NZ_SRE Social responsibility and ethics

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Tsolmon Jambal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Tsolmon Jambal, Ph.D.
Department of Human Resource Management – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Supplier department: Department of Human Resource Management – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives supported by learning outcomes
The course focuses on understanding corporate, managerial and professional social responsibility and the importance of ethics in economics, business and the performance of professional activities, with an emphasis on expert activity. It introduces the main areas of voluntarily accepted corporate social responsibility, ethics of managers and members of professional and expert professions, as well as the nature of general and specific ethical standards in the work of experts. Attention is paid to the codes of ethics of experts, expert organizations and professional chambers, their composition, main topics and the way of their creation, the expert's relationship to society, to the client, to the profession, to fellow experts and expert institutions. Students will also get acquainted with the main and typical ethical dilemmas in expertise, and ways to solve them. The topics of the course also include differences in codes of ethics within different expert branches and the most common weaknesses in the ethical conduct of experts and expert institutions. The subject of the course is also the main topics of legal regulation of expertise, unlawful conduct of experts, including ways and tools of their enforcement, especially on the basis of examples.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the students:
- Apply the theoretical knowledge of psychology as a science in practice.
- Understand the importance of social responsibility and ethics in expertise including the ethical dimension of expert work.
- Apply the knowledge of the main area of experts´ social responsibility and the principles of experts´ professional ethics.
- Understand the nature, importance, and types of the common standards of expertise ethics and their ethical context.
- Understand the meaning and the nature of the ethical management tools in the context of expertise.
- Have a command of the creation and implementation of expert and expert organizations´ code of ethics.
- Understand particular and specific ethical topics associated with expert activities including legal responsibility.
Syllabus
  • Lectures:
  • 1. Basic ethical concepts, the relationship between economics and morality, the importance of ethics in economics, business ethics, personal and professional ethics and ethics in professional activities, their definition and meaning.
  • 2. Social responsibility of experts, ethics in expertise and ethical dimension of expert work, meaning and types of general ethical norms in expert's work, ethical requirements for communication and expressions of experts, ethical expertise.
  • 3. Ethical dimensions of the expert's relationship with clients and third parties, ethics in accepting and performing expert contracts.
  • 4. Honour, credibility, integrity and impartiality of the expert, their meaning and content.
  • 5. Importance and nature of tools of ethical management of expertise, functions of professional chambers and expert institutes.
  • 6. Topics of codes of ethics governing the activities of experts.
  • 7. Creation and enforcement of ethical codes of experts and expert organizations.
  • 8. Codes of ethics in the practice of individual expert sectors: comparisons and examples.
  • 9. Codes of ethics in the practice of expert professions: comparisons and examples.
  • 10. The most common weaknesses and errors in the ethical management of expertise, the ethical conduct of experts and the code of ethics of the expert organization.
  • 11. Legal responsibility and legal obligations of experts and methods of their enforcement.
  • 12. Legal regulation of expert activities, offenses of experts.
  • 13. Examples and analysis of legal regulation in various areas of expertise.
Literature
    required literature
  • SHAW, W. H., 2016. Business ethics. 9th ed. Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 978-1305582088.
  • CAHA, Z. and J. URBAN, 2017. A code of ethics as an organizational management tool and its use in the Czech Republic. Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-942303-50-7.
    recommended literature
  • RASCHE, A., M. MORSING and J. MOON (eds.), 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107114876.
  • POPAL, P., 2019. Small to Medium Sized Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of International Networks. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0367197650.
  • CRANE, A. et al., 2019. Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198810070.
  • SCHARDING, T., 2018. This is Business Ethics. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119055044.
  • STATLER, M. and D. OLIVER, 2016. The Moral of the Story: Re-framing Ethical Codes of Conduct as Narrative Processes. Journal of Business Ethics. 136(1), 89-100. ISSN 1573-0697.
  • GEVA, A., 2006. A Typology of Moral Problems in Business: A Framework for Ethical Management. Journal of Business Ethics. 69(2), 133-147. ISSN 1573-0697.
  • ERWIN, P. M., 2011. Corporate Codes of Conduct: The Effects of Code Content and Quality on Ethical Performance. Journal of Business Ethics. 99(4), 535-548. ISSN 1573-0697.
Forms of Teaching
Lecture
Tutorial
Teaching Methods
Frontal Teaching
Brainstorming
Critical Thinking
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity
Student Workload
ActivitiesNumber of Hours of Study Workload
Daily StudyCombined Study
Final test11
Partial tasks3030
Preparation for the Final Test2139
Attendance on Lectures26 
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion 8
Total:7878
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
Test – final 70 %
Partial tasks 30 %
Exam conditions
To successfully complete the course, it is necessary to achieve at least 70% of the final evaluation under the conditions set out below. In the final evaluation, a total of 100 points can be obtained, i.e. 100%. Overall classification of the course, i.e. points for the final evaluation (100 - 0): A 100 - 90, B 89.99 - 84, C 83.99 - 77, D 76.99 - 73, E 72.99 - 70, FX 69.99 - 30, F 29.99 - 0.

The student of the full-time form of study is obliged to fulfil the obligatory 70% attendance at the contact teaching (lectures and seminars). If the participation is not met, the student will be automatically classified "-".

Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
The attendance in the lessons in all forms of study is dealt with by a special internal standard (Registration of VŠTE students' attendance). The student of the full-time form of study is obliged to fulfill the obligatory 70% attendance at the contact teaching (lectures and seminars). Attendance at lectures is monitored for full-time studies.If the participation is not met, the student will be automatically classified as "-".

Students with an individual study plan will take only a 100-point final test in the exam period. However, students are obliged to contact the teacher immediately after the approval of the individual study plan (ISP), if the student does not do so, his ISP will not be taken into account. (In case of any questions, they can contact the subject guarantor via email: caha@mail.vstecb.cz).

The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2021, winter 2022, winter 2023.
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