Course Details
Ethics in Business
Academic Year 2025/26
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. Concept and benefits of ethics. Managerial and business ethics. Ethics and morality.
- 2. Basic elements of ethical theories. Traditional and modern concept. Introduction to history of ethics. Human being and ethics.
- 3. Historical-developmental changes of ethics, important ethical courses and personalities, heritage for nowadays.
- 4. Ethics in Modern Ages. Relativism, material ethics of values, positivism, new concepts of ethics. Contemporary ethical discourses.
- 5. Transformation of ethics to business. Economic pragmatism, utilitarianism, liberalism and neoliberalism.
- 6. Introduction to ethics of management. Ethics of direction and accountability. Ethical decision-making process.
- 7. Relationship between ethics and business. Personal morality and firm values, ethical-professional manager's profile.
- 8. Manager and ethics - perspectives and changes. Moral development of a manager's personality. Dichotomy in managerial praxis.
- 9. Ethics implementation, nature and importance. Moral firm development. Public relations.
- 10. Integration of ethics to firm culture. Role of ethics in firm development strategy. Corporate social responsibility.
- 11. Ethics in firm management activity. Ethics of work relations in firm. Moral culture of contemporary businessman.
- 12. Ethical codex, examples. Ethical firm auditing. Non-ethical examples in behaviour, prevention and their solution.
- 13. Self-assessment exercise in the area of ethics. Ethical-social catechism.