Business Ethics and Managerial Psychology

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Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

This course is designed as an introduction to thinking ethically. Ethics really has to do with all levels-acting ethically as individuals, creating ethical organizations and governments, and making our society as a whole ethical in the way it treats everyone.

Requirements:

Preparation and presentation of term paper on the extent of 6 pages of text.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Introduction into Ethics, Basic Concepts.

2.History of Ethical Thinking - Main Topics.

3.Psychology of Moral Development.

4.Constitution of healthy egoism.

5.Business Ethics.

6.Entrepreneurial culture.

7.Current ethical dares.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Presentation of semester students work on selected topics.

Study Objective:

This course is designed as an introduction to thinking ethically. Ethics really has to do with all levels-acting ethically as individuals, creating ethical organizations and governments, and making our society as a whole ethical in the way it treats everyone. Simply stated, ethics refers to standards of behaviour that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves-as businesspeople, teachers, professionals, and so on., Often our feelings will tell us it is uncomfortable to do the right thing if it is hard. A good system of law does incorporate many ethical standards, but law can deviate from what is ethical. There are two fundamental problems in identifying the ethical standards we are to follow: 1. What do we base our ethical standards on? 2. How do those standards get applied to specific situations we face?, Many philosophers and ethicists have helped us to answer this critical question. They have suggested at least five different sources of ethical standards we should use., The Business Psychology represents an innovative combination of applied psychology and Human Resource (HR) knowledge designed to meet organisational needs. The emphasis is to equip students with theoretical and analytical skills, as well as practical business psychology skills in areas such as team building, decision making, facilitation and organisational diagnostics of teams.

Study materials:

Bohatá M., Seknička P., Šerák M. : Úvod do hospodářské etiky. CODEX Bohemia 1997

Haas A. : Morální inteligence. Columbus. Praha 1999

Heidbrink H. : Psychologie morálního vývoje. Portál. Praha 1997

Kirschner J. : Nebojte se egoismu. Knižní klub. Praha 1994

Thompson M. : Přehled etiky. Portál. Praha 2004

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• 09 116 NSTI VMI 2012 základ (compulsory course in the program)
• 13 136 NSTI MMT 2012 základ (compulsory elective course)