Course: Business Ethics

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Course Description:
With immense influence of business organizations on society it is expected for business
managers to recognize their role on overall well being of society. Ethics is intertwined with
this expectation. Recent cases of major ethical violations by firms in many industries are
just few examples for importance of ability to appreciate and deal with the questions of
ethics.
This course is aimed at generating a dialogue and collective reflection o embrace the subtle
and explicit question of ethical choices in various business areas and situations amongst the
participants. The course comprises of experiential learning as well as theoretical
components of ethics, invited talks on personal experience and traditional wisdom on areas
of ethics.
At the end of the course participants should be able to:

Recognize the importance of systematic deliberation on ethical aspects of business

Interpret the different approaches of ethics
Recognize and appreciate the thought on Dharma and Niti in Indian traditional
wisdom
Carry out a conversation on ethical choices using appropriate conceptual anchors
Interrogate the ethical dilemmas and situations in the areas of marketing, Finance,
Intellectual property among others

Evaluation: Total Marks: 100

Attendance/Participation
Case Reviews and Discussion
Project Work/Presentation
Mid Term Exam
End Term Exam.

Session Details:
Session Topics
Nos.
1.

Activities

Project
Presentation

Course
Introduction
Historical
overview
and
main theories of
ethics
Ethical
Questions in
Marketing
Ethical Issues in
Advertising

ASP

5 Jan.

SM, Chapter 1 and 4 (of text

book)

7 Jan.

SM, Chapter6

12 Jan.

Ethical Issues
in Marketing

SM, Chapter 7

14 Jan

Ethical Issues in
Financial
Reporting
Ethical Issues in
People
Management
Ethics and
Corporate
Governance
Environmental
Ethics

SM, Chapter 8

19 Jan

SM, Chapter 9,10

21 Jan

Ethical Issues
in
Advertisement
Ethical Issues
in Financial
Reporting
Ethical Issues
in HRM

SM, Chapter 13, 14

28 Jan

Research Scholar

2 Feb

Ethical Issues in
CSR
Ethical Issues in
Intellectual
Property Rights

SM, Chapter 15

4 Feb.

SKJ

9 Feb

11.

Ethical Issues in
Globalization

SKJ, Chapter 16

11 Feb

12.

Integral View in
Indian Wisdom
Tradition and
Probable
Answers of
Ethical
Questions
Class Test
(Close Book)

Guest Faculty

16 Feb

ASP

18 Feb

2.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.
10.

13.

Ethics and
Corporate
Governance
Ethics and
Corporate
Governance
Ethical Issues
in CSR
Ethical Issues
in Intellectual
Property
Rights
Ethical Issues
in
Globalization
Insight for
Ethical
Business
Management
in Traditional
Wisdom

14.

Recap

Abbreviations:
ASP: Prof. Ashish Pandey
SM: Prof. Satish Modh (Visiting faculty)
SKJ: Prof. S.K.Jha
Text book
Business Ethics: Principles and Practices by Daniel Albuquerque, Oxford Pub.
Recommended Books:
1. Modh, S. Ethical Management: Text and Cases, MacMillan India Ltd, New Delhi
2. Joseph W. Weiss (2011). Business Ethics Concepts and Cases, , Cengage Delmar
Learning India
3. Chakraborty S. K., Values & Ethics for Organisations, OUP, 1998
4. Kenneth Blanchard, Power of Ethical Management, Sage, 1997
5. Norman Bowie (Ed) Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, 2002
Learning and Teaching Method:

This course is based on projects, case analysis and discussions methods on

identified themes and reading material.

In the first session students should form the group and choose the topic of the
project.

Broad topics of the project are given with course outline.

From the 3rd session onwards class will start with student group presenting the
project work in the beginning of the session. Time allotted for project presentation
is maximum 20 minutes and 10 minutes for question-answer and project related
discussion.