Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics

General

• Code: 603
• Semester: 6th
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Special Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Lectures (3)
• ECTS Units: 5
• Course homepage: https://elearning.cm.ihu.gr/course/view.php?id=877
• Instructors: Papafloratos Triantafyllos
• Class Schedule:
  • Thu 12:00 - 15:00: Αίθουσα 102
• Exams Schedule:
  • 11/06/2024, 09:00 - 11:00:

Course Contents

• Introduction to business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
• The concept of ethics in the context of economics and business.
• The social responsibility of businesses.
• Stakeholder management.
• Introduction to moral philosophy.
• Making ethical decisions in business.
• Ways of developing corporate responsibility in businesses: The values and mission of the business.
• Ways to develop corporate responsibility in business:: Ethics programs and the code of ethics.
• Measuring and evaluating corporate ethics and social responsibility.
• Corporate governance.
• Corporate responsibility in the marketplace: relationships with customers and competitors.
• Corporate responsibility within the organization: employee relations.
• The company’s relationship with the state, local communities and the natural environment.

Educational Goals

The course material aims to demonstrate the strategic importance of socially responsible and ethical behavior for the success of businesses and the well-being of societies. It includes topics related to the concepts of business ethics and corporate social responsibility in modern reality, which includes diverse requirements, such as the need for economic efficiency and the obligation of ethical and socially responsible behavior.Finally, the aim of the course includes raising students’ awareness of ethical and socially responsible behavior by businesses, either as recipients of the business’s actions (e.g. consumers), or as future executives/employees of businesses.

Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:

• Recognize the concepts and distinguish the trends in the issues of business ethics and social responsibility of companies.
• Recognize the forms of corporate social responsibility of businesses and to identify, describe and plan business actions that respond to them.
• Recognize the forms of ethical business behavior and to identify, describe and plan business actions that respond to them.
• Develop and synthesize arguments for (or against) corporate social responsibility and ethics.
• Recognize, explain and manage ethical dilemmas that arise in business, using ethical theories and other models of ethical decision-making.
• Manage and resolve problems that arise in the company’s relationships with stakeholders.

General Skills

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Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Online guidance.
• Slides Projection in the classroom.
• Use of E-mail and onlne communication systems.
• Use of e-learning system (moodle).

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

to be filled

Recommended Bibliography

1. Debbie Haski – Leventhal, Στρατηγική Εταιρική Κοινωνική Ευθύνη, Εκδότης: Τζιόλα, 2018.
2. Μαρία Βαξεβανίδου, Εταιρική Κοινωνική Ευθύνη, Εκδότης: Σταμούλη Α.Ε., 2011.

Related Research Journals

1. Journal of Business Ethics.
2. Business Ethics Quarterly.
3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.
4. Business Ethics: A European Review.
5. Business and Society.
6. Business and Society Review.
7. Social Responsibility Journal.
8. Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability.