Ethics & Socail Responsibility

Dr.M.M.Dheen Muhammad

College of Sharia and Islamic Studies

Office Tel: 4856070

Handouts for Students [1]

1 -  Course detail

  Title : Ethics and Social Responsibility

   No : 401341

  Hours  : 03 Credits

  Indented for  :  College of Management and Business Administration.

  Level : Undergraduate

  Medium of instruction : English

   Time of lecture : 12 – 13 at EC202 (Sun,Tue,Thu) [ for GIRLS]

   13 – 14 atECO10 (Sun,Tue,Thu  ) [ for BOYS]

2 –Course rationale:

Man is an ethical being governed by a particular worldview, which is usually religious and almost always ethical in nature. It is when he chooses to ignore this worldview that man goes astray.

Man’s life constitutes particular stands, activities and responses that need to be evaluated at every instance, and this is what makes the ethical perspective in all endeavors essential.

Today, in a world where competition reigns supreme in our social activities and relations, where the market determines our attitudes and has a direct bearing on them, a discipline that addresses the ethical dimension of human behavior becomes a “MUST”. This discipline – irrespective of its nomenclature – has gained currency only to face serious challenges such as: what if man defies his ethical nature or simply shelves it? Business ethics has an important role to play here by protecting society from disintegration, choose, and by insuring peace and happiness for the individual.

3- Course Objectives

Produce graduates who:

§   Are successful managers and businessmen

§   Embody Islamic values

§   Know that success in management of institutions or business is greater and more effective when man is ethically guided.

§   Understand that making fast profit at the cost of ethical values denotes bad managements.

§   Understand that business administration is a human venture and has to play a role in imbuing justice and peace in society as well as in disseminating noble values.

4- Assessment / Distribution of Marks

The student will be assessed through various ways and accordingly the total hundred marks will be distributed as follows:

NOTE :

1-NO REPEATATION of mid-term exam

2-NO RELAXATION in timings of Essays/presentation

3-Less than 80% of class attendance will prevent you from attempting the FINAL

examination.

5-Councelling hours

I will be available for Girls from 10.00  to 11.00 on Sun, Tue,Thu

for Boys        14.00 to15.00             do

6- course outline:

1-         a: man: an ethical being/entity

b: integration of man’s behavior and ethics

c: the Islamic paradigm for human behavior (the behavioral and ethical dimensions of  both the theological/belief aspects and the juristic aspects)

2-         The governing principals of business administration/behavior according to the Islamic perspective:

o       The Islamic perspective of man and his activities.

o       The concept of servitude

o       Principles of the lawful and the unlawful

o       Love as the foundation of Muslim life

o       Love and its noble impact of human realties

o       The soundness of thought and behavior

3- Business administration: the means to achieving a successful/

prospering society.

o       Success, development. Profit and loss: their spheres and forms.

o       Successful managerial personalities in the Islamic perspective.

4- Rectitude/uprightness: the basis for success and its maintenance in

competitive circumstances and the face of challenge

5- The ethical dimension of managerial decisions

6- The ethical dimension I social and work relations: relations

Between workers (of all categories) and institutions. An Islamic

perspective.

7- Social responsibilities: individual and collective.

7-SOME ADVISE/RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BETTER LEARNING:

1-     Read the course outline carefully and know that learning is much more effective

If one is attuned to the subject matter. In order tomaster this course students should therefore be aware of the fundamental nature of this course and its requirements, and plan their study method accordingly.

2-     Ethics and social responsibilities’ has been developed in an attempt to explain a

Particular aspect of human behavior that can be related and properly understood

Only in the context of the total Islamic understanding of man.  It is therefore necessary to study the Islamic concept of man and also to obtain an overall view of the different concepts prevail in today’s world.

3-The nature of a course and its particular requirements have important implications

For your study methods. You should therefore establish as soon as possible what I

is expected of you in this course, what type of assignments and examination questions to expect, and what criteria will apply in the assessment of your work.

[ AGAIN, read the course contents, discuss with your classmates and the teacher,

spend at least three(03)hours in a week in reading, and be active in the class-room]

4- In this course I expect you to KNOW various things related to ethics especially

From an Islamic perspective and be able to DO certain things with them. Since you have to pass an examination at the middle and the end of this course, it is

Important that you understand what is meant by knowing these things and what type of things I wish you to do( or what skills you will be expected to demonstrate).Actually these two are interrelated: your knowledge of the subject

Will be apparent from the things you are able to do. By knowing I do not mean

That you should merely be able to respond the facts found in the reading materials/handouts/websites, or said in the class-room. YOU SHOULD GEAR

YOURSELF FROM THE START NOT TO LEARN LIKE A PARROT BUT

TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE IDEAS, CONCEPTS,AND THEORIES.WHEN YOU DO YOUR ASSIGNMENTS OR ANSWER

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS, REMEMBER NOT TO SIMPLY SUMMERISE OR REPRODUSE PASSAGES FROM WHATYOU HAVE

READ; CARRY OUT THE ASSAIGNMENT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN A WAY THAT WILL SHOW YOU UNDERSTAND OF BOTH THE QUESTION AND THE SUBJECT.

4-Skills I expect you to develop:

-Accuracy

-Clear, logical ,and systematic presentation

-Analysis

-Distinguishing between important and less important information

-Finding the relationship and the differences between subjects

-Synthesis

-Comparison

-Evaluation

5-Hints at examination

Although examination questions can be phrased in many different ways , I actually expect only a few types of answers or a combination of these types. The following types of questions can be distinguished;

1-Merely supplying information:

Sometimes a question is asked with the sole purpose of testing your knowledge of certain important facts. In these cases you simply have to supply the relevant information without explaining, comparing or evaluating it. Such an answers are required for the following type of question:

--what is/are(e.g” what are the characteristics of a Muslim?)

--name…(e.g” name the five pillars of Islam)

2-Defining and distinguishing

Here I want to see whether you know the precise meaning of concepts and can distinguish them from others. you are therefore required to give definitions of the concepts ,ideas ,and theories. In some cases the relevant information can be found in and quoted from any book. But in others you will have to formulate your own on the basis of the information you have collected/studied. The number of marks allocated will indicate the degree of complexity of the expected answer.

Questions of this type include:

-----How does …define…?

-----How does…distinguish between?

-----Define…?

----Distinguish between

3-Explanation

Like every other instructor I wish to ascertain whether you know and understand an extensive and complicated matter in detail. Since many students are inactive in the classroom, checking your ability to explain through questions becomes A MUST. Here I want you to write as if I know less about the subject than you do and you are explaining it to me. In this types of questions you have to demonstrate practically all / most of the above-mentioned skills. It is a good idea to use your own examples to illustrate/explain your point.

The number of marks allocated and presence or absence of qualifications such as:

“briefly”,” in detail”, and ”using examples” indicate how long the answer should be. This type of questions will usually start with:

------------Explain

-----------Describe

-----------Discuss

4-Argumentation or reasoning

This is the most difficult type of answers that will require from you ability to select and process relevant information, to make deductions and substantiate them, and to work step by step towards a conclusion, in other words, to reason

In a logical way.[Questions requiring this type of reasoning usually carry phrases such as ”compare” ,”evaluate” ,”why’,” discuss…in terms of…]

BEWARE: We do not have a “Text book” for this course. You will depend on your own search and research. I’ll –inshaallah-provide you, however, with handouts and some relevant reading material at the beginning of each lecture.

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February2006,12