Ebio enterprise living map

Implement and continuously develop your own entrepreneurial profile, which will grow you in your family, community, professionals and institutions (25 credits).

Business Ethics (4.21) - Core Unit Standard

Specific Outcome

Assessment criteria

Bridging the Gap

Ebio Competency Programme: Information and Examples

Organize and Review your competencies

Walk and talk (Chap. 2): Company Rules/Principles/Beliefs and Processes. Experience that good business and good ethics is one and the same thing. Transparency with expert input keeps you there.

MIT open courseware: Literature, Ethics and Authority

SO 1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of ethics as it relates to business practice.

AC 1.1

Knowledge and understanding of key concepts related to business ethics are demonstrated.

J.Welch (Chap. 4: 53-57): Voice and Dignity

AC 1.2

A number of business values that are relevant to the local context are recognised and described.

J.Welch (Chap. 5: 67-69) Rule 2

AC 1.3

The contested and ambivalent nature of business values are evaluated in relation to own business practices.

J.Welch (Chap. 5: 70-72) Rule 4

SO 2

Apply knowledge of ethics to the analysis and resolution of specific business problems.

J. Welch (Chap. 2: 25-35): Candor

AC 2.1

The nature of the ethical business problem is described.

AC 2.2

Value positions of different stakeholders are clarified.

AC 2.3

Ethical dilemmas inherent in the problem are identified and discussed.

AC 2.4

A solution to the problem is recommended.

AC 2.5

The recommended solution is justified in terms of relevant business values.

So 3

Describe personal values that inform policies and practices of own business.

J. Welch (Chap. 1: 13-24): Mission and Values

AC 3.1

Knowledge of the core principles or assumptions informing relevant business policies or practices are demonstrated.

AC 3.2

The principles or assumptions are analysed in the light of knowledge of business ethics.

AC 3.3

Personal value positions reflected in the policy statements / practices of own business are described.

SO 4

Apply knowledge of business ethics to personal lifestyle choices and/or workplace practice.

J. Welch (Chap. 1: 13-24): Mission and Values

AC 4.1

The business value positions indicated by choices and practices in one’s personal and professional life are critically examined.

AC 4.2

The influence of the knowledge of entrepreneurial ethics on personal and professional choices and practices are analysed.

So 5

Protect business proprietary knowledge using ethical business methods.

Non Disclosure Agreements

AC 5.1

Concept of Intellectual Property is defined.

AC 5.2

Strategies to protect intellectual property and the potential of own business are described.

AC 5.3

Commercial strategies to protect intellectual property are described.

AC 5.4

Differences between registered and unregistered rights are explained.

AC 5.5

Different bodies that register intellectual property are identified.

AC 5.6