2015/16 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5792M Business Ethics

10 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Christopher Megone
Email: C.B.Megone@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

The module uses concepts from the ethics literature such as responsibility, duty, accountability, respect, justice, fairness, truth and trust as a lens through which to consider the behaviour of business and the relationship between business and society. Class work stimulates your group working skills, while the individual assessed project will demand from you researching and skills of data evaluation.

Objectives

The aim of this module is to provide students with knowledge of key ethical and corporate responsibility concepts and their application to business and the professions. The module content offers both an overview of business ethics and corporate responsibility and focus on the application of ethics to specific areas of business, such as international management, Human Resource Management, advertising and corporate reporting.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Apply key ethical concepts to business organisations, functions within business and professions
- Identify corporate responsibility theories and explore the relationship between them and business strategy
- Critically analyse competing theories on business ethics
- Critique and evaluate existing ethical policies and corporate responsibility initiatives
- Critically apply ethical concepts to their own professional or work-place experience

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Work effectively as a member of a group
- Apply researching and data evaluation skills proficiently
- Appreciate different perspectives and apply these in analytical and critical thinking

Subject Specific
- Bring theoretical concepts from other disciplines to bear in a business world context

Syllabus

Indicative content
The Application of Ethics to Business and to Business Strategy and Corporate Responsibility
The Extent of Corporate Ethical Responsibilities
HRM and Ethics
Corporate responsibility for the supply chain
The Ethics of Advertising
Ethical Issues in International business
Business regulation and the financial crisis

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	6	3.00	18.00
Private study hours			82.00
Total Contact hours			18.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Students will be expected to manage their time to select an appropriate mix of reading and revision, independent on-line learning and private study to suit their individual learning style and skills profile in preparation for seminars.

Students will be expected to undertake pre and follow up reading around the seminars. The individual assessed coursework will demand students to research ethical policies and CR initiatives of a work-place of their own experience or of a FTSE 100 enterprise. This will require both organisational and industry assessment.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Monitoring and advice-giving on the individual assessed assignment.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Project	2,500 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit is for the module – students failing the module will be offered the opportunity to resit by examination for the module credit with a maximum mark of 50 being awarded. There will normally only be one, single opportunity to resit the module. Students failing the module will not normally be able to carry forward to the resit project marks from the first sit; the resit will be wholly based on the mark obtained in the resit examination.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/04/2015

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