14MBAHR408 Workplace Ethics syllabus for MBA


Unit-1 8 hours

Workplace Ethics: Introduction, Needs, Principals, Development of Personal Ethics, WorkplaceEthics for Employees-Ethical behaviour in workplace- Professionalism, Ethical violations byemployees, Employee Attitude and Ethics, Employee Etiquettes. Benefits of ethics inWorkplace- employee commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, profits

Unit-2 8 hours

Professionalism at Workplace: Unethical Conduct for employees and employers. Factorsleading to Unethical Behaviours. Different unethical behaviours. Measures to control unethicalbehaviours. Rewarding ethical behaviour

Unit-3 10 hours

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance: Overview of Business Ethics, CorporateGovernance, Ethical issues in human resource management- The principal of ethical hiring,Firing, worker safety, whistle blowing, Equality of opportunity, Discrimination, Ethics andremuneration, Ethics in retrenchment. Ethical Dilemmas at workplace, Ethical issues in globalbusiness, corporate responsibility of employers.

Unit-4 8 hours

Workplace Privacy & Ethics: Watching what you say and what you do in the workplace,Hardware, Software and Spyware, Plagiarism and Computer Crimes, Convenience and Death ofPrivacy, Defence of employee privacy rights

Unit-5 8 hours

Teamwork in the Workplace & Ethics: Teams, Elements of team, Stages of teamdevelopment, team meetings, team rules, and teams work and professional responsibility, rules ofprofessional responsibility, ASME code of ethics.

Unit-6 8 hours

Managing Change in Workplace through Ethics: Introduction to Change Management,Models of change, the Ethics of Managing Change, the role of ethics and responsibilities inleading innovation and change, ethics based model for change management, ethics and risks ofchange management

Unit-7 6 hours

Ethics, Discrimination and Harassment at Workplace: Discrimination, sexual harassment,Creating awareness about workplace harassment, Vishaka Dutta vs. State of Rajasthan –Supreme Court directions, Compulsory workplace guidelines.Practical Components:• To solve case studies on Workplace Ethics• To visit organizations and find out the problems and causes for unethical behavior atworkplace.• To visit organizations and find out the measures adopted to control unethical behavior ofemployees.• To compare and contrast the various ethical codes of conduct practiced in organizations.• To study the recent cases on breach of workplace privacy.

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