S_BSE Business Ethics

Vysoká škola technická a ekonomická v Českých Budějovicích
léto 2021
Rozsah
2/2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. et doc. PaedDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Caha, Ph.D., MBA, MSc. (cvičící)
Garance
doc. et doc. PaedDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Caha, Ph.D., MBA, MSc.
Katedra řízení lidských zdrojů – Ústav podnikové strategie – Rektor – Vysoká škola technická a ekonomická v Českých Budějovicích
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra řízení lidských zdrojů – Ústav podnikové strategie – Rektor – Vysoká škola technická a ekonomická v Českých Budějovicích
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
S_BSE/S01: Pá 11:25–12:55 D617, Z. Caha
Předpoklady
OBOR ( CAP )
English Communication Skill, rational thinking, knowledge of academic writing and citation style.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu opírající se o výstupy z učení
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.
Výstupy z učení
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.
Osnova
  • 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
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • 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.
    doporučená literatura
  • 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
Organizační formy výuky
přednáška
seminář
Komplexní výukové metody
skupinová výuka - kompetice
kritické myšlení
samostatná práce – individuální nebo individualizovaná činnost
Studijní zátěž
AktivitaPočet hodin za semestr
Prezenční formaKombinovaná forma
Preparation of essay26 
Příprava na seminář, cvičení, tutoriál36 
Příprava na závěrečný test21 
Qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company21 
Účast na přednáškách26 
Účast na semináři/cvičeních/tutoriálu/exkurzi26 
Celkem:1560
Metody hodnocení a jejich poměr
esej 5 %
qualitative analysis of the code of the selected company 5 %
online final test in IS 70 %
active participation in lectures 20 %
Podmínky testu
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".

Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
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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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích zima 2015, léto 2016, zima 2016, léto 2017, zima 2017, léto 2018, zima 2018, léto 2019, zima 2019, léto 2020, zima 2021, léto 2022, zima 2022, léto 2023, zima 2023, léto 2024, zima 2024.