INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE
Post Graduate Programme in Management2015-16Term: II
TITLE OF THE COURSE: Ethics and Csr (workshop)CREDITS: 2
CreditsName of the Faculty member:Prof. Abha ChattarjeeProf. G.
Venkat RamanProf. Biswanath Swain
Faculty Block and Room no.:A 204B 111 C 104
Email:
[email protected]@[email protected]
Telephone Number:0731-2439-5270731-2439-585 0731-2439-570
Course DescriptionIn todays rapidly changing milieu, society
increasingly demands ethical and social responsibility. The
business ethics course is designed to provide an ethical dimension
to the conduct of commerce. It not only highlights at what is, but
also what can be and what ought to be. The course intends to help
participants to think more deeply about the ethical choices they
make and will have to make in their business and professional
lives.
COURSE OBJECTIVES To make participants aware of ethical issues
and their place in business To apply different frameworks to
ethical issues that arise in business activity To develop critical
thinking for decision making
Pedagogy/Teaching Method:The course is structured to be a
combination of lectures, discussions, classroom activities, and
projection of some video clips.
Expected Learning Outcomes and Associated MeasuresAt the end of
the course student is expected to accomplish the following learning
outcomes (CLO). Alignment of CLO with the Programme Level Goals
& Objectives and Assessment of the learning outcomes of the
course is presented below.Course Learning OutcomeProgram Level
Goals/ OutcomeAssessment Tool(s)
1. Will be able to appreciate differences between ethical and
non-ethical dilemmasPLG 8: Prepare business leaders of integrity
with a sound understanding of ethics8.1Identifies and
differentiates ethical issues from unethical ones pertaining to a
business
Individual Activity (Includes ethical compliance Tests,
Quiz)
2. Will be able to apply ethical approaches to solve workplace
dilemmas8.2 Analyse the given perspective in the light of ethical
principles
Group Presentation
3. Will be able to appreciate the moral corporation through CSR
initiatives8.4Demonstrates understanding of the current issues of
leadership behavior
PLG 4: Inculcate Integrative Thinking ability4.3 Adopts or
develops own perspective or position4.6 Devises necessary
strategies or tactics as part of action plan to address the
problem
Research exercises. Students will be individually evaluated
EVALUATION ToolsQuizPoor, Satisfactory, Good, Excellent
ActivityPoor, Satisfactory, Good, Excellent
Research exercisePoor, Satisfactory, Good, Excellent
Schedule of Sessions
Module I: Introduction to Business Ethics
Module Objective: To appreciate the relevance of ethics in
business today
Sessions and Objective
Session 1: Why Business Ethics?
Objective: To comprehend the nature of business ethics and to
analyze why there is a requirement of ethics in Business.
Reading: 1. Badaracco, J.L Jr., Right versus Right: When
Managers Are Faced with Tough Ethical Choices, HBR 1997, Product
no. 3052BC2. Gellerman, Saul W., Why Good Managers Make Bad Ethical
Choices, HBR July 1986.
Activity1: Ethics Compliance Test
Session 2: Contemporary Issues in Business
Objective: To familiarize with relevant concepts in Ethics. Some
of the concepts to be introduced in this session include ethical
fading, motivated blindness, indirect blindness, slippery slope,
Dan Arielys concepts like the ego motivation and financial
motivation and the fuzz factor. In addition to that there would be
a discussion on various contemporary issues in Business and their
ethical solution.
Reading: Bazerman, H. Max and Tenbrunsel, Ann E., Ethical
Breakdowns, HBR April 2011
Activity 2:Test to be conducted by taking one or two issues
happened/happening in an organization or organizations and to
identify the ethical issue in the same.
Module II: Ethical Decision Making
Module Objective: To hone the ethical decision making skills
Sessions and Objective
Session 3: Ethical Approaches
Objective: To know, analyze, and appreciate the developed/given
ethical frameworks. Alternatively we can say: To introduce students
to the basic premises of some of the well-established ethical
frameworks like teleology, deontology, virtue ethics
Reading: Kvalnes, Oyvind and Overenger, Einar., Ethical
Navigation in Leadership Training, EtikkPraksis: Nordic Journal of
Applied Ethics, 2012, 6(1), pp. 58 71
Case: Approaches to Ethics: The Study of Ethics, 1984, Darden
Business Publishing, University of Virginia, UVA-E-0020
Activity: Choose film/literature/incident to present in session
4 through one framework
Session 4: Application of Ethical Approaches
Objective: To apply ethical approaches in resolving workplace
dilemmas
Activity: Analysis of the write ups submitted by
participants
Module III: Corporate Governance and Accountability (special
session to be handled by Prof Rishikesha T Krishnan)
Module Objective: To critically examine and discuss various
facets of corporate governance
Session 5:Corporate Governance
Objective:To enable grappling with the questions like in whose
interest the corporate should be run and what group/groups ought to
have ultimate decision power?
Reading: None
Case:Pandey Satish C and VermaPramod, World Com Inc; Vikalpa,
Vol 20, No. 2, April-June 2005,pp 137-148
Activity: Group Discussion
Module IV: Corporate Social Responsibility
Module Objective: To analyze and appreciate the ethical issues
in Corporate Social Responsibility
Sessions and Objective
Session 6: Introducing Corporate Responsibility; The origins of
Corporate Responsibility
Objective: To create an awareness of corporate responsibility
which is one of the contested issues in business arena
Reading: Blowfield, Michael and Murray, Alan. Corporate Social
Responsibility. Oxford University Press, 2011, chapter 1 & 2.
Documentary: The Corporation
Session 7: Corporations, Morality, and Corporate Social
Responsibility; Concept of the Corporation: Shareholder vs.
Stakeholder; Corporate Codes.
Objective: To assess the interwoven relationship between
corporations, morality, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Reading: DeGeorge, Richard T., Business Ethics, Pearson
Publication, 2011, chapter 10.
Session8:Various Models of Corporate Social Responsibility
Objective: To create awareness of various models of corporate
social responsibility and Best Practices of CSRReading:
Kleinrichert, Denise. Ethics, Power and Communities: Corporate
Social Responsibility, Journal of Business Ethics 78, pp. 475 485,
2007. Albareda, Laura et al., The Changing role of Governments in
Corporate Social Responsibility: Drivers and Responses, Business
Ethics: A European Review 17, no. 4, 2008 Ghosh, B N. Business
Ethics and Corporate Governance, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private
Ltd., 2012, chapter 12.
Case: Corporate Social Responsibility at ONGC Ltd., IBS Centre
for Management Research, Case Code: BECG066, 2006.
Research Exercise: Investigate the companys website and set out
the main aspects of their corporate responsibility, sustainability,
or corporate citizenship programme. What are the benefits and
drawbacks of the corporation taking over these
responsibilities?
Session 9:Corporate Social Responsibility in Private and Public
Corporations
Objective: To assess the CSR initiatives in companies whether
these initiatives are well-worn or not. ToDiscuss and deliberate on
the role of industry in solving public problems, especially in the
contextin the context of a developing society where the government
is constrained by various limitations infulfilling its roleReading:
Porter, Michael E. and Kramer, Mark R. Creating Shared Value, HBR
January-February, 2011.
Case: Rishikesha T Krishnana, The Pune Power Model, HBS, IIM B
441
Session 10: Revisit into Ethics, Ethical aspects of Corporate
Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Objective: To gauge whether the participants have inculcated the
ethical perspectives Corporate Social Responsibility and
Case: None
Activity: Analysis and class discussion on the write ups
submitted by students
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