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Department of Management

1. Course Information

Academic Year: 2016

Semester: 3

Class Year: 4

Programmed: Management

Course Title: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Course Code:

Credit hours: 3

Pre-requisite: None

2. Course Description

This course is designed to increase students‟ awareness and understanding of ethical issues in business,
and to

provide students with useful conceptual tools to guide analysis and decisions. The ultimate intent of the
course

is to leave students better equipped to identify, think critically about, and resolve ethical issues that are

encountered in one‟s working life at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.

Some of the conceptual tools and frameworks to be discussed throughout the course include:

• Ethics versus the Law

• Moral Responsibility

• Moral Theory, Reasoning, and Development


• Ethical Decision-Making

• Corporate Social Responsibility Theory

The course will apply these conceptual tools and frameworks to the treatment by business of their
various

stakeholder groups including: shareholders; employees; consumers; suppliers, the natural environment,

communities, and governments. The course concludes with a discussion of how companies can better
establish

ethical corporate cultures (e.g., compliance and ethics programs).

3. Course Objectives:

a. To enhance awareness and increase understanding of the nature of business ethics in the national as
well as

global business environment.

b. To examine the ethical implications of business practices from a stakeholder perspective.

c. To increase awareness of the challenges of business social responsibility.

d. To develop critical thinking skills via the application of concepts and theories to business cases

4. Course Topics:

1. Chapter One: Introduction to Business Ethics / Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility

1.1. Introduction to Ethics and CSR

1.2. Definition of CSR

1.3. Corporate Citizenship

1.4. Social responsiveness and performance

2. Chapter Two: Management of Stakeholders

2.1. Definition of Stakeholders


2.2. Stakeholder Management

2.3. Implications for CSR

3. Chapter Three: Theory of Ethics

3.1. Introduction to Ethics

3.2. Ethical egoism and subjectivism

4. Chapter Four : Ethics of Business: Management and Leadership

4.1. Statement of value

4.2. Codes of conduct and ethic

4.3. Ethics training, audits and consultants

5. Chapter Five : Corporate Social Responsibility

5.1. Rationale for corporate social responsibility

5.2. Describing social responsibility

5.3. Social responsibility debate

5.4. Social responsibility theories

5.5. Pyramid of CSR

5.6. Contemporary CSR concepts

6. Chapter Six - Corporate Social Responsibility: In Practice

6.1. Responses to corporate social responsibility

6.2. Planning for CSR

6.3. Corporate philanthropy, voluntarism, and sponsorship

6.4. Social venture philanthropy (SVP)

6.5. Social auditing and reporting


6.6. Corporate reputation and CSR

7. Chapter Seven: Environmental Ethics

7.1. Approaches to environmental issues

7.2. Opposition to green environmentalism

7.3. Sustainable development

7.4. ROI of sustainable environmental responsibility

8. Chapter Eight: CSR and Ethics in a Global Context

8.1. Global business activity and practice

8.2. Operating in conflict zones

8.3. Bottom-of-the Pyramid – doing business in poverty markets

8.4. Corruption and its impact on the national and global economy

9. Chapter Nine: Managing Ethics and CSR Internally

9.1. Corporate values & culture

9.2. Ethical change management

9.3. Managing people ethically

9.4. Traditional human resource issues

Textbook

Sexty, R. (2014). Canadian Business and Society: Ethics, Responsibilities and Sustainability. 3rd Canadian

Edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

Other Materials

Trevino, L.K., Brown, M. and Hartman, L.P. (January 2003). A Qualitative Investigation of

Perceived Executive Ethical Leadership: Perceptions from Inside and Outside the Executive
suite, Human Relations 56. 1, 5–37.

Friedman, M. (September 13, 2007). The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its

Profits. The New York Times Magazine.

Sisodia, R., Sheth, J., Wolfe, D. Chapter 5: Customers–the Power of Love, Firms of Endearment:

How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, 97–124.

Brammer, S., Hoejmose, S., Millington, A., and NBS. Managing Sustainable Global Supply

Chains: Network for Business Sustainability

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