High School Program
JA Business Ethics™
Through hands-on classroom activities, JA Business Ethics™ fosters ethical decision-making in students as they prepare to enter the workforce and global marketplace.
Following participation in the program, students will be able to:
- Recognize, analyze, and apply basic terminology, theories, and concepts common to the study of ethics.
- Analyze their ethical values and philosophies, establish ethical priorities, and recognize key ethical issues within the workplace and around the world.
- Apply ethical decision-making to dilemmas and evaluate their decision-making processes.
Session Titles and Summaries
Session One: Introduction to Ethics—Ethos Island
Students participate in a simulation designed to introduce ethics and the rationale for ethical standards in an interdependent group.
Session Two: Personal Ethics—Values, Goals, and Choices
Students analyze personal ethical beliefs and evalute personal values and goals. Students begin to make plans for achieving their goals.
Session Three: Ethical Dilemmas—How to Decide?
Students recognize major ethics theories and apply them to scenarios while analyzing their own ethical philosophies.
Session Four: Work Ethics—Ethical Decision-Making
Students explore an ethical decision-making model and evaluate personal decision-making processes.
Session Five: Organizational Ethics
Students review professional duties and potential ethical conflicts in various departments in a business, and participate in a group activity to apply the information to a business.
Session Six: Social Responsibility
Students explore two prevalent, but conflicting, theories of social responsibility in business ethics and compare their values with both theories.
Session Seven: Global Business Ethics—Multinational Issues
Students explore several complex ethical issues found in global business during a role-playing activity. This culminating session incorporates overall program concepts.
Additional program components:
Students participate in the JA Business Ethics Message Board.
Students are encouraged to participate in the JA Business Ethics Contest.
JA Worldwide® gratefully acknowledges Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and The John Templeton Foundation for their dedication to the development and implementation of the high school program JA Business Ethics. JA Worldwide appreciates its partnership with Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and The John Templeton Foundation to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
For additional information on this and all Junior Achievement programs, please visit www.ja.org