BSC N200 Business Management,
BSC N201 Business Management (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N202 Business Management (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N204 Business Management (Including Placement Year),
BA T7N2 Latin American Studies with Business Management,
BA T7N4 Latin American studies with Business Management (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N2N5 Management and Marketing (Including Foundation Year),
BSC NN25 Management and Marketing,
BSC NN2M Management and Marketing (Including Placement Year),
BSC NNF5 Management and Marketing (Including Year Abroad),
BA LN10 Business Economics,
BA LN11 Business Economics (Including Year Abroad),
BA LN12 Business Economics (Including Placement Year),
BA LX10 Business Economics (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV20 Philosophy with Business Management,
BA VV21 Philosophy with Business Management (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV22 Philosophy with Business Management (Including Placement Year),
BA VV23 Philosophy with Business Management (Including Year Abroad),
BA L933 Global Studies with Business Management,
BA L934 Global Studies with Business Management (Including Foundation Year),
BA L935 Global Studies with Business Management (Including Placement Year),
BA L936 Global Studies with Business Management (Including Year Abroad),
MMANNN35 Marketing and Management,
MMANNN36 Marketing and Management (Including Placement Year),
MMANNN37 Marketing and Management (Including Year Abroad),
BA L215 Politics with Business,
BA L216 Politics with Business (Including Placement Year),
BA L217 Politics with Business (including Year Abroad),
BSC LL25 Politics with Business,
BSC LL26 Politics with Business (Including Placement Year),
BSC LL27 Politics with Business (including Year Abroad),
BSC N260 Business and Human Resource Management,
BSC N261 Business and Human Resource Management (including Placement Year),
BSC N262 Business and Human Resource Management (including Year Abroad),
BSC N263 Business and Human Resource Management (Including Foundation Year)
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.
The module will be delivered through a mixture of formal lectures and classes. You are strongly advised to attend all lectures and seminars and participate fully. In the seminars you will discuss and debate empirical and theoretical research on business ethics, examine relevant influential representations of the ethics of business in film and other media, and consider examples from contemporary organisational practice. Details of the necessary reading and preparation required for the seminars will be provided on Moodle.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.