Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 16 lecture hours |
Seminars / Tutorials | 4 tutorials |
Assessment
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
* Demonstrate an understanding of theories of ethics;
* Analyse business scenarios by applying ethical theories;
* Critically evaluate the ethical basis of business activity;
* Analyse the role of business in society;
* Critically reflect on ethical cnduct of individuals in business.
Aims
This module is conceived as an optional module primarily directed at students following degree schemes in Business and Management and cognate subjects. It will complement core introductory modules by encouraging students to critically reflect on the relationship between ethics and business practice and to offer some conceptual frameworks that will assist such reflection. This will add another dimension to the existing ethical content of Business and Management programmes. Ethical issues are implicit in the content of core modules, and explicitly addressed at the minimum level consistent with the QAA benchmark. This introductory module has been designed to be compatible with future development of embedded ethics content by allowing deeper engagement with the issues of ethical expectations and ethics theories in a broad business context.
Brief description
The aim of this module is to help students develop their own understanding of what constitutes ethical business practice. Students will be encouraged to interrogate their own ethical presuppositions and also to challenge some dominant ethical perspectives that they may encounter within business communities.
Content
- Why should business bother about ethics?
- Identifying instrumental stakeholders
- Some contrasting responses that businesses might adopt towards ethics
- Differentiating normative responsibilities from instrumental responsibilities
- The power of business
- Ethical business conduct as maximising wellbeing
- Rights in relation to business
- Ethics as observing the contractual obligations that define business relationships
- Business ethics and the concept of duty
- Virtue in business
- Considering the purpose of business
- Business and the creation of the shareholder wealth
- Corporate social responsibility
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | |
Communication | Students will be expected to communicate effectively using a variety of media and reporting formats used in business. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be expected to develop their own learning and performance, and demonstrate self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour in all aspects of the module. |
Information Technology | Students will utilize information technology and internet resouces in preparing presentations and in personal study. |
Personal Development and Career planning | The module developes personal and interpersonal skills including independence, self awareness and critical thought. |
Problem solving | The module will develop the skills of identifying and refining problems. Problem solving skills will be developed through the negotiation inherent in team work (group presentation). |
Research skills | Students should be able to exercise appropriate judgement in the location, extraction and presentation of information, methods or resources. |
Subject Specific Skills | The module will develop critical reflection on the relationship between ethics, business practice and the individual. |
Team work | Students will work in groups in tutorials and in preparing a poster presentation. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4