BA201 – Ethics & Social Responsibility
Bachelor of Science in Computing and Business Technologies
Core Course
BA201 – Ethics & Social Responsibility
Course Unit Code: BA201
Type Of Unit: Core
Level of Course Unit: First cycle
Year of Study: Second year
Semester: Third
Number of ECTS Credits: 7.5
Class Contact Hours: 36
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites
None
Course Objectives
To sensitize students to the ethical dimensions of business and to train them to identify ethical dilemmas and resolve them based on ethical principles and moral theory. The course will examine the ethical and social responsibility of business from different perspectives) and will introduce tools of ethical analysis of management decisions involving difficult choices between right and right and wrong and wrong.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify ethical dilemmas in business.
- Identify factors that affect decisions/ dilemma resolutions.
- Analyze ethical dilemmas based on ethical principles and resolve them in a defensible direction.
- Evaluate the “morality” of others’ decisions, again based on alternative moral theories.
- Recognize and apply personal and professional codes of ethics.
Course Content
Course Features
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, case method, class discussion, syndicate group work, class presentations, role-play, ethical dilemma simulation.
Assessment methods and criteria
20% Class participation (including written class quiz)
80% In-class examination
Language of Instruction
English
Readings
Recommended or required reading
1. Snoeyenbos M, R Almeder, I Humber (Eds) “Business Ethics” 3rd edition, Prometheus books NY 2001
2. Velasquez M G, “Business Ethics: Concepts and Issues” Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, NJ 2002
3. Corporate Governance and Ethics by Z Rezaee (2008)
4. Accounting Ethics by Ronald Duska, Brenda Shay Duska and Julie Anne Ragatz (Apr 18, 2011)
5. Friedman M “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits”
6. Arrow K “Social Responsibility and Economics Efficiency” Sen, Amarya “Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense” Almeder R. “Morality and Market Place”
7. Stone, C “Why the Law Can’t Do It?”
8. Waddock S & Smith N “Corporate Responsibility Audit: Doing Well and Doing Good”
9. Sloan Management Review, Winter 2000
10. Porter M “Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility”
11. Harvard Business Review, December 1, 2006
12. Sheila Bonini, Timothy M. Koller, and Philip H. Mirvis Valuing social responsibility programs. Do they create financial value? Corporate Finance Practice, July 2009
Video:
“Corporate Social Responsibility: from principles to profit” BBC PBS Video “Bigger than Enron”
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