Ethics & Future of Business (Lecture Notes & Summary Chapters & Articles, passed with a 9)
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Course
Ethics & The Future of Business (6314M0507Y)
Institution
Universiteit Van Amsterdam (UvA)
Passed the exam with a 9.
This document was my bible during the course, took notes during the lectures, complemented these with the lecture slides.
When readings were more complicated I summarized those as well in the document. All required chapters of Crane are included and all relevant ar...
Course Objectives
1. Understand, evaluate, and criticize core ethical theories and models of ethical decision-
making
2. Re ect and improve their own decision-making towards value-based and stakeholder
approaches; explain and criticize leading concepts and theories within corporate
responsibility and sustainability;
3. learn and analyze key ethics and sustainability themes within your chosen specialization;
4. re ect and apply learned concepts and theories to social and environmental issues that
organizations face.
- 60% Exam -> 4x MC, 4x De nition, 1x Open
- 40% Assignment
Morality, ethics and ethical theory
-Morality is humans’ ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
-Ethics is the systematic study of morality.
-Ethical theories are principles and rules that determine right and wrong in different situations.
-Today we focus on normative ethics -> how we ought to behave
-“Ethics rationalizes morality, to produce ethical theory that can be applied to any situation.
-Morality -> Ethics -> Ethical Theory -> Potential solutions to ethical problems
Ethics
- An on-going discussion about morality with a very long history
- Ethics typically examines right and wrong from the perspective of a human being
(anthropocentric), instead of, nature.
- Key questions include:
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