Business Ethics

Content

Objective

This course aims to teach fundamental notions of ethics and possible ethical problems in different areas of an enterprise and their solutions.

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction to ethics and fundamental notions
Week 2: Ethical theories in philosophy
Week 3: Sociology of morality
Week 4: Fundamental notions of moral psychology
Week 5: Theories of moral psychology
Week 6: Ethical blindness
Week 7: Mid-term exam
Week 8: Introduction to business ethics
Week 9: Ethical problems in companies
Week 10: Social responsibility
Week 11: Ethical decision-making and leadership
Week 12: Evaluation of an ethics program
Week 13: Legal regulations
Week 14 : The homework presentations

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to know approaches to ethics in the different fields of human sciences.
2. Students will be able to know the problems and ethical dilemmas in companies.
3. Students will be able to develop the capacity to solve ethical problems and make an ethical decision in companies.
4. Students will be able to create an effective ethics program in companies.
5. Students will be able to know the benefits and the profits of a strategy appropriate to the codes of ethics for a company.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Lecturing, presentations and projects

References

Armstrong, Walter (2008). Moral Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Bloom, P. (2013). Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil. Penguin: New York.
• Brenkert, G. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics. Oxford: UK.
• Darwall, S. (1998). Philosophical Ethics. Westview: Oxford.
• Drumwright, M. & Murphy, P. (2004). How Advertising Practitioners View Ethics : Moral Muteness, Moral Myopia, and Moral Imagination, Journal of Advertising. 33: 2
• Hitlin, S & Vaisey, S. (eds) (2010). Handbook of the Sociology of Moralitiy. Springer: New York.
• Luetge, C. (2013). Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer: New York.
• Palazzo, G. (20 12). Ethical Blindness, Journal of Business Ethics, 109 / 3.

Assessment System

ECTS