Ethics in Trade Compliance - IIEI-320

Course Description: This six-week course explores the topic of ethics as it relates to international trade compliance regulations. Upon completion, students will be able to identify and understand the forces that shape business ethics, the trade compliance environment in which business ethics exists, and the most common factors impacting ethical performance in the compliance workplace. With the knowledge gained in this course, students will be able to critically evaluate and assess possible ethical situations within the export compliance arena and will comprehend the critical importance of their ethical actions in maintaining full compliance.

Prerequisite: None

Course Credit: 3 Credit Hours

Major Course Topics & Course Outcomes

As a result of the group and individual activities included in this course, the student will acquire the following knowledge and skills that can be applied to the workplace: 

Ethics Defined

• To differentiate between morals and ethics.
• To identify and assess ethical issues.

Traditional View of Ethics

• To comprehend how individuals establish their ethical values.
• To know how ethics and the law relate to one another
• Identify the forces that shape personal ethics.

Impact of Ethics on a Company

• To demonstrate an understanding of forces within a company that shapes its actions.

Compliance Environment

• To know the reasons why compliance regulations and ethical actions clash.

Ethical Situations in Compliance

• To critically evaluate the forces in the business environment that cause ethical dilemmas in compliance.
• Identify the possible participants that can cause an ethical issue to exist.

New Ethical Standards

• To demonstrate knowledge and appreciation for the challenges of establishing new ethical standards.

Resistance to Change 

• To analyze and assess the relationship and function of the various existing formal and informal policies (or lack of them) that supports the organizations’ current ethical actions.
• To understand why current ethical practices remain constant over time.

Establishing an Ethical Stance

• To be able to determine and design an individual ethical position that supports a compliant organization within the context of the letter and the spirit of the law.

Monitoring and Control of Ethical Compliance

• To know the importance of all employee’s actions to support the compliance effort.

 

Course Materials:

 There is no textbook for this course. All material for this course is provided in the online classroom to registered students.