Management Ethics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• recognise the impacts of managerial decisions, both positive and negative, upon other people;
• apply a logical and structured form of ethical analysis;
• gain the confidence to convincingly express your decisions to others;
• to be familiar with some ethical concepts and distinctions.
• recognise the mixture of benefits distributed and harms allocated, of rights exercised and rights denied, that constitute an ethical problem;
• develop skills of problem definition, analysis, problem solving and decision taking;

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to avoid unethical business behaviour.
• some of the causes and consequences of unethical behaviour in individuals and organisations;
• ethical theories and concepts relevant to organisations;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Show problem-solving skills
• communicate complex issues in a clear and coherent manner.

Topics covered in this module will include:

• Moral basis of economic theory – assumptions and externalities.
• Critique of ‘classical’ perspectives against business ethics.
• Stakeholder perspective, stakeholder analysis.
• Examples of issues in Business Ethics e.g., advertising, environmental practices, job design, digital surveillance etc.
• Ethical theories and moral philosophers: Deontological ethical theories e.g. Kant; Consequentialist theories e.g. Utilitarianism; Justice theories e.g. Rawls; Rights theorists; Virtue theorists e.g. Aristotle. Immanent ethics, e.g., Foucault and Deleuze.
• Modern ethical theories e.g., immanent ethics.
• Ethical theories from socio-psychological perspectives
• Application of ethical theories to case studies.

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures,
• Seminars,
• Case studies,
• Activities,
• Conversational discussions,
• Group work

Learning activities include:

• Individual and group assignments (group or individual)
• Case study
• Problem solving activities
• Private study

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative feedback will be given in classes. Formative feedback relevant to the individual coursework will be in form of verbal comments on group class exercises that will cover relevant material that will be assessed in final coursework assignment.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.