Code
MUFF ESG 2201
Level
L2
Field
Environnement, Social et Gouvernance
Language
Anglais/English
ECTS Credits
3
Class hours
10
Total student load
40
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Langues et Sciences Humaines
Educational team
Introduction to the module
Business ethics is an important part of any industry. Learners or managers, unfamiliar with many ethical challenges, behaviors, or regulations will find themselves struggling in business industries that include finance, accounting or human resource management, marketing and retail. Today's managers must necessarily concern themselves with ethical issues, because unethical behavior creates legal risks and damage to businesses as well as employees and consumers. Business ethics have become an integral part of business education in general. A learner or manager who is well-versed in ethical behavior in practices, not only in the domestic market but internationally, will find him or herself better prepared to deal with issues or situations that may arise that don't always involve easy answers or decisions.
The main goal of this course is to provide tools necessary to help learners learn the important dimensions of business ethics. Using a managerial framework, we will explain how ethics can be integrated into strategic business decisions. In addition, this course addresses the complex environment of ethical decision making in organizations and real-life issues. Finally, it is an overview of the concepts, processes, mandatory, core, and voluntary business practices associated with successful corporate governance.
Learning goals/Programme objectives
- LG2 Having the ability to manage uncertainty and complexity with accuracy and rigor
- LG3 Having the foundations of responsible and sustainable management
- LG4 Having access to different cross disciplinary management approaches and tools
- LG5 Being open (minded) to others and to the world and looking for positive societal impact
Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes
- 2.2 - Explore solutions, decisions, and their relative and absolute impacts
- 2.3 - Identify optimal solution(s) and priorities toward implementation
- 2.4 - Implement a plan, prepare for changes, and measure the success of actions with regard to strategy and stakeholder
- 3.1 - Understand and employ basic concepts, knowledge and theories related to the discipline
- 3.2 - Apply discipline knowledge appropriately and effectively
- 4.3 - Apply cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools effectively and judiciously
- 4.4 - Evaluate the use of cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools
- 5.1 - Mobilize one's imagination and culture to understand contexts and interpret situations
- 5.4 - Continually leverage skills and knowledge across borders and cultures
Content : structure and schedule
Session 1. Stakeholder Relationship, Social Responsibility, and Corporate Governance : Definition of CSR and its evolution over the years.
(Caroll's Four part Definition,....)/ CSR Cycle (the companies listen to stakeholders-shareholders, the State, banks, employees- Why ? How ?). Focus on all the stakeholders associated with the economic activity of a company (shareholders, State, banks, employees). Session based on general culture, practical cases studied.
Emerging Issues and The Institutionalization of Business Ethics : CSR Pyramid, Equation, and Critics of CSR. During the session, introductory phase using cases.
Ethical Decision Making and Ethical Leadership : Concrete cases studied. The teacher presents concrete business cases (eg: Leroy Merlin, Coca-Cola, the Carbon trade, Walmart, Apple, Canon…).
Séance 2. Individual and Organizational Factors : Active involvement of learners in this session. They must find examples around them, cases, discussion on the cases + Concrete case of the teacher in particular based on the overall learners profile.
Intersession 2 : Working on a group project and Presenting the group project.
Séance 3. Business Ethics in a Global Economy financial knowledge of the global economy: ethical/financial subject including crises (in particular the crises mentioned in the news e.g. Covid). The course taught in this session gives a vision on a global scale.
Intersession 3 : Work, analyse and return documents, resources such as videos, analyse the issues.
Séance 4. Presenting the Group Project.
Intersession 4 : Review the theory and review all the awareness created by the newly acquired from the module.
Final Exam.
Sustainable Development Goals
Such as the module includes business ethics, all sustainable development goals are covered, either by the teacher or by the learners during their projects, personal research, etc.
Number of SDG's addressed among the 17
10
Learning delivery
synchrone
Pedagogical methods
The content is adapted each year according to the receptivity of the learners, their origins and the prior knowledge they may have. In this module, at least 50 business examples are studied.
This course will be through autonomous work and face to face classrooms by 4 learning units. It will be composed of case studies, practical work (exercises) or presential tutorials, oral presentations, debate.
Individual work + Reading of documentary resources (Personal research work to develop general knowledge and thus have specific knowledge and argumentation for the module).
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
100% Final Grade = Group Project Presentation and Report whose homework (50%) + Case Study and Problems Solving Exam (50%). Continuous Control counts for 50%, modulated by the active participation of each learner in group work, group presentation, etc.; with the Final Check which adds 50%.
Continuous assessment is made up of a group project presentation and work on case files. Learners must also pass the final test consisting of a case study and resolution of ethical and social responsibility problems.
The catch-up exam is an examination on table and the grade corresponds to 100% of the final grade.
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
Case and Handbook would be provided in eBook Formats
Learners read texts and articles that they have found themselves, they must look at the solutions that are taken during the conferences (examples COP21, Kyoto references here given by the teacher).
Keywords
Sustainable Development and CSR, Finance, International, Corporate Ethics
Prerequisites
• (B1-S1 HUM 1201)Organization theory is a considerable bonus to understand and validate Business Ethics course. • Introduction to economics (B1-S1 ECO 1209) • Sustainable development and CSR (STR 1206 B1-S1) • Curiosity about current events, varied general culture.