Management Ethics

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to avoid unethical business behaviour.
• ethical theories and concepts relevant to organisations;
• some of the causes and consequences of unethical behaviour in individuals and organisations;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• recognise the impacts of managerial decisions, both positive and negative, upon other people;
• recognise the mixture of benefits distributed and harms allocated, of rights exercised and rights denied, that constitute an ethical problem;
• to be familiar with some ethical concepts and distinctions.
• apply a logical and structured form of ethical analysis;
• develop skills of problem definition, analysis, problem solving and decision taking;
• gain the confidence to convincingly express your decisions to others;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Show problem-solving skills
• communicate complex issues in a clear and coherent manner.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative feedback will be given in classes. Formative feedback relevant to the individual coursework will be in form of verbal comments on group class exercises that will cover relevant material that will be assessed in final coursework assignment.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.