Business Ethics and Corporate Governance syllabus
Browse the units
Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
8 units
1 Introduction to Business Ethics and Corporate Governance (6 LHs)
- Business Ethics – Concept of ethics
- Concept of business ethics
- Myths about business ethics
- Causes and consequences of ethical problems in business
- Major theories and frameworks governing business ethics
- Corporate Governance – Concept of corporate governance
- Essential elements of good corporate governance
- Evolution of corporate governance
- Similarities and differences between business ethics and corporate governance
- Significance of business ethics and corporate governance
2 Ethical Issues in Business (8 LHs)
- Recognizing an ethical issue (ethical awareness)
- Foundational values for identifying ethical issues
- Concept of ethical issues and dilemmas
- Emerging ethical issues and dilemmas in business
- Ethical issues in functional areas of business
- Ethical issues in finance
- Ethical issues in informational technology
- Environmental ethics
- Making ethics work in organizations
3 Ethical Decision-Making (5 LHs)
4 Corporate Governance Theories and Models (6 LHs)
6 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Codes and Standards (7 LHs)
7 Framing Business Ethics from Corporate Responsibility Perspective (6 LHs)
8 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Nepal (4 LHs)
1. Introduction to Business Ethics and Corporate Governance (6 LHs)
- Business Ethics – Concept of ethics
- Business Ethics – Concept of ethics
- Concept of business ethics
- Concept of business ethics
- Myths about business ethics
- Myths about business ethics
- Causes and consequences of ethical problems in business
- Causes and consequences of ethical problems in business
- Major theories and frameworks governing business ethics
- Major theories and frameworks governing business ethics
- Corporate Governance – Concept of corporate governance
- Corporate Governance – Concept of corporate governance
- Essential elements of good corporate governance
- Essential elements of good corporate governance
- Evolution of corporate governance
- Evolution of corporate governance
- Similarities and differences between business ethics and corporate governance
- Similarities and differences between business ethics and corporate governance
- Significance of business ethics and corporate governance
- Significance of business ethics and corporate governance.
2. Ethical Issues in Business (8 LHs)
- Recognizing an ethical issue (ethical awareness)
- Recognizing an ethical issue (ethical awareness)
- Foundational values for identifying ethical issues
- Foundational values for identifying ethical issues: Integrity, honesty, and fairness
- Concept of ethical issues and dilemmas
- Concept of ethical issues and dilemmas
- Emerging ethical issues and dilemmas in business
- Emerging ethical issues and dilemmas in business
- Ethical issues in functional areas of business
- Ethical issues in functional areas of business: Ethical issues in marketing and sales
- Ethical issues in finance
- Ethical issues in finance
- Ethical issues in informational technology
- Ethical issues in informational technology
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental ethics
- Whistle blowing
- Making ethics work in organizations
- Making ethics work in organizations.
3. Ethical Decision-Making (5 LHs)
- Concept of ethical decision making
- Concept of ethical decision making
- Framework for ethical decision making in business
- Framework for ethical decision making in business: Ethical issue intensity
- individual factors
- Organizational factors
- organizational factors
- opportunity
- Business ethics intentions, behavior, and evaluations
- and business ethics intentions, behavior, and evaluations
- Using the ethical decision-making model to improve ethical decisions
- Using the ethical decision-making model to improve ethical decisions
- Normative considerations in ethical decision-making
- Normative considerations in ethical decision-making.
4. Corporate Governance Theories and Models (6 LHs)
- Theories and philosophies of corporate governance
- Theories and philosophies of corporate governance: Agency theory, transaction cost economics, stewardship theory, stakeholder theory, and resource dependency theory
- Corporate governance models
- Corporate governance models: Anglo-American model, German model, Japanese model, Indian model, and the Asian family-based model.
5. Corporate Governance Structures (6 LHs)
- The scope of corporate governance
- The scope of corporate governance
- Role of board of directors
- Role of board of directors (BOD), auditors, management team, shareholders, government and regulators, and other stakeholders in corporate governance
- Corporate governance failure cases (such as Enron) and lessons from them
- Corporate governance failure cases (such as Enron) and lessons from them
- Emerging trends in corporate governance
- Emerging trends in corporate governance.
6. Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Codes and Standards (7 LHs)
- Code of ethics
- Code of ethics: Concept and importance
- Contents of a code of ethics
- Contents of a code of ethics
- Code of conducts in Nepal
- Code of conducts in Nepal: FNCCI's business code of conduct, 2061 and NBI's business code of conduct concepts, 2070
- Key corporate governance provisions in prevailing Nepalese Company Act and Nepal Rastra…
- Key corporate governance provisions in prevailing Nepalese Company Act and Nepal Rastra Bank’s Unified Directives
- International standards related to business ethics and corporate governance
- and International standards related to business ethics and corporate governance: United Nation’s Global Compact (UNGC), SA 8000, ILO standards, OECD principles of corporate governance, and ISO 37000.
7. Framing Business Ethics from Corporate Responsibility Perspective (6 LHs)
- Law, business ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility
- Law, business ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility: similarities and differences
- Concept and importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Concept and importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Major theoretical perspectives on CSR
- Major theoretical perspectives on CSR – Friedman’s shareholder theory, Freeman’s stakeholder theory, Carroll’s CSR pyramid
- Elkington’s triple bottom line approach
- Elkington’s triple bottom line approach, Porter and Kramer’s creating shared value (CSV) approach
- Legal provisions governing corporate social responsibility in Nepal
- Legal provisions governing corporate social responsibility in Nepal.
8. Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Nepal (4 LHs)
- Business ethics issues in Nepal
- Business ethics issues in Nepal
- Way forward for improving ethical business practices in Nepal
- Way forward for improving ethical business practices in Nepal
- Corporate governance practices in Nepalese family-owned businesses
- Corporate governance practices in Nepalese family-owned businesses, BFIs, and other business sectors
- Issues and challenges of corporate governance in Nepal
- Issues and challenges of corporate governance in Nepal
- Way forward for improving corporate governance practices in Nepal
- Way forward for improving corporate governance practices in Nepal.