BEY Business Ethics Syllabus Sciences Po

BEY Business Ethics Syllabus Sciences Po

Collège universitaire de Sciences Po
Etudes ibériques et latino-américaines,
Campus de Poitiers
Christoph Bey
Enseignement d’ouverture
Printemps 2009-2010
Business Ethics
Méthodes pédagogiques :
Cours enseigné en anglais
Cours magistraux et séminaires (études de cas)
Objectifs pédagogiques :
- make students aware of potential ethical conflicts in business, economics, and organisations
- introduction of several ethical approaches and their use in management
- application of a practical approach for resolving ethical conflicts in day-to-day management
Programme Syllabus (indicatif) :
- Definitions and international comparison of different approaches :
(ethics, moral, deontology) – human rights as the foundation of ethics
- A tool for resolving conflicts – individual sentiment and responsibility or societal
legitimation?
- Components of modern ethics : organisation ethics, sustainable development, corporate
social responsibility
- An anticipating ethics for a technological civilisation – future generations, the precautionary
principle and its limits
- Different theories and their application (utilitarianism, the categorical imperative,
deontology). example of global warming
- Ethics in organisations: ethical people within a legal structure – can a firm be considered
ethical?
- 4 types of managers : the « citizen in organisations » and three types of deficient ethical
behaviour
- Ethics as a clarification of the employment contract
An organisation’s stakeholders – definitions and management
- Shareholder value or stakeholder value as a company goal?
- Business ethics and the activities of multinational enterprise – cultural relativism or
universalism?
Modes d’évaluation :
Examen écrit : 50%
Dissertation ou étude de cas : 50%
Quelques repères bibliographiques :
Bowie, N. (1999) Business ethics – a Kantian perspective. Blackwell, Oxford.
Davies, P. (éd.) (1997) Current issues in business ethics. Routledge, Londres.
Hodgson, B. (2001) Economics as moral science. Springer Verlag, Berlin etc.
Jonas, H. (1984) The imperative of responsibility. The University of Chicago Press.
Mercier, S. (2004) L’éthique dans les enterprises. Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2e éd.
Velasquez, M. (2006) Business ethics – concepts and cases. Prentice Hall, 6e éd.