding, depth
psychology, systems theory, etc., and thus allow us to meet the
challenges of the 21st century with invaluable unprecedented insight,
will include:
- Exploring the role of the
human enterprise in
the overall evolving story of the Universe
- Exploring the essential
character of
business, of human nature, and of the individual
- Exploring the development
of the human mind
-- its limitations and its potential
- Exploring aspects of self
that are deeper
than personality
- Exploring practices that
foster the
availability of integrated, whole-being wisdom in approaching critical
decisions
- Finding one’s vocation and
unique creative
contribution in the Universal scheme of things
Instruction
will be based-on lecture and case analysis, supplemented by topical and
philosophical articles, essays, videos, and experiential
exercises.
No prior background in
business, ethics, or philosophy is required.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Jack Phillips has been
teaching at Berkeley since 1987, at Haas since 1989, and is
a two-time recipient of the Cheit award
for distinction in teaching. Jack holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from U.C.
Berkeley, a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law (followed by 15 years
of
professional practice in commercial and nonprofit law), is a certified
Iyengar Yoga and Pranayama
Instructor, and a certified Brainwave and Consciousness Trainer. Jack
is primarily interested in the development of individual human
potential, and the integration of that potential into an ultimate
context of meaning and purpose.
10/20/06
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