Advanced Business Ethics
Within the field of business ethics, the relatively new domain of behavioral business ethics has emerged. In contrast to the normative question of how individuals should decide and behave in business contexts, research in behavioral business ethics is mainly interested in why and how people actuallytake ethical decisions. Specifically, it often aims at understanding personal and situational factors that may cause a gap between an actor’s willingness to behave ethically, and his or her actual behavior. To address its questions, behavioral ethics draws on behavioral psychology, experimental economics, cognitive science and related fields.
The lectures are organized into the following units:
- What is Behavioral Business Ethics?
- An Economic Approach to Morality
- Psychological Models of Ethical Decision Making
- Implications: How to Foster Ethical Behavior in the Workplace
- Reflection: Can Experimental Research Inform Normative Ethics?
Language
The language of instruction is English.
Timeframe and Credits
Teaching: Lecture (videos uploaded weekly) + discussion session (weekly video conference)
Credit points: 5
Credit can be awarded for the following study programs:
- Master Accounting, Taxation, and Finance
- Master Business Information Systems
- Master Business Law and Economic Law
- Master Business Studies
- Master Economics: Data Science and Policy
- Master Empirical Economics and Policy Consulting
- Master Human Resources Management
Assessment
Exam (100%)
Registration
Please register for this course by enrolling into the respective course in Stud.IP. There you will also find further details, such as the exact schedule.
Contact
For questions concerning this course, you may contact Cassandra Grützner.