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Terminated in academic year 2013/2014

Business Ethics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 115-0503/01
Abbreviation BE
Course title Business Ethics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator prof. PhDr. Jiří Bláha, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Terms definition (ethic, business ethic, specificity of business ethic)
- Relation between ethic and economy, justice.
- Resources of ethical thought.
2. Fundamental ethic categories and terms – values, value orientation, good and evil, moral norms.
- Manager’s ethical values.
- Value’s influence on behavior.
- Ethical values ​​of managers.
- Values of successful managers.
3. Factors influencing ethical behavior. Individual, social and organizational factors. Organizational culture.
- Whistleblowing. Warring on unethical acting in organization.
Ethical decision making – fundamental models.
4. Corporate social responsibility and manager‘s responsibility.
- Factors influencing individual and organizational responsibility. Corporate governance.
5. International business ethics. Ethic in global corporations.
- Reset of culture differences.
6. Instruments of ethical behavior expanse in an organization.
- Code of conduct, ethical training, stakeholders, communication, role of ombudsman, values in firm’s vision.
7. Skills important to an ethical behavior.
- Possibilities and bounds of ethical behavior‘s increasing.

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.


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