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Preliminary considerations. Why business ethics? Introduction: ethics of business - What for? For whom? What kind of business ethics - humanistic vs managerial perspective? Justification of humanistic approach: attitudes, other benefits of humanistic education
Selected issues of humanistic anthropology and axiology.
Ethical categories useful in the analysis of economic life. 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
Can ethics be codified?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.
Selected issues of business ethics.Chosen issues of ethics of economy. Business responsibilities: global and institutional 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
Mass media as a specific sector of the economy.Business of special social responsibilities: mass media. Who rules MM market and state as MM regulators. MM as a "fourth authority". Self regulation of MM: journalists professionalism and rules of MM ethics. Poland: Board of MM ethics, the Charta of MM Ethics
Individual and team responsibilities in the business world.Is being a manager a part of being a human being? What does it mean: to be a human being? Order of genesis and order of determination. "To be" in existential and in predicative sense vs ontological levels of human being. Spirit and psyche, person and personality, concept of human being as a background for theory of values.
Ethics in the enterprise.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.
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
Is business ethics ethics? Relationship between business ethics and rules of marked oriented activities, ethics of economy and pure ethics. Common area of business ethics and ethics.
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