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Ethics in Business
FAST-NZB012Acad. year: 2022/2023
Ethics, ethical terminology, business ethics, ethics and morality, relationships between ethics, economy and philosophy, historical changes of ethics, overview of basic ethical courses and paradigms, personalities in history of ethics, contribution of ethical categories to life, ethical inspiration for economy, new conceptions of ethics, social events and ethics, relationship between ethics and business, economic pragmatism, utilitarianism and liberalism, introduction to ethics of management, firm strategy and ethics, ethical management, ethical codex, ethical auditing, moral personality development, ethics in firm culture, ethical dilemmas in manager's activities, non-ethical examples in behaviour, corruption, lobbying, self-experienced training in ethics, implementation of ethics to firms.
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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.
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Basic literature
LINDR, Jaroslav. Etika v podnikání. M01 Nástin etiky. Brno: FAST, studijní opory. 2007. 48 s. (CS)
LINDR, Jaroslav. Etika v podnikání. M03 Implementace etiky. Brno: FAST, studijní opory. 2007. 48 s. (CS)
LINDR, Jaroslav. Etika v podnikání. M02 Etická firemní strategie. Brno: FAST, studijní opory. 2007. 48 s. (CS)
LUKNIČ, Arnold Steve. Etika - štvrtý rozmer podnikania. Trenčín: SAP. 1994. ISBN 80-85665-30-1. (SK)
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- Programme NPC-GK Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPC-MI Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPC-SIE Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPC-SIK Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
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