Guideline 4

Learning purpose

By the end of this unit you will have a better understanding of some topics related to Ethics at the workplace. All these issues will be studied by applying different strategies and skills in the   communicative competencies –reading, listening, writing, and speaking-. In addition, you will be fostering your thinking skills when solving case studies or making decisions as well as your collaborative and team work.

Specific competencies

By the end of this unit, you will:

• Read about ethics in the organizations (honesty and dishonesty).
• Listen to different people talking about ethics dilemmas in big companies and how this is important when doing business.
• Look at some expressions relating to leaders´ characteristics and discuss which characteristics are most typical.
• Look at some diplomatic and less diplomatic negotiating language and hear it being used in context. They then will use it themselves in real text.