ISLA Santarém 11305

Ethics and Social Responsibility

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  Discusses ethical challenges in business, codes of conduct, and corporate social responsibility, fostering skills to analyze ethical issues in HR and produce applied research. 
• ProgramaProgramme

    1. Challenges of Business Ethics 1.1 Evolution of concepts and practices of business ethics 1.2 Codes of Business Ethics 2. Ethical Issues in Economics and Business 3. Specific Issues in Business Ethics 3.1 Competition issues 3.2 Production and prices 3.3 Contracts and corruption 3.4 Human resources. Universal standards of conduct for the valuation of work and workers 3.5 Advertising 4. New political and social trends to raise awareness of the ethical values of business executives 5. Corporate Social Responsibility
• ObjectivosObjectives

   O1. Address issues of behavioral ethics in the business environment; O2. Describe the main ethical problems in business, by analyzing their relevance and how to deal with them; O3. Present and discuss the importance of ethical conduct in the perspective of valuing work and workers; O4. Analyze the issues related to corporate social responsibility and the instruments available for their implementation; O5. Provide the acquisition of skills related to the development of applied research. At the end of the curricular unit the student should be able to: C1. To discuss the problems related to the ethical issues that are posed to the management of people; C2. Produce and present written works following the norms of scientific writing.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Bachnik, K. et al. (Eds.). (2022). Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: From Values to Impact. Routledge. Dathe, at al. (2022). Corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and environmental social governance (ESG): Approaches to ethical management. Springer Neves, J. C. das. (2023). Introdução à Ética Empresarial (2ª ed.). Principia. Nunes, C. B. (2024). A Ética Empresarial e os Fundos Socialmente Responsáveis. Vida Económica.
• MetodologiaMethodology

  1. Active methodologies, privileging analysis, reflection and synthesis (presentations and discussions by students), based on case studies. 2. It is intended that students acquire skills and competencies aimed at developing applied research work or project work, and throughout the semester they will be called upon to research, analyze and produce work where these skills and competencies will be developed.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Optional
• EstágioInternship

  Não
• AvaliaçãoEvaluation

  A avaliação curricular é coerente com as metodologias definidas para a unidade curricular sendo concretizada através da combinação dos
  seguintes instrumentos: - Participação nas aulas, incluindo a apresentação de trabalhos (30%) - Realização de trabalho final individual
  (70%). Os estudantes que não se submeteram à avaliação curricular ou não obtiveram aprovação na mesma submetem-se à avaliação
  final concretizada através de uma prova escrita (100%).