Ethical Decision Making for Success in the Tech Industry

University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethical-decision-making-for-success-in-the-tech-industry

Introduction

Understand ethical awareness.

Understand ethical decision making based on awareness.

Understand ethical challenges for individuals and leaders.

Understand the downfall in all ethical decision making: courage.

Syllabus

Ethical Theories Offer a Starting Point for Ethical Decision Making

This module addresses a few of the many current ethical theories: virtue ethics, consequentialism, and deontology. Each offers a way to view the ethical world. Each provides a means to simplify a complex ethical environment. And each has downfalls that sometimes create even more difficulty for the leader. Despite this, they provide a starting point for beginning to develop one’s own ethical philosophy and principles.

Ethical Awareness, Decision Making, and Courage

This module addresses the ethical decision-making process – how we, as technical leaders, should approach making ethical decisions. Most importantly, there is one lesson on the subject of courage. Courage may be the most important aspect of ethical decision making since we, as leaders must have the courage to follow through with what we believe is the correct ethical path.

The Ethical Challenges Facing Individuals and Leaders

This concluding module for the course addresses the kinds of issues that may arise for the technical leader. Addressed are challenges for individuals and leaders.