Business Ethics

By Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 3833

This course is designed to develop in the students an understanding of the concept of Business Ethics and its application in business decision making with emphasize on CSR and sustainable business practices in the age of Globalization.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any interested learner

PREREQUISITES : Graduation,Basic understanding of business management

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : For sustainability of any kind of business, knowledge of Business Ethics helps in proper decision making for personal integrity and social responsibility. So this course is expected to have high industry support

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	18 Jan 2021
End Date :	09 Apr 2021
Enrollment Ends :	01 Feb 2021
Exam Date :	24 Apr 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Business Ethics: An overview

Week 2: Framing Business Ethics- CSR, stakeholders and Citizenship

Week 3: Ethical theories

Week 4: Tools and Techniques of Business Ethics Management , Role of various agencies in ensuring ethics in corporation

Week 5: Contextualizing Business Ethics- Corporate Governance, Accounting and finance

Week 6: Employees and Business Ethics

Week 7: Consumers and Business Ethics

Week 8: Suppliers, Competitors and business ethics

Week 9: Civil Society and Business Ethics

Week 10: Government, Regulation and business ethics

Week 11: Environment and Business Ethics

Week 12: IT and Ethics

Books and references

None

Instructor bio

Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay

IIT Kharagpur

SusmitaMukhopadhayay, Associate Professor, VGSOM (Ph.D.,Calcutta University, Fellow ISI, Kolkata)

Susmita Mukhopadhyay's areas of specialization include Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology, Business Values and Ethics, and Organizational Behaviour. A gold medalist in M.Sc., she is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award and Search of Excellence Award. She was selected for the Microfinance Researchers Alliance Fellow Program Centre for microfinance, Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai, in 2009.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 April 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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