Business and economics ethics

1. Moral responsibility and ethical issues

2. Moral principles (Utilitarianism, rights, justice, ethics of care and virtues)

3. Environmental and inter-generational ethics

4. Alternative management

At the end of the course, students will be able to :

- Tackle some ethical dilemmas they might face in their professional life.

- Critically think about concrete cases.

- Understand different ethical frameworks that will help them to address these cases.

- Develop some reasoning on these ethical issues

Ethics is increasingly debated in the business and economic worlds. This course will address a few ethical issues related to daily management and economic systems

Lectures, exercises, videos, case studies

Contribution to the teaching profile

The course contributes to the development of the following skills :

• Analyse change contexts from an integrative perspective, making sense of all available empirical data with an innovative and rigourous theoretical framework.

• Recommend practical and creative managerial solutions to the most pressing organizational and societal problems.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Velasquez, M. (2012), Business Ethics. Concepts and Cases (8th edition), Pearson: New Jersey.

Contacts

marek.hudon@ulb.ac.be

Method(s) of evaluation

• Other

Other

Paper and oral exam.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

Paper (25%)

Oral exam (75%)

Language(s) of evaluation

• english