Business Ethics Syllabus Unit 1: Introduction to Business Ethics: Ethics-Meaning , Definition, Objectives of Ethics, Types of EthicsPersonal, Professional and

Managerial, Types of Managerial EthicsImmoral Management, Moral Management, Amoral Management, Morals-Definition and Meaning ,Business Ethics-Meaning, Definition, Nature of Business Ethics, Scope of Business Ethics, Importance/ Purpose of Business Ethics and Morals in an Organisation, Benefits of Business Ethics Management,

Myths about Business Ethics, Essential Principles of a Highly Ethical Organisation, Approaches for building commitment to ethics among employees, Code of Ethics-Meaning, Value-Meaning, Characteristics of Values, Importance of Values, Types of Values-Instrumental and Terminal Values, Importance of Values in Organisations, Ethical Decision Making Process, Importance of Ethics in Organisation -In Human Resource Management, In Finance and Accounting, In Marketing and Consumer Protection Unit 2: Ethical Issues in Workplace: 1. Corruption and Bribery Corruption-Meaning, Definition, Manifestations of Corruption, Tests of Judgement on Corruption-The Test of Conscience, The Test of the greatest good the greatest number, Corruption Schemes, Players in a Corruption Scheme, Causes of Corruption,

Bribery-Meaning, Definition, Difference between Bribery and Gift, Strategies for combating bribery, 2. Deception (Fraud) Fraud-Definition, Meaning, Acts that constitute Fraud 3. Theft Theft-Meaning, Definition, Role of Ethics in protecting company assets, Areas of Employee Theft, 4. Unfair DiscriminationMeaning, Definition, Ways of Discrimination at workplace-Job discrimination, Gender discrimination, Pay and Promotion Discrimination, Discrimination based on disability, Discrimination based on pregnancy and reproductive status, Age Discrimination, Geographical Origin Discrimination, Discriminatory Recruitment Practices, Discriminatory Selection and Promotion, Discrimination based on Physical characteristics 5. Sexual Harassment at Workplace-Meaning, Definition, Types of Sexual Harassment, Effects of Sexual Harassment, Steps to be taken by employers to prevent sexual harassment, Applicable laws in India to penalise Sexual Harassment 6. Coercion-Meaning, Definition, Forms of Coercion in an Industry, Unit 3-Social Responsibility of Business: CSR-Meaning, Definition , Importance of Social Responsibility in Business, Benefits of Social Responsibility, Criteria for determining social responsibility of business, areas of social responsibility of business, Unit 4 Social Accounting and Social Audit

Meaning, Definition, Objectives, Need, Elements, Advantages, contents Social Audit Meaning, Definition, Features, Objectives, Need and Benefits, Limitations Unit 5 Business Ethics in a Global Economy Globalisation-Meaning, Definition, The Approaches for Global Companies-Absolutism and Relativism, Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights, code of ethics meaning and code of ethics of global companies nominated and awarded as Ethispheres World s Most Ethical Companies 2012- Starbucks Coffee Company, Marks and Spencer, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, Tata Steel Ltd, Time Warner inc, Marriott International inc, Loreal, Pepsico, e bay inc, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Microsoft, Accenture, Standard Chartered Bank,