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The Course critically explores Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), tracing its historical origins through to current practice within organisations and the impact on the wider world. It discusses ethical theories and examines the basic concepts underlying virtue ethics. The Course examines areas of ethical business relationships (employer and employee relationships, business and consumer, business and community, business and environment).
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Offshore | Sustained Study | No |
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This Course covers the fundamental question of what ethics is granting a context for the discussion of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. It will explore a range of ethical theory and areas of ethical business relationships (employer and employee relationships, business and consumer, business and community, business and environment). In an increasingly global business environment, the issues of business ethics and corporate social responsibility are coming to the fore. The business world increasingly realizes that how it acts and how it is perceived to act are vital to its continued existence. Corporations around the globe produce elaborate CSR policies designed not only to be read by their employees but also by the wider society. This Course will engage with why these issues have become important and why businesses are looking to have an ethically informed workforce.
Among the areas explored in the Course are:
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
3,000-word essay. Feedback will be provided through written feedback on the assignment |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Analyse the moral questions that business activity specifically creates |
| Factual | Understand | Understand the key tenets of moral theories that are relevant to business |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be capable of evaluating the ethics of particular business decisions and general practices in business |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be able to evaluate common beliefs about ethics and especially common beliefs about the role of ethics in business |
| Reflection | Analyse | Be capable of identifying and analysing information and proposing potential solutions for the ethical practice of business |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Infographic poster. Feedback will be provided through written feedback on the assignment. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Analyse the moral questions that business activity specifically creates |
| Factual | Understand | Understand the key tenets of moral theories that are relevant to business |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply theoretical frameworks to the study and practice of business ethics in contemporary business issues using case studies |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be capable of evaluating the ethics of particular business decisions and general practices in business |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Oral feedback will be provided during seminars/tutorials |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Analyse the moral questions that business activity specifically creates |
| Factual | Understand | Understand the key tenets of moral theories that are relevant to business |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply theoretical frameworks to the study and practice of business ethics in contemporary business issues using case studies |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be capable of evaluating the ethics of particular business decisions and general practices in business |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be able to evaluate common beliefs about ethics and especially common beliefs about the role of ethics in business |
| Reflection | Analyse | Be capable of identifying and analysing information and proposing potential solutions for the ethical practice of business |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
3,000-word essay. Written feedback |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Understand | Understand the key tenets of moral theories that are relevant to business |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Analyse the moral questions that business activity specifically creates |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be able to evaluate common beliefs about ethics and especially common beliefs about the role of ethics in business |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Be capable of evaluating the ethics of particular business decisions and general practices in business |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply theoretical frameworks to the study and practice of business ethics in contemporary business issues using case studies |
| Reflection | Analyse | Be capable of identifying and analysing information and proposing potential solutions for the ethical practice of business |
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