Business Ethics
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Description
Business ethics has become a crucial issue in modern societies and an emerging field in management studies, social sciences, and humanities. Due to an ongoing process of globalization along with the lack of national regulatory mechanisms, questions of how to avoid “bad” corporate behavior and how to foster “good” business practices have increasingly risen.
Based on a general introduction to business ethics, we will approach more practical questions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by discussing concrete moral, social, and environmental issues and by covering three essential levels of analysis:
(1) the societal embeddedness of organizations, e.g., strategic and normative stakeholder management and issue management (macro level),
(2) the implementation of responsibility within organizations (strategy, organizational structures, culture; this is the meso level)
(3) integrity and responsible leadership (micro level).
This course aims, with its didactic, at covering the learning elements of “knowing,” “doing,” and “being” concerning ethical questions. It will provide theoretical perspectives in the field of business ethics while students will at the same time work on case studies and apply certain approaches.
Required Material > A detailed electronic reader with (pdf) articles will be provided.
Objectives
- The students recognize and reflect on questions of responsibility; they can apply them at different analytical levels and concerning different (moral, social, and environmental) problems.
- The students learn to distinguish between different business ethics theories and are able to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.
- They can apply concrete tools in the context of business ethics and are capable of using them (transfer) with regard to practical issues.
- The students improve their social and communicative skills.
- As decision-makers in business and society, they reflect on the antecedents and consequences of acting responsibly.
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
This course aims, with its didactic, at covering the learning elements of “knowing,” “doing,” and “being” concerning ethical questions. It will provide theoretical perspectives in the field of business ethics while students will at the same time work on case studies and apply certain approaches.
Attendance > Minimum attendance: 70% of in-presence hours.
Examination information
100% exam
Education
- Master of Arts in Economics and Communication in Public Management and Policy, Lecture, Communication Area, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Arts in Economics and Communication in Public Management and Policy, Lecture, Corsi a scelta - 12 ects, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Common Good, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Organisation and Human Resource Management, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Organisation and Human Resource Management, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Stategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematica Area: Corporate Social Responsibility, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Common Good, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Organisation and Human Resource Management, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Economics in Management, Lecture, Concentration Socially Responsible Management, Elective, 2nd year
