Syllabus
1. Fundamental ethics and its basic concepts (conscience, ethos, etc.)2. Managerial ethics in the system of applied, professional and professional ethics.3. Protestant ethics and the "spirit of capitalism".4. "Time is money" - "Credit is money" (B. Franklin and Protestant ethics in the American version).5. Kant's practical reason and his categorical imperative.6. Aretology - "catalogues" of virtues in history7. Applied aretology: the virtues of the professional - the ten C's of today's manager.8. Deontology - the creation of the "desater" and the emergence of ethical codes.9. Comparison of codes of ethics with a focus on the codes of corporate, managerial and professional societies.10. Detailed analysis of the Council of Europe Code of Sports Ethics and the codes of the World Economic Forum and the Czech Management Association.11 - 12 Corruption as a crime and an ethical "trap".13 -
14. Mobbing, harassment and other forms of unfair behaviour.
Annotation
Aim of the study is to introduce students to basics of ethics and to applied managerial ethics. In further, students will be acquainted also with:
- relation between ethics and other humanities;
- aretology and deontology;
- Kant´s categorical imperative;
- key dilemmas of ethics in the field of management and business.