Management Ethics

Learning Outcomes

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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.