Ethics in Management 1155-12-M22-0-EtMan
The idea of the lecture arises as an ethical response to some recent business and management scandals involving Enron, the Watergate affair, the Rywin affair, the Gambling scandal, the Shipyard-gate scandal etc., which have raised loud cries for more effective teaching of business ethics and management ethics in our business schools and in a number of management training programmes. One of the most important aims of the lecture is to make students aware of the fact that moral problems in business and management are multidimensional and complicated. Their identification and resolution are really hard to conduct, if soluble at all. Moral problems with business and management usually lie much deeper than teaching all managers to be ethical in the same way. The problems are a direct reflection of deep-rooted and chronic problems embedded in our governance and people-management systems and practices. As Elliot Jaques in his Ethics for Management maintains, what I share and disseminate my students, “These problems include weak and nonarticulated accountabilities and authorities, lack of long-term ownership concern in shareholders and elected boards, compensation systems that alienate people and require selfish and even corrupt behaviors if you are to get ahead, and so on”.
Each class is divided into two parts. The first one is a lecturer’s presentation. The second part belongs to the students, who prepare independently and deliver their own presentations on the topics, which they choose from the list providing by the lecturer (see below). The methods using in class are: providing, multimedia presentations and discussion.
The lecturer focuses students’ attention on the following list of elementary ethical concepts and issues:
- The Main Ethical concepts – the distinction between ethics and morals
• morality
• ethics
• moral subject
• moral value → countervalue
• moral norm (principle)
• moral judgement
• moral sanction
• ethical system
• ethical code
- Ethical value systems and business or ethical issues in business and management (the nature of ethics and moral problems in management)
- Why ethics in management?
- What ethics in management is?
- General issues in ethics → What ethics as such is?
- The difference between ethics and morality
- The division (structure) of ethics
- Elementary ethical theories
- The problems traditionally considered in ethical discourse
- The nature of an academic ethics → towards classical ethical normative theories
- Traditional axionormative positions
- The ambit of ethics in management
- A short history of business ethics
- What ethics for (what) business?
- Professional (occupational) ethics on the example of the ethics for managers
- Moral aspects of the activity and the fair rights of employees
- Suppliers and Distributors in the light of the ethics of management
- The category of loyal customers
- Ethical and practical decision models
- Why should managers behave ethically?
- The values of trust and reputation in management
- The theory of Social Corporate Responsibility (CSR)
The list of some particular problems and issues, characteristic of ethics in management, which the students are obliged to prepare, present and discuss during the class are:
- Moral Values of Business Enterprise
- The System of Moral Principles in an Ethical Code of
a chosen Company
- Dimensions of CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)
- Creating an ETHICAL CULTURE in a Globalized Environment
- Business Ethics in a Global World on Example of
a chosen Country or Region
- Business Ethics in China: Challenges and Opportunities
- Applying Ecosystem Principles to Business Ethics
- The System of Moral Principles in an Ethical Code of a chosen Company or Corporation
- The Limits of MORAL COMPROMISE in Business Practices
- Ethical Attitudes of Business Executives
- Differences and Challenges Due to Religion: The Influence of Confucianism or Buddhism or Hinduism or Christianity on Business-ethical Decision-making
- Workplace Issues: labour and employment practices, monitoring, work/life balance, etc.
- PRODUCT and BRAND: consumer safety, reputation, intellectual property, and strategic marketing
- CORPORATE WRONGDOING: corruption, bribery, scandals, whistleblowing, etc.
- Moral Aspects of TAX DODGES
- Ethics in Business – Real Practice or Hypocrisy
- Controversies over LOBBYING
- Professional Ethics: the behaviour of managers and and employees in matters such as loyalty, honesty, truthfulness, etc.
- The Risks of a Free Market: inequality of income, wealth and market power
- Moral Implications of Monopoly Capitalism
- The CHILD LABOUR: an absolute necessity or unethical practices?
- Non-Profit Ethics
- The Bad Side of CONSUMERISM
- Use of ANIMALS in Product Testing
- The SELLING of ADDICTIVE PRODUCTS e.g. tobacco
- Trading with Repressive Regimes
- Treatment of CUSTOMERS – e.g. honouring the spirit as well as the letter of the law with respect to warranties and after sales service
- The Number and Proportion of WOMEN and ETHINIC MINORITY People in Senior Positions
- Employment of DISABLED PEOPLE
- Violation of the Basic Rights of Workers
- MOBBING in the Workplace
- Pricing Lack of Clarity in Pricing
- DUMPING – selling at a loss to increase market share and destroy competition in order to subsequently raise prices
- HIGH-PRESSURE SELLING – especially in relation to groups such as the elderly
- Deceptive ADVERTISING
- Irresponsible Issue of CREDIT CARDS and the Irresponsible Raising of Credit Limits
- Unethical Practices in Market Research and Competitor Intelligence (information)
- Unethical Practices Relating to Products – Examples:
- Selling Goods Abroad Which are Banned at Home
- Unsafe Products
- Wasteful and Unnecessary Packaging
Deception on Size and Content of some Offered Products.
W cyklu 2021/22L:
The idea of the lecture arises as an ethical response to some recent business and management scandals involving Enron, the Watergate affair, the Rywin affair, the Gambling scandal, the Shipyard-gate scandal etc., which have raised loud cries for more effective teaching of business ethics and management ethics in our business schools and in a number of management training programmes. One of the most important aims of the lecture is to make students aware of the fact that moral problems in business and management are multidimensional and complicated. Their identification and resolution are really hard to conduct, if soluble at all. Moral problems with business and management usually lie much deeper than teaching all managers to be ethical in the same way. The problems are a direct reflection of deep-rooted and chronic problems embedded in our governance and people-management systems and practices. As Elliot Jaques in his Ethics for Management maintains, what I share and disseminate my students, “These problems include weak and nonarticulated accountabilities and authorities, lack of long-term ownership concern in shareholders and elected boards, compensation systems that alienate people and require selfish and even corrupt behaviors if you are to get ahead, and so on”. |
W cyklu 2022/23L:
The idea of the lecture arises as an ethical response to some recent business and management scandals involving Enron, the Watergate affair, the Rywin affair, the Gambling scandal, the Shipyard-gate scandal etc., which have raised loud cries for more effective teaching of business ethics and management ethics in our business schools and in a number of management training programmes. One of the most important aims of the lecture is to make students aware of the fact that moral problems in business and management are multidimensional and complicated. Their identification and resolution are really hard to conduct, if soluble at all. Moral problems with business and management usually lie much deeper than teaching all managers to be ethical in the same way. The problems are a direct reflection of deep-rooted and chronic problems embedded in our governance and people-management systems and practices. As Elliot Jaques in his Ethics for Management maintains, what I share and disseminate my students, “These problems include weak and nonarticulated accountabilities and authorities, lack of long-term ownership concern in shareholders and elected boards, compensation systems that alienate people and require selfish and even corrupt behaviors if you are to get ahead, and so on”. |
W cyklu 2023/24L:
The idea of the lecture arises as an ethical response to some recent business and management scandals involving Enron, the Watergate affair, the Rywin affair, the Gambling scandal, the Shipyard-gate scandal etc., which have raised loud cries for more effective teaching of business ethics and management ethics in our business schools and in a number of management training programmes. One of the most important aims of the lecture is to make students aware of the fact that moral problems in business and management are multidimensional and complicated. Their identification and resolution are really hard to conduct, if soluble at all. Moral problems with business and management usually lie much deeper than teaching all managers to be ethical in the same way. The problems are a direct reflection of deep-rooted and chronic problems embedded in our governance and people-management systems and practices. As Elliot Jaques in his Ethics for Management maintains, what I share and disseminate my students, “These problems include weak and nonarticulated accountabilities and authorities, lack of long-term ownership concern in shareholders and elected boards, compensation systems that alienate people and require selfish and even corrupt behaviors if you are to get ahead, and so on”. |
Całkowity nakład pracy studenta
Efekty uczenia się - wiedza
Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności
Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne
Metody dydaktyczne
Metody dydaktyczne podające
- wykład informacyjny (konwencjonalny)
- wykład problemowy
Metody dydaktyczne poszukujące
- giełda pomysłów
- ćwiczeniowa
- referatu
- studium przypadku
Wymagania wstępne
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Kryteria oceniania
Paper – W01, W02
Presentations – U01, U02
Activity – K01, K02
Praktyki zawodowe
The professional practices are not foreseen in this case.
Literatura
Elementary literature
- Debbie M. Thorne, O. C. Ferrell, Linda Ferrell, Business & society: a strategic approach to social responsibility and ethics, Mason, OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, cop. 2011.
- John R. Boatright, Ethics in finance, Malden [etc.]: Blackwell Publishing, cop. 2008.
- Business ethics as practice: representation, reflexivity and performance, ed. by Chris Carter [et al.], Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, cop. 2007.
- Business Ethics: a european review, Oxford: Blackwell Publ., 1992.
Supplementary literature
- Gabriel Eweje, Martin Perry (eds.), Business & Sustainability: Concepts, Strategies and Changes, vol. 3 z serii Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011.
- William Sun, Celine Louche, Roland Perez (eds.), Finance and Sustainability: Towards a New Paradigm? A Post-crisis Agenda, vol. 2, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011.
- William Sun, Jim Stewart, David J. Pollard (eds.), Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, vol. 1, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010.
- Working across cultures: ethical perspectives for intercultural management, ed. by Heiko Lange, Albert Löhr and Horst Steinmann, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
- D. MacCABE, J.M. DUKERICH (1993), Values and Moral Dilemmas; A Cross Cultural Comparison, „Business Ethics Quarterly” 3.
- Norman BARRY (1991), The Morality of Business Enterprise, The David Hume Institute, Aberdeen University Press.
- Thomas DONALDSON, Patricia H. WERHANE (1983), Ethical Issues in Business. A Philosophical Approach, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
- Barbara MAZUR (2006), Introduction to International Business. A Cultural Approach to Management, the University of Finance and Management in Białystok, Białystok.
W cyklu 2021/22L:
- Debbie M. Thorne, O. C. Ferrell, Linda Ferrell, Business & society: a strategic approach to social responsibility and ethics, Mason, OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, cop. 2011. |
W cyklu 2022/23L:
- Debbie M. Thorne, O. C. Ferrell, Linda Ferrell, Business & society: a strategic approach to social responsibility and ethics, Mason, OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, cop. 2011. |
W cyklu 2023/24L:
- Debbie M. Thorne, O. C. Ferrell, Linda Ferrell, Business & society: a strategic approach to social responsibility and ethics, Mason, OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, cop. 2011. |
Uwagi
W cyklu 2021/22L:
No additional remarks. |
W cyklu 2022/23L:
No additional remarks. |
W cyklu 2023/24L:
No additional remarks. |
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