BE439-6-AP-KS:
Business Ethics
2022/23
Essex Business School
Kaplan Singapore
Autumn & Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 06 October 2022
Friday 24 March 2023
15
01 February 2023
Requisites for this module
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This 10 week module builds upon your existing understandings of management and organisation by considering specifically the ethics of, and in, business. The emergent field of Business Ethics and associated field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability have made particular contributions in shaping an ethical examination of business. In this module you will be introduced to the origins, practice and theory of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. You will be provided with the conceptual and theoretical resources to examine critically the nature of their contributions. Identifying particular assumptions that inform but also constrain the Business Ethics field the module also explores a number of wider literatures and perspectives that provide further resources for a critical examination of the ethics of business.
1. Provide an understanding of business and management as a complex and contested ethical terrain.
2. Provide an appreciation of the emergent discipline of Business Ethics and enable students to identify, explore and critique its contributions.
3. Develop students’ appreciation of the basis of ethical reflexivity and agency and awareness of potential inhibitors to their expression in an organised context.
4. Through class discussion, reading, participation and assessment develop students’ abilities to engage in critical argumentation that is informed by, and sensitive to, their own and others’ ethical perspectives and values.
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Understand a range of ethical factors in, and perspectives, practices and critiques of, business and organisation.
2. Develop greater sensitivity and awareness of implied and explicit ethical assumptions and beliefs in their own and others’ argumentation.
3. Critically analyse, using appropriate ethical concepts and theory, management and business practices and the contribution of the field of Business Ethics towards enhancing ethical accountability in business.
Skills for Your Professional Life
(Transferable Skills - reflecting the skills mapping recently undertaken in EBS)
Analytical and Cognitive Skills: Critical thinking, evaluation of evidence, creative problem solving, recognition of rival conceptual ideas, analysing qualitative data, analysing academic literature, desk research, netnographic skills.
Personal Effectiveness: Teamwork, showing leadership, showing adaptability to changing circumstances, showing own initiative, demonstrating motivation to succeed, expressing research findings in a report, expressing ideas for business purposes, argumentation/essay writing skills.
Professional Practice: Core IT skills, working with data interactively, identifying research and aims, identifying suitable frameworks and models for research, using different research methods appropriately, reporting research findings, understanding plagiarism and referencing.
Business Management Skills: Ability to adapt different leadership practices and identify leadership opportunities, ability to identify significance and effects of HRM practices, ability to develop greater sensitivity and awareness around implied and explicit ethical assumptions and beliefs, ability to adopt strategy model and develop appropriate strategies for global business, ability to critically evaluate consumer behaviour, brand and digital marketing communication channels, ability to analyse management practices and contemporary challenges in operations and supply chain management.
Management and Marketing Skills: Understand and work with social media and media analytical tools including social marketing skills, communicate professional accords different media and technological platforms, adopting a form and style that is appropriate, understand similarities and difference between academic and commercial research, interpret and understand business-related information including visual and media analysis, understand innovation in the marketing and management context.
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This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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No lecture recording information available for this module.
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