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QB3004: BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

What is Business Ethics and why should we care? There is an impression amongst many that Business and Ethics are opposed ideas. This course seeks to address these issues. Exploring Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, tracing its historical origins through to current practice within organizations and the impact on the wider world.  The course covers the fundamental question of what ethics is, granting a context for wider discussion. It looks at why ethics is relevant in the business world today and does so through traditional lectures and interactive learning such as the debates that have proven popular with students.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Ian Robson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Master Of Arts In Business Management (Qatar) or Master Of Arts In Accountancy-Finance (Qatar)
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course covers the fundamental question of what ethics is granting a context for the discussion of business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. It will explore a range of ethical theory and areas of ethical business relationships (employer & employee relationships, business & consumer, business & community, business & environment). In an increasingly global business environment the issues of business ethics and corporate social responsibility are coming to the fore. The business world increasingly realises that how it acts and how it is perceived to act are vital to its continued existence. Corporations around the globe produce elaborate CSR policies designed not only to be read by their employees but also by the wider society. This course will engage with why these issues have become important and why businesses are looking to have an ethically informed workforce.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Exam

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Learning Outcomes
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Feedback

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Word Count 2000
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Group poster

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
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Feedback

Feedback is given on the presentation and the essay.

Oral feedback is given on the tutorial presentation.

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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