SA_NE_SEP Social Responsibility and Business 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
doc. PhDr. Ing. Jan Urban, CSc.
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 complex managerial responsibilities and ethics in a company or in any other institution in the long term. The course introduces an ethical challenge for business and management environment. It provides theoretical basis and bases for responsible thinking, methodology and models of applied managerial responsibility and ethics. The process of ethical decision making is embedded in the appropriate philosophical frame and understanding of its development up to the present. Students will be provided with the starting points and criteria for responsible ethical behaviour in a company using modern ethical tools comparable at the international level. The focus is also on the ability to distinguish ethical dilemmas, attitudes and their application in practice.
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students are able to:
- understand ethical cause of managerial failures in Czech and foreign companies,
- explain the long-term importance of personal responsibility of a manager and entrepreneur in terms of value-focused thinking and ethical decision making,
- describe the position of entrepreneurial and managerial ethics within economic and social disciplines,
- explain the basic ethical categories and perspectives of management building trust,
- identify ethical dilemmas, differences between responsible and irresponsible behaviour in business decision making and management with regard to its long-term sustainability and societal context,
- evaluate the vision, mission, and strategy of a company from the perspective of ethical dimension,
- implement ethical principles in a company´s code of ethics,
- analyse the system and implementation of corporate compliance programmes,
- implement ethical principles in internal company regulations and create them (including the implementation and creation of codes of ethics),
- be familiar with criminal effect and sanctions.
Syllabus
  • Lectures
  • 1. Economics and morality, business ethics, its definition, and importance.
  • 2. Company and its responsibility to stakeholders.
  • 3. Social responsibility of companies, sustainable business.
  • 4. Code of ethics of an organization, its definition, importance, and types.
  • 5. Codes of ethics topics.
  • 6. Creation and enforcement of codes of ethics.
  • 7. Code of ethics in practice for individual industries: comparison and examples.
  • 8. Ethical management of an organization and its tools, ethical aspects of multinational corporations.
  • 9. Ethics in human resources management.
  • 10. Unethical and unlawful conduct, abuse of business information, and corruption.
  • 11. Corporate governance compliance management.
  • 12. Fiduciary responsibility of members of company management and control bodies.
  • 13. Criminal liability of legal persons.
Literature
    required literature
  • SHAW W. H., 2016. Business ethics. 9th edit. Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 978-1305582088.
  • CAHA, Z. a J. URBAN, 2017. A Code of Ethics as an Organizational Management Tool and its Use in the Czech Republic. RAM-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-94230350-7.
    recommended literature
  • CHANDLER, D., 2019. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation. 5th edit. SAGE Publications. ISBN 1544351577.
Forms of Teaching
Lecture
Teaching Methods
Frontal Teaching
Group Teaching - Cooperation
Project Teaching
Brainstorming
Critical Thinking
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity
Teaching Supported by Multimedia Technologies
Student Workload
ActivitiesNumber of Hours of Study Workload
Daily StudyCombined Study
Partial tasks13 
Preparation for Lectures16 
Preparation for the Final Test23 
Attendance on Lectures26 
Total:780
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
Test – final 70 %
Fulfillment partial tasks 30 %
Exam conditions
To successfully complete the course, it is necessary to achieve a total of at least 70% of the interim and final evaluation under the conditions set out below. In the continuous evaluation, 30 points can be obtained, ie 30%. A total of 70 points, ie 70%, can be obtained in the final evaluation. Overall classification of the course, ie points for the final evaluation (70 - 0) + points from the continuous evaluation (30 - 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 full-time student is obliged to meet the mandatory 70% attendance at contact classes, ie everything except lectures. If the participation is not met, the student will be automatically classified as "-".

Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
Attendance at classes in all forms is solved by a separate internal standard of VŠTE (Records of student attendance at VŠTE). For full-time students, 70% attendance at seminars, and seminars is mandatory.

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: 21537@mail.vstecb.cz).

The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2022, winter 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (winter 2024, recent)
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