2025/2026
Этическое лидерство и социальная ответственность
Статус:
Маго-лего
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Роулинс Томас Эдвард
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Current research findings on leadership provide a picture of a process that is far more sophisticated and complex than the often simplistic view presented in some of the popular books on leadership. In fact, there are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are people who have tried to define it. The same picture can be found in books on ethics and on social responsibility. This course is designed not to tell you what ethical leadership or social responsibility is, but rather to provide a theoretical framework that you will apply to current business cases in order to help you develop, systematise and justify your own understanding of social responsibility and you own approach to ethical leadership.
Learning Objectives
- To develop, systematise and openly defend your own position on the social responsibility and your own approach to ethical leadership
- To evaluate how ethical leadership impacts the Triple Bottom Line;
- To balance consequentialism and deontology in leadership decisions
- To effectively align a company's ethical values and principles with strategic goals in the process of leadership
- To conceptualise and operationalise the virtue of acting with integrity as the supreme quality of a leader.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To be able to clearly articulate and defend your own position in an ethical debate;
- To be able to question your managerial authority when it prevents the organisation from doing the right thing;
- To be able to recognise and act when a lack of integrity is corrupting your organisation;
- To be able to present a case for social responsibility in business and in management.
Course Contents
- Ethical Leadership and Social Responsibility - a conceptual framework
- 2. Socially irresponsible management? — the case of Jack Welch at GE 1981-2000
- 3. Value-based management: Decision-making based on the maximisation of value. Shareholder v Stakeholder
- 4. CSR and sustainability: The Triple Bottom Line
- 5. Ethical Decision-making and the pressure of Expected Utility
- 6. The Complementarity of Utilitarianism and Deontology in Ethical Decision-Making
- 7. Core values and the Sponsors’ Dilemma
- 8. The impact of managerial authority on individual and organisational integrity
Assessment Elements
- Written Assignment on social responsibility
- Video Justifications (1-minute video)
- Lecture Attendance Requirements- Attendance fewer than 4 out of 12 lectures caps the final grade at 4/10. - Attendance fewer than 8 out of 12 lectures caps the final grade at 7/10. Full attendance on all lectures results in a bonus of 0.04 towards your final grade
- Group Case Study (4 seminars)The group case study takes part in class and is used to apply theory from the lectures to a current issue or event relating to ethical leadership and social responsibility
- Final Exam (20 multiple-choice questions)The exam is a multiple choice test of the materials from the lectures
- Written Assignment on your approach to Ethical Leadership
- Video Justification
- Individual case study
- Case study in class
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.12 * Case study in class + 0.2 * Final Exam (20 multiple-choice questions) + 0.12 * Group Case Study (4 seminars) + 0.12 * Individual case study + 0.04 * Lecture Attendance Requirements + 0.15 * Video Justification + 0.15 * Video Justifications (1-minute video) + 0.05 * Written Assignment on social responsibility + 0.05 * Written Assignment on your approach to Ethical Leadership
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, & Alexei Marcoux. (2018). The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics. Routledge.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edoardo Zamuner, Ermelinda Valentina Di Lascio, & D. K. Levy. (2014). Lecture on Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics : Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1850087
- Weber, M., & Tribe, K. (2019). Economy and Society : A New Translation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2012211