VŠTE:S_BSE Business Ethics - Course Information
S_BSE Business Ethics
Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovicewinter 2021
- 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)
Ing. Iveta Kmecová, PhD. (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: Tue 11:25–12:55 N004, 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
- Students will be able to assess ethical dilemmas in business and society. They will be able to analyze problems and introduce ethical response. They will be able to update ethical codex in organizations.
- Learning outcomes
- After successful completion student will be able to:
- Identify and summarize important ideas of moral philosophers throughout the history;
- identify and describe current ethical dilemmas in business;
- provide evidence supporting a moral response;
- construct argument based on revealed personal moral principles and academic research;
- discuss moral dilemma and introduce more moral responses; - Syllabus
- Students will be provided a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning the ethical issues arising from business (resources, production management, marketing, consumption, sustainability etc.). 1st lesson: Demands for obtaining the credit, basic principles of student’s independent work, Introduction to the discipline
- 2nd lesson: Ethical Theory and Business Practice
- 3rd lesson: Ethical culture, norms and values of the company 4th lesson: Western philosophical theories about ethics (Aristotle, virtues, Theory of Justice)
- 5th lesson: Government and Market mechanism (Invisible hand, Money, Crises)
- 6th lesson: Labor market (hiring, compensation, discrimination)
- 7th lesson: Corporations and Society (customer complaints, advertising ethics, ENRON, Kickbacks, Bribes, Rent-seeking)
- 8th lesson: Corporations and the Environment
- 9th lesson: International, religious and other factors 10th lesson: Presentation of essays, discussion and critical evaluation 11th lesson: Presentation of essays, discussion and critical evaluation 12th lesson: Presentation of essays, discussion and critical evaluation 13th lesson: Final test
- Literature
- required 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
- CAHA, Zdeněk and Jan URBAN. A Code of Ethics as an Organizational Management Tool and its Use in the Czech Republic. first. Lüdenscheid, Germany: RAM-Verlag, 2017, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-942303-50-7. info
- recommended literature
- 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
- SHAW, W.H., 2013. Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases, 8 edition. ed. Cengage Learning, Boston, MA ; Singapore. ISBN 978-1-133-94307-5
- 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,
- not specified
- 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
- 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
- Forms of Teaching
- Lecture
Seminar - Teaching Methods
- Group Teaching - Competition
Group Teaching - Cooperation
Critical Thinking
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity
- Student Workload
Activities Number of Hours of Study Workload Daily Study Combined Study Preparation for the Mid-term Test 30 Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial 10 Preparation for the Final Test 36 seminar work (in Czech) 28 Attendance on Lectures 26 Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion 26 Total: 156 0 - Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
- Test – final 70 %
Essay 30 % - Exam conditions
- Demonstrate the capability for rational thought and critical thinking in ethical values. Meet other qualitative and quantitative demands. Test: maximum 40 %. (minimum 25 %) Essay: maximum 60 %. Grading of the course: Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points: 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. In case of FX the final test can be repeated.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
General note: Erasmus.
- Enrolment Statistics (winter 2021, recent)
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