School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Business Ethics
  • Unit Code

    MAN3810
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Julie Anne CREWS

Description

The world in which we live has become more complex. Business now operates in a global economy and with that a world in which nations are more connected and interdependent than at any time in history. This is transforming the relationships business has with many individuals and organisations in society. There is now greater demand on business to demonstrate practices that are environmentally, economically and socially responsible. Consumers also have an expectation that the products and services they use are produced in an ethically and socially responsible manner. This unit examines the corporate governance and ethical challenges facing global operations and how this is influencing the nature of strategic decision making by business leaders. This unit combines the study of principal theories of ethics and governance through business cases to develop a critical awareness of the nature and importance of responsible corporate practices.

Equivalent Rule

MAN3105 and MAN3611

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise common ethical issues in the contemporary business context.
  2. Appraise personal values and compare with professional and organisational values.
  3. Analyse and critically evaluate the responsibilities business has to its stakeholders; including consumers, employees and the community.
  4. Assess and provide solutions/recommendations on how corporations meet their economic and legal obligations while being socially responsible.

Unit Content

  1. Government, regulation and business ethics.
  2. Introduction to ethics and the business environment.
  3. Framing business ethics: Corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship.
  4. Ecology and sustainable development in global business.
  5. Normative ethical theories.
  6. Descriptive ethical theories.
  7. Managing business ethics.
  8. Shareholders, employees and consumer ethics.
  9. Suppliers, competitors and business ethics.
  10. Civil society and business ethics.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly three hour seminar. Participation in both group and individual activities is a requirement, and in-class discussions are based on weekly lectures, case studies and reflective journal writing. Online students will access the program via LMS. Regular online access is required. Students will participate in online discussions based on weekly recorded lectures, case studies and reflective journal writing.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
PresentationGroup Presentations 30%
TestMultiple Choice30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
PresentationGroup Presentations30%
TestMultiple Choice30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Business Ethics
  • Unit Code

    MAN3810
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Julie Anne CREWS

Description

The world in which we live has become more complex. Business now operates in a global economy and with that a world in which nations are more connected and interdependent than at any time in history. This is transforming the relationships business has with many individuals and organisations in society. There is now greater demand on business to demonstrate practices that are environmentally, economically and socially responsible. Consumers also have an expectation that the products and services they use are produced in an ethically and socially responsible manner. This unit examines the corporate governance and ethical challenges facing global operations and how this is influencing the nature of strategic decision making by business leaders. This unit combines the study of principal theories of ethics and governance through business cases to develop a critical awareness of the nature and importance of responsible corporate practices.

Equivalent Rule

MAN3105 and MAN3611

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise common ethical issues in the contemporary business context.
  2. Appraise personal values and compare with professional and organisational values.
  3. Analyse and critically evaluate the responsibilities business has to its stakeholders; including consumers, employees and the community.
  4. Assess and provide solutions/recommendations on how corporations meet their economic and legal obligations while being socially responsible.

Unit Content

  1. Government, regulation and business ethics.
  2. Introduction to ethics and the business environment.
  3. Framing business ethics: Corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship.
  4. Ecology and sustainable development in global business.
  5. Normative ethical theories.
  6. Descriptive ethical theories.
  7. Managing business ethics.
  8. Shareholders, employees and consumer ethics.
  9. Suppliers, competitors and business ethics.
  10. Civil society and business ethics.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly three hour seminar. Participation in both group and individual activities is a requirement, and in-class discussions are based on weekly lectures, case studies and reflective journal writing. Online students will access the program via LMS. Regular online access is required. Students will participate in online discussions based on weekly recorded lectures, case studies and reflective journal writing.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
PresentationGroup Presentations 30%
TestMultiple Choice30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
PresentationGroup Presentations30%
TestMultiple Choice30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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