COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ETHIC IN ECONOMY AND WORK LIFE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3137 ETHIC IN ECONOMY AND WORK LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

To internalisation of ethic behavior and approach in economic activities and working life

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain concepts of morality, individual and social morality, ang general ethic. (1,2, 6,)
2   To adopt importance of ethic behavior, application and approach in economy anf working life (1,2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
3   To introduce corporate social responsibilities areas. (1,2, 3, 6, 8)
4   To introduce of national and international legislation about (1,2, 3, 6, 8)
5   To know policies and strategies about preventing unethical behaviors and applications (1,2, 3, 6, 7, 8)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concepts of morality, ethic and unethic behavior
2 Historical frame of relationships between ethic and economy
3 Work ethic, business ethic and approaches
4 Globalization and ethic problems
5 Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethic
6 Ethic Behavior and Applications in working life/private sector
7 Ethic Behavior and Applications in working life/public sector
8 Examination
9 Examination
10 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Discrimination
11 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Sexual harassment
12 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Mobbing, bulling, workplace terror
13 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Corruption, bribe, tax evasion, unfair copmpetition.
14 Occupational, Organizational and International Ethics Codes

Recomended or Required Reading


Adrian Furnham and John Taylor, Dark Side of Workplace, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Max Weber and Talcott Parsons The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 2010.

Barbara G. Cox, Robert W. Hunt and Matthew B. Hun, Ethics at Work (NetEffect Series), 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Debate
Papers
Examination

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.50 +MTE * 0.50
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Preparing presentations 1 1 1
Midterm 1 7 7
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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