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 access 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 possible ethical situations within the export compliance arena and will know 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

• Differentiate between morals and ethics.
• Identify ethical issues.

Traditional View of Ethics

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

Impact of Ethics on a Company

• Distinguish the forces within a company that shapes its ethical actions. 

Compliance Environment

• Discuss the reasons why compliance regulations and ethical actions clash.  

Ethical Situations in Compliance

• 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

• Recognize the challenges of establishing new ethical or compliance standards.  

Resistance to Change

• Analyze the relationship of the various existing formal and informal policies (or lack of them) that supports an organization’s current ethical actions.
• Determine why ethical practices should remain constant over time.  

Establishing an Ethical Stance

• Design an individual ethical position that supports a compliant organization within the context of the letter and spirit of the law.  

Monitoring and Control of Ethical Compliance

• Recognize the importance of all employees’ actions to support the compliance effort.
• Assess the actions of individuals in the workplace as they relate to trade compliance.  
• Determine the basic methods used to control ethical actions in the compliance workplace.

 

Course Materials:

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