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Ethics in Business
FAST-CZ52Acad. year: 2011/2012
Development of ethics in philosophy, new conceptions of ethics, ethics and morality, social events and ethics, relations between ethics, economis and business, economic pragmatism, utilitarism, liberalism, introduce to management of ethics, manager and ethics, firm strategy and ethics, ethics in firm philosophy, ethics in firm culture.
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2. Concept of ethics. Traditional and modern conceptions.
3. Metamorphosis of the relations between ethics and business. Positivism, existentialism and materialism.
4. Corporate culture and identity, importance of ethics in management.
5. Importance of ethics, psychology and sociology for the economic way of thinking.
6. Relations between ethics, economics and business.
7. Directions in ethics: Economic pragmatism, utilitarianism, liberalism and neoliberalism.
8. Ethics in management in business: fundamentals and importance.
9. The manager and ethics - perspectives and changes.
10. Corporate strategy and ethics, ethics as a strategy?
11. Philosophical aspects of ethics, contemporary philosophy of business.
12. Modernism and postmodernism in ethics: corporate strategy.
13. Self-assessment exercise in the area of ethics and management.
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Basic literature
LINDR, Jaroslav: Etika v podnikání. M01 Nástin etiky, M02 Etická firemní strategie, M03 Implementace etiky. Brno: FAST, 2007. (CS)
Recommended reading
BRÁZDOVÁ, Dagmar: Zásady společenského chování. Praha: Road, 1991. ISBN 80-85385-09-0.
KÁRNÍKOVÁ, Jitka: Etika v podnikání a řídící práci. Praha, VŠE, 1997. ISBN 80-7079-524-7.
KOHOUTEK, Rudolf a ŠTĚPANÍK, Jaroslav: Psychologie práce a řízení. Brno: Cerm, 2000. ISBN 80-214-1552-5.
RIEGEL, Karel: Etika a psychologie v podnikání. Praha, Karolinum, 2006. ISBN 80-246-1118-X.
SINGER, Peter: Practical ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
ŠAFRÁNKOVÁ, Jana: Sociologie pro techniky. Praha: ČVUT, 1992. ISBN 80-01-00791-X. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-P-E-SI Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme N-P-C-SI Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme N-K-C-SI Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch V , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective