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Course: Business Ethics_______________________________________________________________________

Course Description:

With immense influence of business organizations on society it is expected for businessmanagers to recognize their role on overall well being of society. Ethics is intertwined withthis expectation. Recent cases of major ethical violations by firms in many industries are

just few examples for importance of ability to appreciate and deal with the questions ofethics.This course is aimed at generating a dialogue and collective reflection o embrace the subtleand explicit question of ethical choices in various business areas and situations amongst theparticipants. The course comprises of experiential learning as well as theoreticalcomponents of ethics, invited talks on personal experience and traditional wisdom on areasof ethics.

At the end of the course participants should be able to:

Recognize the importance of systematic deliberation on ethical aspects of business Interpret the different approaches of ethics Recognize and appreciate the thought on Dharma and Niti in Indian traditional

wisdom Carry out a conversation on ethical choices using appropriate conceptual anchors Interrogate the ethical dilemmas and situations in the areas of marketing, Finance,

Intellectual property among others

Evaluation: Total Marks: 100

Attendance/ParticipationCase Reviews and DiscussionProject Work/PresentationMid Term ExamEnd Term Exam.


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Session Details:SessionNos

Topics Activities ProjectPresentation

1. Course

Introduction

ASP 5 Jan.

2. Historicaloverview andmain theories ofethics

SM, Chapter 1 and 4 (of textbook) 7 Jan.

3 EthicalQuestions inMarketing

SM, Chapter6 12 Jan. Ethical Issuesin Marketing

4. Ethical Issues in Advertising

SM, Chapter 7 14 Jan Ethical Issuesin

Advertisement

5. Ethical Issues inFinancialReporting

SM, Chapter 8 19 Jan Ethical Issuesin FinancialReporting

6. Ethical Issues inPeopleManagement

SM, Chapter 9,10 21 Jan Ethical Issuesin HRM

7. Ethics andCorporateGovernance

SM, Chapter 13, 14 28 Jan Ethics andCorporateGovernance

8. EnvironmentalEthics

Research Scholar 2 Feb Ethics andCorporate

Governance9. Ethical Issues inCSR

SM, Chapter 15 4 Feb. Ethical Issuesin CSR

10. Ethical Issues inIntellectualProperty Rights

SKJ 9 Feb Ethical Issuesin IntellectualPropertyRights

11. Ethical Issues inGlobalization

SKJ, Chapter 16 11 Feb Ethical IssuesinGlobalization

12. Integral View in

Indian WisdomTradition andProbable

Answers ofEthicalQuestions

Guest Faculty 16 Feb Insight for

EthicalBusinessManagementin Traditional

Wisdom

13. Class Test(Close Book)

ASP 18 Feb


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14. Recap

Abbreviations: ASP: Prof. Ashish PandeySM: Prof. Satish Modh (Visiting faculty)

SKJ: Prof. S.K.Jha

Text bookBusiness Ethics: Principles and Practices by Daniel Albuquerque, Oxford Pub.

Recommended Books:

1. Modh, S. Ethical Management: Text and Cases, MacMillan India Ltd, New Delhi 2. Joseph W. Weiss (2011). Business Ethics Concepts and Cases , , Cengage Delmar

Learning India3. Chakraborty S. K., Values & Ethics for Organisations , OUP, 19984. Kenneth Blanchard, Power of Ethical Management, Sage, 19975. Norman Bowie (Ed) Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, 2002

Learning and Teaching Method:

This course is based on projects, case analysis and discussions methods onidentified themes and reading material.

In the first session students should form the group and choose the topic of the project.

Broad topics of the project are given with course outline.

From the 3rd session onwards class will start with student group presenting the project work in the beginning of the session. Time allotted for project presentationis maximum 20 minutes and 10 minutes for question-answer and project relateddiscussion.

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