17MBAHR402 Workplace Ethics & Value Systems syllabus for MBA

Workplace Ethics:

Introduction, Needs, Principles, Development of Personal Ethics, Workplace Ethics for Employees-Ethical behavior in workplace- Professionalism, Ethical violations by employees, Employee Attitude and Ethics, Employee Etiquettes. Benefits of ethics in Workplaceemployee commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, profits

Professionalism at Workplace:

Unethical Conduct for employees and employers. Factors leading to Unethical Behaviors. Different unethical behaviors. Measures to control unethical behaviors. Rewarding ethical behavior

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance:

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

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 of Privacy, Defence of employee privacy rights.

Teamwork in the Workplace, Ethics, Discrimination and Harassment at Workplace & Ethics:

Teams, Elements of team, Stages of team development, team meetings, team rules, and teams work and professional responsibility, rules of professional responsibility, ASME code of ethics.Discrimination, sexual harassment, creating awareness about workplace harassment, Vishaka Dutta vs. State of Rajasthan –Supreme Court directions, Compulsory workplace guidelines.

Managing Change in Workplace through Ethics:

Introduction to Change Management, Models of change, the Ethics of Managing Change, the role of ethics and responsibilities in leading innovation and change, ethics based model for change management, ethics and risks of change management

Practical Components:

• To solve case studies on Workplace Ethics
• To visit organizations and find out the problems and causes for unethical behavior at workplace.
• To visit organizations and find out the measures adopted to control unethical behavior of employees.
• To compare and contrast the various ethical codes of conduct practiced in organizations.
• To study the recent cases on breach of workplace privacy.

RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOKS:

• Ethical Theory and Business, Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie and Denis Arnold, 8th Edition.
• Business Ethics – Ethical Decision making and cases O.C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, and Linda Ferrell, 9th Edition, Cengage Learning.
• How technology is compromising Workplace Privacy, Fredrick S Lane 111, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn, 2003
• Ethics in the Workplace, Dean Bredeson, Keith Goree, Cengage Learning, 2011.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• Ethics in 21st Century, Mary Alice Trent, Oral Roberts University, longman.
• Ethics in workplace, Elizabeth P Tierney, Oak tree press
• Ethics in Workplace: System Perspective, William F Roth, Pearson, 2014.
• Ethics in the Workplace: Tools and Tactics for Organizational Transformation - Craig E.
• Johnson - SAGE Publications, 2007
• Business Ethics: Fairness and justice in the workplace - Volume 2 of Business
• Ethics, Fritz Allhoff, ISBN 1412902541, 9781412902540 - SAGE Publications, 2005