Business Ethics

Managing values in organizations and in business environment ; global, organizational and personal levels of ethical issues in management.

Introduction to the main themes of Business Ethics in an explicitly multicultural and international context and examining the critical discussions of the scope of CSR in general as well as many specific ethical issues of international business.

1. Basic concepts and logic of the subject; introduction to the idea of company social responsibility.

2. Leading contemporary themes and issues in the subject; Globalisation; Sustainability and sustainable development; Kyoto.

3. Stakeholder theory; the European Social Model and a comparison of North American and European approaches to the subject

4. Leading approaches to moral philosophy which are of relevance to discussions in Business Ethics; comparison of their contrasting implications in relation to selected controversial issues.

5. Critical analysis of the moral dimensions of a range of micro ethical issues that relate to the financial sector in the contemporary period in particular such as: moral hazard, insider trading, usury and extortion, bribery and corruption.

6. Business ethics or ethics in business?

7.Managing values and beliefs in organizations and in global environment

8. Economical Humanism and Competitive Market

9. Social Responsibility and Social Leadership

10. Good Work and Good Business projects

11. Ethical dilemmas and ethical competencies in business

12. Ethics in practice - cases

13. Ethics in global world

14. Business ethics in current financial crises

15. How to fight corruption

Howard Gardner (ed.), Responsibility at Work. San Francisco: Jossey – Bass. 2007.

Tom McEwan, Managing values and Beliefs in Organizations. Harlow: Person Education. 2001

Deirdre McCloskey, Measurement and Meaning in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 2001.

O C. Farrell, Linda Farell, John Fraedrich,, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases Paperback), 26.07.2007 Amazon Co.UK.

Jospeh Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, W. W. Norton, & Company, 2010

Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Economics, 2 Edition, Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, 2010

CRANE A and MATTEN D (2013) 2nd ed, “Business Ethics”, Oxford University Press.

HARTMAN L (2005) 3rd international edition “Perspectives in Business Ethics” Mc Graw Hill, Maidenhead

CRANE A and MATTEN D (2013) 2nd ed, “Business Ethics”, Oxford University Press.

HARTMAN L (2005) 3rd international edition “Perspectives in Business Ethics” Mc Graw Hill, Maidenhead

1.Classroom active participation (including one presentation(essay) during the course)

Final test („open question” and „open book”).(Dr. T. Ochinowski)

2.Individual essay of 2000-2500 words (Prof. P. O'Sullivan)