Course outline

School

Economics & Social Sciences

Department

Business Administration

Level of Studies

Undergraduate

Course code

802

Semester

8o

Course title

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Weekly teaching hours
-

ECTS

4

5

Type of course

General background

Prerequisite course

ΝΟ

Language of instruction and exams

Greek

The course is offered to Erasmus students

YES

Course URL

Learning outcomes

Corporate social responsibility is a dynamic industry of great importance

στην επιχειρηματική πρακτική. Περαιτέρω είναι κατ’ εξοχήν αντικείμενο διοίκησης

business, as an independent branch, and not an object of another science, introduced

as supplies for the future operations commander.

In this course we study the ethical problems created by

action of the business units, as well as the ethical issues that arise for

employees in the workplace.

At the end of the course students should be able to understand

basic concerns of ethical teaching and appreciate its importance

ethics for doing business. They should be familiar with

ethical problems of business activity and with the business sector

ethics as a historical phenomenon that emerged along with the gigantism of the anonymous.

General Skills

• Demonstration of social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
• Project planning and management
• Adaptation to new situations

• The Relationship between Business - Economic Activity and Ethics: Minimalist, Maximalist and Neo-Aristotelian Views.
• Business and Employees: Work, Personality - Motivation, Productivity, Justice.
• Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions: Recruitment Criteria, Equal Opportunities, Compensatory Policies, Employee Obligations, Advertising, Competition, Legal Framework and Business Activity.
• Articulation of Responsibilities towards: Shareholders, the Community, Consumers, Employees.
• Ecological Problem and Models of Economic Development.
• Business and Cultural Environment.
• Self-regulation, Codes of Ethics and Government Intervention.
• Globalization and New "Example" for Theory and Ethical Decisions.

TEACHING METHOD

face-to-face

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Use of information and communication technologies in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students.

Electronic communication with students, learning-process support through the “e-class” online platform.

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

STUDENT EVALUATION

Written final exam (70%) including:

Multiple choice questions

Analysis of roles and stakeholders in a brief case study

Solving problems related to the subject of the course

Comparative evaluation of theory elements

II) Individual or Group Project (30%)

The purpose of the project is to check the skills developed by the students in tools and services related to consumer behavior and their ability to plan and implement a project in a group or autonomously.

• BLOWFIELD MICHAEL, MURRAY ALAN, 2021, ΕΤΑΙΡΙΚΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΕΥΘΥΝΗ, Broken Hill Publishers
• Rasche Andreas, Morsing Mette, Moon Jeremy (Συγγρ.) – Σαχινίδης Αλέξανδρος, Ρουμελιώτης Μιχάλης (Επιμ.), (2020), Εταιρική κοινωνική ευθύνη, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΕ
• Haski-LeventhalDebbie, Κωνσταντίνος Μανασάκης, Γεώργιος Θερίου (επιμέλεια), (2018), Στρατηγική Εταιρική Κοινωνική Ευθύνη, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε.