Business Ethics ( BADM-121)

Course Code Course Title Credits (ECTS)

BADM-121 Business Ethics 6
Department Semester Prerequisites
Management Spring MGT-281

Type of Course Field Language of Instruction

Major Requirement Management English
for the MGT
program and elective
for all Business
programs
Level of Course Year of Study Lecturer
1st Cycle ¾ Dr Marlen Demetriou
Mode of Delivery Work Placement Co-requisites
face-to-face N/A None
Course Days/Times Course Venue Student Consultation Hours

Wednesday EU203 Monday 8:30-9:00, 16:00-18:00

12:00-15:00 Wednesday 10:00-12:00

Telephone E-mail Office

22-841683 Demetriou.m@unic.ac.cy EU102b

Objectives of the Course:

The course aims to provide to the students an understanding of major ethical
terminology and basic ethical systems oriented towards business ethics. It aims to
help students understand the need to lead their careers as business people to the
ethical perspective. Topics like Internal Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethics in
Corporate Governance, in Marketing as well as Corporate Social Responsibility will
be explicitly analyzed

Learning Outcomes:
After completion of the course students are expected to be able to:
1. Critically analyze and evaluate the different theoretical models of stakeholder
management.
2. Identify the key features of a representative range of theories of ethics and
critically evaluate those theories
3. Describe and assess a model of corporate social responsibility.
4. Critically evaluate the different conceptions of environment and
sustainability
5. Evaluate how Ethics and Responsibility in business are affected by
organizational structures and cultures
6. Identify and Evaluate key models of Corporate Governance
 7. Identify and evaluate a range of mechanism by which organizations attempts
to manage their ethics
8. Identify and evaluate the key ethical issues that arise with the range of
operations of an organization’s value chain.
9. Explain why some companies donate more strategically than others and
discuss drivers and main forms of employer-supported volunteering.

Course Contents:

1. Corporate Social Responsibility.

2. The Stakeholder Theory of a Firm and Management.
3. Ethics in Business
4. Environmental Ethics
5. Corporate Governance
6. Internal Ethics
7. Ethical and Strategic Risks
8. Ethics in Marketing
9. Entrepreneurial ethics
10. Corporate Philanthropy
11. Patterns of giving behaviour
12. Employee volunteering

Teaching Methods:
Lectures, Discussions with class participation and group projects.

Assessment Methods:
Mid-Term Test, Final Exam; Homework-Class Participation.

Required Textbooks:
Authors Title Publisher Year ISBN
Paul Gesera and Business Ethics and South-Weste
Nina Seppala Corporate Social rn Cengage 2010 140-800-7436
Responsibility

AnneT.Lawrence, Business and Society McGraw 2015 0-07-128936-4

James Weber Hill 970

Recommended Textbooks/Reading:
Authors Title Publisher Year ISBN
Cannon Tom Corporate Pearson 2012 978-0-273-738
Responsibility, 2nd 73-2
Edition

Grading Policy:
Test: 40%
Final Exam : 40%
 Homework and
Class Participation/ 20%
Attendance

Week Topic Reading

Introduction to the Course
● Course description, regulations etc
Week ● Ethics in business and Society General
1 ● General discussion on Business Ethics Introduction
and Social Responsibility .
● Basic terms & expressions
The Corporation in Society:

● The concept and definitions of

Week corporate social responsibility. Book Chapter 1
2 Understanding
● Describe and assess a model of corporate social
corporate social responsibility responsibility

● key arguments for and against the

concept of corporate social
responsibility

● The concept of corporate citizenship.

Stakeholder Management:
Week ● Different stakeholder definitions
3 Book Chapter 2
● Prioritize stakeholder groups Stakeholder
Management
● Theoretical models of stakeholder
management.

● What stakeholder management is

● Stakeholder theory for ethics and

corporate social responsibility

Business Ethics:
Book Chapter 3
Week ● Roles of theories in business ethics. Business Ethics
4 ● Key features of a representative range of
theories of ethics.
 ● The application of these theories in a
business context.

Environmental Ethics
Week ● Environmental issues as they affect Book Chapter 4
5 industries. Environmental
● Key parties to the environmental debate Ethics
and their agendas.
● Different conceptions of environment
and sustainability
Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
Book Chapter
● The Meaning of ethics 5
● Ethics in Marketing The behavioral
Week ● Analyzing ethical problems in Business context of Ethics
6 ● Case studies
Week ● Revision Book Chapter
7 ● Case study Analysis 1,2,3,4,5, Case
Studies

Week MID-TERM
8
Building Relationships with stakeholders:
Corporate Governance
● Key models of corporate governance. Book Chapter
Week ● Government legislation and national 9
9 political cultures. Governing the
● Different national approaches to Corporation
corporate governance.
Internal Ethics
● Managing corporate ethics Book Chapter 11
Week ● Managing values Internal Ethics
10 ● Whistle-blowing
● Organizational information ethics
● Key ethical issues in an organization’s
Week value chain. Book Chapter 12
11 ● Key ethical and strategic risks Responsibility in
● Managing people ethically Managing People
● Ethics in Marketing and operations
● Entrepreneurial ethics
● Safety and Ethics
Week ● Corporate Philanthropy Book chapter 14
12 ● Patterns of giving behaviour Giving Back to
● Employee volunteering Society
FINAL EXAM