Course detail

Ethics in Business

FAST-CZ52Acad. year: 2011/2012

Development of ethics in philosophy, new conceptions of ethics, ethics and morality, social events and ethics, relations between ethics, economis and business, economic pragmatism, utilitarism, liberalism, introduce to management of ethics, manager and ethics, firm strategy and ethics, ethics in firm philosophy, ethics in firm culture.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge of ethic principles and their connections with management. Understanding of human change in firm culture, manager´s personality and firm strategy.

Prerequisites

The subject follows to knowledge gained in the course of secondary education, therefore no other technical information is needed.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Development of ethics in philosophy, developmental overview.
2. Concept of ethics. Traditional and modern conceptions.
3. Metamorphosis of the relations between ethics and business. Positivism, existentialism and materialism.
4. Corporate culture and identity, importance of ethics in management.
5. Importance of ethics, psychology and sociology for the economic way of thinking.
6. Relations between ethics, economics and business.
7. Directions in ethics: Economic pragmatism, utilitarianism, liberalism and neoliberalism.
8. Ethics in management in business: fundamentals and importance.
9. The manager and ethics - perspectives and changes.
10. Corporate strategy and ethics, ethics as a strategy?
11. Philosophical aspects of ethics, contemporary philosophy of business.
12. Modernism and postmodernism in ethics: corporate strategy.
13. Self-assessment exercise in the area of ethics and management.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Orientation in subject, ability to aplicate of knowledge, information and practises in professional and personal life.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ARZENBACHER, Arno: Úvod do etiky. Praha, Academia, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0953-1.
LINDR, Jaroslav: Etika v podnikání. M01 Nástin etiky, M02 Etická firemní strategie, M03 Implementace etiky. Brno: FAST, 2007. (CS)

Recommended reading

BEDRNOVÁ, Eva a NOVÝ, Ivan: Psychologie a sociologie řízení. Praha, Management Press, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7261-169-0.
BRÁZDOVÁ, Dagmar: Zásady společenského chování. Praha: Road, 1991. ISBN 80-85385-09-0.
KÁRNÍKOVÁ, Jitka: Etika v podnikání a řídící práci. Praha, VŠE, 1997. ISBN 80-7079-524-7.
KOHOUTEK, Rudolf a ŠTĚPANÍK, Jaroslav: Psychologie práce a řízení. Brno: Cerm, 2000. ISBN 80-214-1552-5.
RIEGEL, Karel: Etika a psychologie v podnikání. Praha, Karolinum, 2006. ISBN 80-246-1118-X.
SINGER, Peter: Practical ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
ŠAFRÁNKOVÁ, Jana: Sociologie pro techniky. Praha: ČVUT, 1992. ISBN 80-01-00791-X. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer