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Business Ethics

Summary

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the overall issues of ethics in its applied form. Guides students from the theoretical foundations of the field of ethics, through a brief outline of the development of this field to the applied form of ethics. Introduces students to basic ethical categories. The main task of the course is to show the practical use of ethics in economic practice and the possible consequences of ethical or unethical behavior in the organization. The aim of the course is the development of ethical thinking and understanding of ethical issues and their interrelationships in ethics, especially business ethics. We understand business ethics not only at the individual and local level, but also at the global level with all the consequences associated with it. The overall significance of the course is in the connection of theory with the practical use of acquired knowledge in the economic practice of organizations.

Literature

BALI, Shivani; AGGARWAL, Sugandha and SHARMA, Sunil. Industry 4.0 technologies for business excellence: frameworks, practices, and applications. Demystifying technologies for computational excellence: moving towards society 5.0. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. ISBN 978-0-367-69117-2.
COLLINS, Denis. Business Ethics. Best Practices for Designing and Managign Ethical Organizations. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5063-8805-2 .
SCALET, Steven. Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2019. ISBN 978-1-138-58096-1 .

Advised literature

CHROUST, Gerhard; DOUCEK, Petr and OŠKRDAL, Václav. IDIMT-2022: Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic: 30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks: Sept. 7-9, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic. Linz: Trauner, 2022. ISBN 978-3-99113-758-0.
FERELL, O. C.; FRAEDRICH, John and FERREL, Linda. Business Ethics. Ethical Decision Making and Cases. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2019. ISBN 978-1-337-61443-6 .
MELÉ CARNÉ, Domènec. Business Ethics in Action: managing human excellence in organizations. 2nd ed. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-137-60917-5.


Language of instruction angličtina, angličtina, angličtina, angličtina
Code 115-0503
Abbreviation BE
Course title Business Ethics
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. ThDr. Lucjan Klimsza, Ph.D., MBA