(Un)ethical Decision Making: Alternative and Critical Thinking in Management

Abstract

This course is about decision making processes in complex situations involving financial, relational and ethical problems. First, it provides fundamental tools for addressing problematic situations.Second, it discusses how stakeholders' ethical expectations and social responsibility issues can be effectively implemented and integrated in organizational systems and strategic planning processes.

Objective

- Become familiar with tools and procedures to prevent, identify and resolve corporate fraud and crime in organizations - Understanding the mutual relationship between financial, relational and ethical drivers in managerial decision making - Become familiar with tools and procedures to prevent and resolve corporate crises and scandals - Understanding the opportunities associated with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement and how to integrate CSR in organizational and strategic planning - Create an effective CSR strategic planning process to successfully develop and implement a CSR package - Understand a variety of strategic CSR planning tools - Become familiar with creating deep destructive change in pursuit of dual economic and social value

Content

Why incredibly intelligent people do incredibly stupid things? What are the most frequent dynamics associated with corporate fraud and corruption? What should be done to avoid mobbing or discrimination in organizations? And how organizational crises can be prevented and eventually resolved? What is cosmetic corporate social responsibility? On a more positive tone, how companies could create a culture that fosters personal and professional development? How do companies contribute to the development of societies where they operate? How do they contribute to alleviate the global problems and to promote a sustainable development? This course will address these questions through case discussions, lectures and the presentations of invited speakers. The main objective is to develop multiple, alternative, provocative, critical but constructive, perspectives of main ethical issues affecting the management of organizations today. We will “think out of the box”, learn how to look using the different perspectives of multiple stakeholders, take the defense of forgotten people, look at corporate power as an opportunity for organizational and social welfare… said in other terms, this is a course to think alternatively and creatively!

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