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BMGT20130

Academic Year 2024/2025

Managing Business Ethics (BMGT20130)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
2 (Intermediate)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Dolores Smith Heffernan
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

The purpose of this module is to help you to develop an awareness of the integration of business and ethical issues in organisations and your role in that process of interdependence of both constructs.

It explores the world of Ethics and Business within its philosophical foundations as a basis for understanding some of the key psychological dynamics of human behaviour influencing both our individual and collective decision making in terms of ethics in organisations.

Students will have opportunities to discuss ethical issues in case studies and various ethical dilemmas
which provide the context for a highly participative class dynamic.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

The course aims to achieve the following:-

1.An appreciation of the role of ethics in business.

2.The development of the capacity for identifying ethical issues and their resolution in a business/ organisational context.

3.An understanding of a range of typical ethical dilemmas in business.

4.A grasp of various ethical approaches and theories leading to an increased confidence in using ethical concepts and terminology.

5. Clarity on your own Voice and Values in Ethics and Business.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

124

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures and Action based learning.
Enquiry and problem based learning.
Reflective learning to help integrate the material.
Group work and follow through critical writing .

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Additional Information:
This module is not suitable for those students who have taken BMGT20100 Developing Future Leaders in semester 1.

Equivalents:
Managing Business Ethics (BMGT30260)


 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): The end of semester exam is based on students achieving the module learning outcomes. End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No
70
 No
Group Work Assignment: Group work is based on a combination of student participation throughout the module and the final submission of a group based presentation /assignment . Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No
30
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students are given feedback orally in lectures when presenting or facilitating on a topic of the module.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Thurs 11:00 - 12:50
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