UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI (University of Warsaw)
WYDZIAŁ ZARZĄDZANIA (Faculty of Management)
KARTA PRZEDMIOTU (Syllabus)
Kod przedmiotu w USOS (course cod of USOS)
2600-0550211010
Kod przedmiotu SOCRATES
(course cod of SOCRATES)
04000
Nazwa przedmiotu (cours title)
BUSINESS ETHICS
Typ przedmiotu (type of course)
Obligatory
Poziom przedmiotu (level of course)
Middle and advanced
Rok studiów, semestr (year of study, semester)
I/1
ECTS (number of credits)
2
Metody nauczania (teaching methods)
Lectures and interactive class discussions; case studies
An interactive course where the listeners can actively participate in the lecture. They analyze various cases and present
their results in an essay.
English
Język wykładowy przedmiotu (language of
instruction)
Imię i nazwisko wykładowcy (name of lecturer)
Patrick O’SULLIVAN, Tomasz OCHINOWSKI
Wymagania wstępne (prerequisites)
General skills and knowledge regarding ethics
Cele przedmiotu (objectives of the course, preferably
expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences)
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course the students should have developed a
critical awareness regarding many of the moral issues which
arise in international business today and be able to form reasoned judgements about he best ways to tackle these. The
course does not aim to transmit any particular messages or
ready-made solutions to moral dilemmas in business but only
to make students aware of the issues and to encourage them to
reflect critically on them drawing on the resources of moral
philosophy.
The main goals of the lecture is to clarify two themes: (1) the
relationship between ethics and effectiveness in business and
corporations (2) the role of ethics as one of the crucial social
competencies of managers.(3) presentation of various approaches to moral dilemma in business and world.
Skrócony opis przedmiotu (brief course description)
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. In
specific the main goals of the lecture is to clarify two themes:
(1) the relationship between ethics and effectiveness in business and corporations (2) the role of ethics as one of the cru-
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cial social competencies of managers.(3) presentation of various approaches to moral dilemma in business and world.
Pełny opis przedmiotu (full course description)
Part I
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Basic concepts and logic of the subject; introduction to the idea of company social responsibility.
Leading contemporary themes and issues in the
subject; Globalisation; Sustainability and sustainable development; Kyoto.
Stakeholder theory; the European Social Model
and a comparison of North American and European approaches to the subject
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.
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.
Critical analysis of the moral dimensions of a
range of other micro ethical issues such as whistleblowing, ethics of marketing
Part II
1. Business ethics or ethics in business?
2. Managing values and beliefs in organizations and in global
environment
3. Economical Humanism and Competitive Market
4. Social Responsibility and Social Leadership
5. Good Work and Good Business projects
6. Ethical dilemmas and ethical competencies in business
7. Ethics in practice - cases
8. Ethics in global world
9..Business ethics in current financial crises
Metody oceny (assessment methods)
Literatura (bibliography)
Individual essay of 2000-2500 words,
Classroom active participation, class presentation (essay),
Final written exam („open question” and „open book”).
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
Howard Gardner (ed.), Responsibility at Work. San Francisco: Jossey – Bass. 2007.
Tom McEwan, Managing values and Beliefs in Organizations.
Harlow: Person Education. 2001
David Hay, Quality of life – Quality of Management (materials for students) Warsaw: 2005.
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
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