The course will focus as well on the dynamics and processes within organisations which lead to sound ethical cultures as on those which might encourage ethical flaws and risks of scandals: What are the common principles? What are the differences? How to foster the first scenario and how to avoid the second one?
We will first focus on the risks and potential for ethics at the level of the individual actor, before transitioning into the dynamic reciprocal influence between ethical leadership and ethical organisational culture.
We will also take into consideration the impact of the broader context of business (globalisation, pluralization, specialisation as well as the changing business-society / business-NPO relation) on organisation as well as on individual ethical reasoning and acting.
Finally, group presentations will allow for dynamic class discussion around successful and unsuccessful cases and examples of ethical organisational culture and ethical leadership - as well as on the potential and limitations of “new” economic models such as ‘ethical’ consumption and alternative economies (social entrepreneurship, solidarity economy etc.).
- Teacher: Michaël Gonin