VŠTE:NE_SEP Social responsibility and busi - Course Information

NE_SEP Social responsibility and business ethics

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Miluše Balková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. et doc. PaedDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Caha, Ph.D., MBA, MSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Ing. Jan Urban, CSc. (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

Timetable of Seminar Groups

NE_SEP/NE3: Sat 9. 10. 14:50–16:20 B2, 16:30–18:00 B2, Sat 13. 11. 14:50–16:20 B2, 16:30–18:00 B2, Z. Caha, J. Urban
NE_SEP/P01: Fri 9:40–11:10 N121, M. Balková, J. Urban

Prerequisites

Not required.

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

• Business Administration (programme VŠTE, N_PE) (2)

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 a compliance management.
• 12. Fiduciary responsibility of members of company management and control bodies.
• 13. Criminal liability of legal persons.

Literature

required literature
• CAHA, Z. a J. URBAN, 2017. Etické řízení organizace. Od etického kodexu k etickému řízení. Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag. ISBN 978-3- 942303-53-8.
• SEKNIČKA, P. a A. PUTNOVÁ, 2016. Etika v podnikání a hodnoty trhu. Praha: Grada. ISBN 978-80-247-5545-8.

recommended literature
• URBAN, J., 2013. Řízení lidí v organizaci: Personální rozměr managementu. 2. rozš. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 978-80-7357- 925-8.
• VÍTEK, J., 2012. Odpovědnost statutárních orgánů obchodních společností. Praha: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 978-80-7357-862-6.

Forms of Teaching

Lecture
Tutorial

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

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Course test	15	15
Preparation for Lectures	13
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial		31
Preparation for the Final Test	23	23
Závěrečný test (in Czech)	1	1
Attendance on Lectures	26
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion		8
Total:	78	78

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

Test – final 70 %
Partial tasks 30 %

Exam conditions

For successful completion of the course it is necessary to achieve at least 70 % of the course and final test together under the conditions specified below. In the course test, students can get up to 30 points, i.e. 30 %. In the final test, students can get up to 70 points, i.e. 70 %. Grading for the course, i.e. points for the final test (70 - 0) + points for the course test (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.

Course test:

essay (2 Standard page) – 15 % (i.e. 15 points)

Analysis - code of ethics - 10 % (i.e. 10 points)

survey - 5 % (i.e. 5 points)

Final test:

Final test - 70 % (i.e. 70 points)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

Lectures will be pre-recorded and saved in the VSTE IS where it will be available, students will be able to play them anytime.

Attendance in the course is defined in a separate VSTE internal standard (Evidence of student attendance at VSTE) for all forms of study. Students in full-time form of study are obliged to attend at least 70 % of the seminars.

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