Overview

This unit aims to explore the disruptive nature of emerging technology for businesses - technology that has the power to simultaneously create incredible opportunities for advancement and to unleash potentially catastrophic consequences. In particular, this unit covers the ethical considerations of innovative business solutions and emerging technological developments. Students will be introduced to key ethical frameworks used in the analysis of managerial issues, as well as strategies for overcoming cognitive biases that may lead to suboptimal decision-making. This unit helps students develop proactive reasoning abilities, so that they are better positioned to make, and persuasively present, informed judgements about contemporary and future managerial issues.

Requisites

Prerequisites
MGT10010 Ethics of Innovation

Rule

50 credit points

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
11-March-2024
09-June-2024
Last self-enrolment date
24-March-2024
Census date
05-April-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
26-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
04-November-2024
09-February-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-November-2024
Census date
29-November-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
27-December-2024
Results released date
04-March-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Understand and explain competing perspectives concerning the relationship between business, technological, and societal development
  • Apply ethical frameworks to analyse and offer solutions to dilemmas in local and international business contexts
  • Recognise and explain how cognitive biases influence decision-making for issues involving emerging technology
  • Effectively communicate with a range of audiences within workplace, industry, and cultural contexts

Teaching methods

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

All Applicable Locations

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Case AnalysisIndividual 30 - 40% 1,2 
Major AssignmentIndividual 30 - 50% 1,2,3 
PresentationIndividual 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Applying various approaches (Indigenous, historical) to the study of current and future organisational decision-making  

  • Forming and evaluating the strength of arguments 

  • Using moral principles to inform decision-making 

  • Ethical considerations and consequences of decisions 

  • A focus on character and virtue-based decision-making 

  • The role of cognitive biases in management decision-making  

  • Voice and values – building the courage to call out biased and unethical decisions 

  • Psychological safety, organisational culture, and employee voice  

  • Critical and reflective skills for evaluating the learning experience  

  • Critical thinking skills for solving contemporary and future management issues 

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.