Business ethics and sustainable development

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Management

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Instructors

Boguslavskaya, Svetlana B.

Глебова Софья Валерьевна

Ivanova, Ekaterina

Pavlovskaya, Svetlana V.

Sazhina, Aleksandra

Storchevoy, Maxim

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course provides contemporary business ethics and CSR knowledge and skills which is required by every manager:•Good knowledge of basic ethical theory (utilitarianism, deontology) as well as CSR and sustainability concepts and ability to apply it to various business dilemmas. •Understanding of psychological and situational reasons for unethical decisions and ability to work with these factors in practice•Ability to design and use of mechanisms of managing ethics in the market (competition, state and self-regulation) and in the company (compliance systems and sustainability management).

Learning Objectives

• To argue about vital ethical issues using sound theory and strong logic instead of emotions and conventional moral.
• To resist from making an error in a situation of ethical choice and persuading others from making it.
• To explain any observable behavior of businessmen and managers in real situations of ethical choice.
• To manage ethics and sustainable development in a company using modern concepts and instruments (designing ethical codes, measurement and management systems for ethical conduct, preparing social reports)

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role of business ethics

Course Contents

• Introduction to ethics
• Ancient Ethical Theories
• Evolutionary Ethics
• Modern ethical theories
• CSR, Sustainability and ESG
• Managing Ethics in the Market
• Mechanisms of Unethical Behavior
• Management of ethics in a company
• Ethics of price, quality, and market power
• Ethics of Personal Data and AI
• Ethics of Advertising
• Ethics of Personnel Management
• Ethics of Finance
• Ethics of Relationships with Suppliers

Assessment Elements

• Seminars
  Active participation in seminars, participation in discussions, and the desire to answer the teacher’s questions are assessed.
• Interactive presentations
  Interactive presentation [a speech or act that attempts to persuade someone to buy or do something = подача] of core issues = revision (10 minutes) 1) preparation of an interactive in any graphic editor 2) only the main points of the topic 3) no plagiarism = DO NOT repeat lectures’ material 4) developing your own examples based on theory 5) interactive for the audience (e.g., questions, quiz, short games etc.) 6) use professional literature, business cases and recommendations – REFERENCES!
• Project
  Students choose one of the proposed topics on Business Ethics and prepare a video or essay on this topic.
• Exam
  40 closed questions TEST

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.2 * Exam + 0.2 * Interactive presentations + 0.3 * Project + 0.3 * Seminars

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Becker, C. U. (2019). Business Ethics : Methods and Application. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1982142
• Cam Caldwell. (2020). Business Ethics: Perspectives, Management and Issues. Nova.
• David M. Wasieleski, & James Weber. (2019). Business Ethics: Vol. First edition. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, & Alexei Marcoux. (2018). The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics. Routledge.
• Schwartz, M. S. (2017). Business Ethics : An Ethical Decision-Making Approach. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1470324

Authors

• Sazhina Aleksandra Ildarovna
• Budko Viktoriia Aleksandrovna
• Storchevoi Maksim Anatolevich