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Organizational matters. Introduction: ethics of business - what for? For whom? What kind o business ethics - humanistic vs managerial perspective. Justification of humanistic approach: attitudes, other benefits of humanistic education.
Is business ethics an ethics? Relationship between business ethics and rules of marked oriented activities, ethics of economy and pure ethics. Ethics of duty as a base for business ethics. Common area of business ethics and ethics.
Status of business ethics codes. Ethics of values by Hartman and Scheler. Values and goods of business and theory of values. Hierarchies of values: power and height indicators and business ethics. Can we codificate any ethics? Benefits, harms and limitations of ethical codes.
Business responsibilities: global dimension. Negative and positive globalization. Multispectral ethics of business: Harvard school - American way to the ethics of business; Davos Manifesto, Caux Round Table rules - European way to it. Three level of ethics of business reflection: global, corporate, and personal. Idea of corporate social responsibility.
Business responsibilities - corporate perspective. What is the aim of corporate activities? A firm as a profit oriented and social responsible institution. Relationship in between of economic and social areas. Boulding's and Bochenski's theses. Types and form of social responsibility of a corporation.
Business responsibilities - corporate perspective. What is the aim of corporate activities? How to assure an ethical dimension of it? Social and deontological responsibility of corporation. Pro-ethical culture. Ethical "minimum" by EBEN, ethical audit, ethical code, codes of good practices.
Business responsibilities - personal level. Manager ethics. A responsible manager at a responsible corporation: ethos, ethical code of manager, manager professionalism. Idea of positive (constructive) competition limits and its limits: monopoly, democracy, others. Lobbying, HR management, ethics of marketing. Manager ethics and pathologies in business.
Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership
-Ethical Investing
-Capitalism. Moral or Immoral?
-Business, Computers and Ethics
-Business Ethics in Global Market
-Ethical Conduct
-Multinational Corporate Responsibility
-Summing-up students semester essays, discussion, organizational issues - grades.
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