This course aims to help students acquire new knowledge and skills in ethics, corporate governance and business law, as well as to empower them to make responsible and ethical decisions.
The numerous scandals that have enmeshed the national and international business scene in the last decades show how essential the study of ethics, corporate governance and business law is. Our time is characterized by greatness and misery. Efficiency in technologies, organizations, economic exchanges and management practices has led to tremendous progress and increased wealth in many countries. However, these advances have also created major issues in terms of human dignity, social justice, working conditions, access to employment, wealth distribution, technological risks and environmental sustainability. In organizations, many people are looking for guidelines, practices and tools to make their decisions and activities effective, ethical and lawful.
Theories on organizational ethics
Ethical decision-making
Ethical and responsible leadership
Corporate governance
Agency theory
Stakeholder theory
Business law
Legal structures of organizations
Property contracts and obligations
Issues of ethics governance and law in organizations
Fraud corruption and deviant behaviors in organizations