Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 176855 | Subject title: BUSINESS ETHICS | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: | Period: 2º S | ||
| Department: Gestión de Empresas | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| HUSILLOS CARQUES, FCO. JAVIER (Resp) [Mentoring ] | |||||
Contents
This course will introduce the student to the management of corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. This course will enable the student to understand and manage the ethical behavior of organizations, and its links with phenomena such as sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and globalization, giving special emphasis on the mechanisms of accountability of organizations to society.
General proficiencies
CG01 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis
CG02 - Organizational and planning skills
CG04 - Oral and written communication in a foreign language
CG06 - Ability to Analyze and Search for Information from various sources
CG07 - Ability to solve problems
CG08 - Ability to make decisions
CG09 - Ability to work in a team
CG11 - Working in an international context
CG12 - Skills in personal relationships
CG13 - Ability to work in diverse and multicultural environments
CG14 - Critical and self-critical capacity
CG15 - Ethical commitment at work
CG17 - Autonomous learning ability
CG23 - Awareness of environmental and social issues
CG24 - Respect for human rights
Specific proficiencies
CE01 - Understand economic institutions as a result and application of theoretical or formal representations about how the economy works
CE04 - Apply professional criteria based on the handling of technical instruments to the analysis of business management problems
CE07 - Assess the situation and foreseeable evolution of a company from the relevant records of information
CE08 - Manage and administer a company or organization, understanding its competitive and institutional location and identifying its strengths and weaknesses
CE11 - Understand the nature of the company as an organization and place of interaction of agents with different interests
CE13 - Identify the company as a system and recognize the interdependencies between the different functional areas
CE14 - Implement policies and practices aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business management
Learning outcomes
Conocimientos o contenidos
RA02. Entender las instituciones económicas como resultado y aplicación de representaciones teóricas o formales acerca de cómo funciona la economía.
RA03. Derivar información relevante para la empresa a partir de datos que no pueden ser reconocidos por no profesionales
RA04. Comprender la naturaleza de la empresa como una organización con diferentes áreas funcionales interdependientes en interacción con agentes con distintos intereses.
RA08. Identificar y analizar los factores históricos, sociales e institucionales que condicionan los procesos económicos
Habilidades o destrezas
RA19. Gestionar y administrar una empresa u organización, comprendiendo su ubicación competitiva e institucional e identificando sus fortalezas y debilidades.
RA20. Planificar, organizar y controlar proyectos de gestión global o de las diferentes áreas funcionales de la empresa.
RA23. Promover mejoras en los procesos de producción para aumentar el valor añadido creado por la empresa.
Competencias
RA25. Utilizar conocimientos, destrezas y habilidades personales, sociales y metodológicas para emitir informes de asesoramiento sobre situaciones concretas de empresas y mercados.
RA26. Analizar y resolver problemas complejos relacionados con la gestión empresarial mediante la aplicación de conocimientos, habilidades y competencias adquiridas.
RA34. Aplicar de manera efectiva los conocimientos, las habilidades técnicas, las capacidades sociales y organizativas adquiridas en la titulación.
Methodology
| Formative activities | Attendance hours | Non-attendance hours |
| FA1 - Theoretical Sessions | 28 | |
| FA2 - Practical Sessions | 28 | |
| FA3 - Individual or group work | 45 | |
| FA4 - Office Hours | 3 | |
| FA5 - Personal Study | 42 | |
| FA6 - Conducting exams | 04 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome | Assessment activity | Weight (%) | It allows test resit | Minimum required grade |
| LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 | Group works | 30 | NO | None |
| LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 | Final Exam | 50 | YES | None |
| LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 | Individual exercises and individual works | 20 | YES | None |
Agenda
| Chapter 1. Introducing Business Ethics |
| Chapter 2. Framing Business Ethics: Corporte Responsibility, Stakeholders, and Citizenship |
| Chapter 3. Evaluating business Ethics: Normative Ethical Theories |
| Chapter 4. Making decisions in business Ethics: Descriptive Ethical Theories |
| Chapter 5. Managing Business Ethics: Tools and Techniques of Business Ethics Management |
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Course Textbook
Crane, A; Matten, D: Glozer, S and Spence, L ( 2019) "Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization" (Fith Edition) Oxford University Press.
Further Reading
Dresner, S (2008). The Principles of Sustainability (second edition) Earthscan (London)
Gray, R; Adams, C and Owen, D (2014). Accountability, social responsibility and sustainability: accounting for society and the environment. Pearson.
McPhil, K and Walters, D (2009) Accounting and Business Ethics. Routledge.
Bowles, Samuel (2017) The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens. Yale University Press.