Course Details

Ethics in Business

Academic Year 2024/25

CZ052 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to ethics. Importance of ethics. The concept and benefits of ethics. Management and business ethics. Ethics and morality. 2. The basic elements of ethical theories. Traditional and modern concept. History of ethics. Man and ethics. 3. Historical-developmental changes of ethics, important ethical concepts and personalities, aim for present. 4. Ethics in Modern Ages. Relativism, material ethical values, positivism, a new concept of ethics. Contemporary ethical discourses. 5. Transformation of ethics into business. Economic pragmatism, utilitarism, liberalism and neoliberalism. 6. Introduction into ethics of management. Ethics of direction and accountability. Ethical decision-making process. 7. Relation between ethics and business. Personal morality and corporate ethics, ethical-professional personality character. 8. Manager and ethics - perspectives and changes. Development of a manager personality. Dichotomy in managerial praxis. 9. Implementation of ethics, the nature and importance. Moral development of company. Public relations. 10. Integrating of ethics into the corporate culture. The role of ethics in company development strategy. Social firm responsibility. 11. Ethics in business enterprise management. Ethics of labor relations in the company. Moral culture of contemporary businessman. 12. Ethical codex, examples. Ethical auditing of a firm. Non-ethical examples in behaviour, prevention and its solution. 13. Self-assessment exercise in the area of ethics and management. Ethical-social katechism.