VŠTE:S_BSE Business Ethics - Course Information

S_BSE Business Ethics

Extent and Intensity

2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. et doc. PaedDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Caha, Ph.D., MBA, MSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. et doc. PaedDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Caha, Ph.D., MBA, MSc.
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

Timetable of Seminar Groups

S_BSE/S01: Fri 11:25–12:55 D617, Z. Caha

Prerequisites

OBOR ( CAP )
English Communication Skill, rational thinking, knowledge of academic writing and citation style.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives supported by learning outcomes

The subject focuses on the comprehension of the complex manager responsibility and ethics in a business or another institution in long-term prospect. The subject will introduce an ethical challenge for the business and management environment. The subject matter will provide a theoretical basis and starting points for responsible thinking, the methodology and the methods of applied managerial responsibility and ethics. The process of ethical decision making is set in the appropriate philosophic frame and understanding its development up to the present. The subject will provide the students with the bases and criteria for responsible ethical behaviour in a company through modern ethical tools that are comparable at the international level. The teaching is aimed at the ability to identify ethical dilemmas, approaches and their application to the practice.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion the student will be able to:
- understands the ethical cause of management failures of Czech and foreign companies,
- is able to explain the long-term importance of personal responsibility of a manager and an entrepreneur from the point of view of the value thinking and ethical decision making,
- is able to describe the position of management and entrepreneurial ethics within the economics and social disciplines,
- is able to explain the basic ethical categories and prospects of management that build confidence,
- identifies ethical dilemmas, differences between responsible and irresponsible behaviour in business decision making and management with regard to its long-term sustainability and society-wide context,
- is able to assess the vision, mission and strategy of a company from the ethical dimension point of view,
- implements ethical principles to a code of ethics of a company,
- critically analyses the system and the implementation of corporate compliance programmes,
- implements ethical principles into the internal corporate regulations and creates them (including the implementation and creation of codes of ethics),
- is able to orient in the sphere of criminal-law impacts and sanctions.

Syllabus

• Lectures
• 1. Economics and ethics, business ethics
• 2. Corporate social responsibility
• 3. Ethical program in an organization, its tools, ethical aspects of multinational corporations
• 4. A code of ethics in an organization, its specification, importance and types
• 5. Topics of codes of ethics Preparation and enforcement of codes of ethics
• 6. Ethics in human resource management
• 7. Unethical and illegal behaviour, abuse of business information and corruption
• 8. Corporate governance and compliance management
• 9. Fiduciary responsibility of members of management and supervisory bodies of companies. Criminal liability of legal entities
• 10. Student's presentation qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company, essays, discussion and critical evaluation
• 11. Student's presentation qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company, essays, discussion and critical evaluation
• 12. Student's presentation qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company, essays, discussion and critical evaluation
• 13. Final test

Literature

required literature
• 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
• Ferrell, O.C., Fraedrich, J., Ferrell, 2014. Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, 10 edition. ed. Cengage Learning, Stamford, CT, USA. ISBN 978-1285423715
• René Schmidpeter, Christina Weidinger (auth.), Christina Weidinger, Franz Fischler, René Schmidpeter (eds.) (2014) Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Business Success through Sustainability [1 ed.]. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. 978-3-642-38752-4,
• Michael K. Shaub, Robert L. Braun (auth.), Steven Mintz (eds.) (2014) Accounting for the Public Interest: Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society [1 ed.]. Advances in Business Ethics Research 4. 978-94-007-7081-2, 978-94-007-7
• SHAW, W.H., 2013. Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases, 8 edition. ed. Cengage Learning, Boston, MA ; Singapore. ISBN 978-1-133-94307-5
• László Zsolnai (ed) (2015) The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management [1 ed.]. Springer International Publishing. 978-3-319-11676-1, 978-3-319-11677-8
• Michael D'heur (ed.) (2015) CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance Sustainable Value Chain Management: Delivering Sustainability Through the Core Business [1 ed.] Springer International Publishing. 978-3-319-12141-3, 978-3-319-12142-0
• Domènec Melé, Martin Schlag (eds.) (2015) Humanism in Economics and Business: Perspectives of the Catholic Social Tradition [1 ed.], Issues in Business Ethics 43. Springer Netherlands. 978-94-017-9703-0, 978-94-017-9704-7

Forms of Teaching

Lecture
Seminar

Teaching Methods

Group Teaching - Competition
Critical Thinking
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity

Student Workload

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Preparation of essay (in Czech)	26
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	36
Preparation for the Final Test	21
Qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company (in Czech)	21
Attendance on Lectures	26
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	26
Total:	156	0

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

Essay 5 %
qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company (in Czech) 5 %
online final test in IS 70 %
active participation in lectures (in Czech) 20 %

Exam conditions

Mid-term grading:

essay – 5 points (5 %)

qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company – 5 points (5 %)

active participation in lectures - 20 points (20 %)

Final grading:

final test – 70 points (70 %)

Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points under following conditions: Mid-term grading: maximum 30% (0-30 points). Final grading: maximum 70% (0-70 points). Classification: 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 students of the full-time form of study are obliged to fulfill the 70% attendance at the seminars. If the attendance is not met, the students will be automatically classified "F".

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

General note: Erasmus.

Teacher's information

Seminars will take place through MS Teams in real time according to a set timetable. Attendance at seminars will be monitored.

Attendance in lessons is defined in a separate internal standard of ITB (Evidence of attendance of students at ITB). It is compulsory, except of the lectures, for full-time students to attend 70 % lesson of the subject in a semester.

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