Ethical Judgement
Gain the skills to support a climate of ethical leadership and approach ethical dilemmas with confidence.
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What you will learn
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In our complex world, ethical judgement and decision making are essential skills for business leaders.
This micro-credential is ideal for professionals from any sector seeking enhanced leadership skills and the ability to approach ethical dilemmas with confidence.
Interrogate your own personal values and ethics
Develop an understanding of your own ethical subjectivity and consider alternative viewpoints. Explore how personal and societal values influence judgement. Gain a pragmatic and comprehensive framework that builds on subjective strengths and weaknesses for ethical decision making.
Understand how organisational culture influences judgement
Explore the way organisational structure and culture shape individual and group-level judgement and decision-making. Examine how modern business and organisational contexts can either support our ethical judgement and decision-making skills or negate our moral impulses.
Gain frameworks for ethical decision making in complex scenarios
Examine sources of workplace pressure that impede ethical judgement and decision making. Develop the leadership capacity to confidently apply a comprehensive framework to ethical decision making in your own professional context.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Associate Professor Ben Neville
Associate Professor of Management and Marketing
Ben researches and teaches across business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainable business, addressing these issues from strategic, ethical and critical perspectives. He is the Gourlay Fellow of Ethics in Business and a Section Editor of the Corporate Responsibility (Theory and Qualitative) section of Journal of Business Ethics, and Sustainability in the Curriculum Fellow for the Faculty of Business and Economics and Chair of the University's Fair Trade Steering Committee.
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Fees
For individuals
To take Ethical Judgement as a stand-alone micro-credential you'll pay the normal course price.
$1350.00 AUD (inc GST)
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