(in Polish) CSR and Business Ethics

obligatory courses

Introduction to the main themes of Business Ethics in an explicitly multicultural and international context and examining the critical discussions of the scope of CSR in general as well as many specific ethical issues of international business. Students will learn the relationship between ethics and effectiveness in business and corporations, basic theoretical concepts of CSR and will how to apply them to analyzes in business practice. Students will familiarize with the basic phenomena in contemporary work related to CSR, limiting / improving the social / environmental impact of business. Student also will know practical CSR tools portfolio, learn how to use them and choose for the right company / problem.

Theoretical models of corporate social responsibility: Richard Eells’s continuum, Clarence Walton’s model, A. B. Carroll’s CSR pyramid, Carroll-Schawrtz’s model, CSR model by Hemingway and Maclagan, D. Jamali’s model, Wayne Visser’s model, T. Ketola’s model, Porter’a and Kramer’s model, stakeholder theory.

Quality of life and quality of life at work: workaholism, organizational stresses (employee’s and managerial, occupational stressors), Monotony of work, stress curve, Quality of life as a function of workload, burnout syndrome, Cases of death / suicide at work / due to work, karoshi, emotional labor, extreme work, toxic success syndrome.

A.Crane, D. Matten, A. McWilliams, J. Moon, D. S. Siegel, The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Oxford University Press, New York 2009.

Jospeh Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010