SL2006  BUSINESS ETHICS (A.Y. 2023/2024)

• Accademic Unit

  Faculty of Social Sciences

• Course

  Licentiate in Leadership and Management

Objectives: The ethical quality of the management is an important challenge for every commercial company and the persons making decisions on its behalf. It is at the same time a key question for any project management, and the very condition of possibility for an efficient, ethical, and sustainable leadership. "Business Ethics" offers a good opportunity for the students of the Leadership and Management Program to deepen their understanding about the social and organizational relevance of the ethical dimension of business, and its impact on society.
\li360 Contents:
\li3601. Trends and Challenges for Business in the XXI Century
2. Business Ethics and moral reasoning
\li709 3. The role of Business in Society: Sustainable Development Goals from an Integral Ecology point of view
\li360 4. A Stakeholder approach for management
\li709 5. Ethical dimension of functional areas (Human Resources Management, Marketing, Finance...)
\li360 6. Managing Ethics in Organizations
\li360 Methodology:
1. Lectures
2. Analysis of short cases and scenarios
3. Reading of parts of books and articles
4. Viewing of documentary films
5. Group work to prepare the tasks assigned
6. Kahoots for consolidating learnings
\li360 Means of evaluation: The course requires a final paper and/or test, where the contents and skills acquired by the student must be reflected, along with the maturity of his judgement in matters of Business Ethics, and his personal conclusions.

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography

Information

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 4

Teachers

José Luis FERNÁNDEZ FERNÁNDEZ

Lesson schedule/Room

Semester	Day	From	To	Room	Floor	Building	Notes
1° Semestre		0.00	0.00	TBD	0		Dall'8 al 23 gennaio 2024

Bibliography

• Crane, A. and Matten, D. (2010). Business Ethics: managing corporate citizenship and Sustainability in the age of globalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford; Fernández Fernández, J. L. “Fundamentals of Business Ethics: Individual Ethics and Organizational Ethics", en VALBUENA, E., Ethics, Law and Professional Deontology, ESIC, Madrid, 2021.