BSA-130: Good Governance and Social Responsibility
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This course is designed to inform and stimulate thinking on issues of ethics and social responsibility encountered in business. The material covered is intended to prepare students to recognize and manage ethical and social responsibility issues as they arise and help them recognize the standards of integrity and professionalism. The overall course objectives are to increase awareness of the ethical dimension of business conduct, to contribute insight into the professional standards and responsibility of students to their future careers; to develop analytical skills for identifying and resolving ethical and social responsibility issues in business; and to practice decsion making about ethical and social responsibility issues.
Course Description:
This course is designed to inform and stimulate thinking on issues of ethics and social responsibility encountered in business. The material covered is intended to prepare students to recognize and manage ethical and social responsibility issues as they arise and help them recognize the standards of integrity and professionalism. The overall course objectives are to increase awareness of the ethical dimension of business conduct, to contribute insight into the professional standards and responsibility of students to their future careers; to develop analytical skills for identifying and resolving ethical and social responsibility issues.
Pre-requisite:
MG 101 (Principles of Management and Organization) and BL 103 (Law on Business Associations)
Objectives: At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. To increase student awareness of business ethics and social responsibility;
2. To recognize gray areas in ethical standards and be able to formulate and implement correct decisions;
3. To recognize that integrity must be applied in all situations;
4. To be able to understand and apply the steps to sound ethical decision making in business.
References:
Trevino, Linda K. And Nelson, A . Katherine
Managing Business Ethics
United States of America: John Wiley and Sons, Inc
Velasquez, Manuel
Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
Singapore: Pearson Education, 2000
Course Requirements: All School requirements must be complied with.
Grading System:
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Prelims
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Finals
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Average quizzes (a news report is equal to ½ of Quiz)
Recitation
Attendance, class behaviour, recitation
Formal examination
Total
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17%
5
3
20
45
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22%
5
3
25
55
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