Specialization (SBWL) in collaboration with Institute for Ethics in Management, Institute for Organization Studies and Institute for Business Education

Host: Institute for Ethics in Management
 

What? The core idea

The pur­po­se of this spe­cia­liza­tio­nis to offer an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry edu­ca­tio­nal ex­pe­ri­ence that fo­cu­ses on ques­ti­ons of ethics in ma­nage­ment, busi­ness and so­cie­ty. These in­clu­de: What is the re­spon­si­bi­li­ty of busi­ness fa­cing cri­ses and sys­temic risks? What is good go­ver­nan­ce and trans­pa­rent decision-​making? What is the role of lea­der­ship? Are AI-​powered plat­forms new eco­no­mic op­por­tu­nities or do they discri­mi­na­te and put users under sur­veil­lan­ce? These the­mes are at the core of this spe­cia­liza­ti­on; ans­we­ring them will be cru­cial for fu­ture eco­no­mic and so­cie­tal well-​being. The aim of the spe­cia­liza­ti­on is not to pro­vi­de gui­de­li­nes for “ethi­cal” con­duct, but to en­cou­ra­ge cri­ti­cal thin­king and to pro­vi­de dif­fe­rent ap­proa­ches to eva­lua­ting ethi­cal chal­len­ges.

Why? Com­pe­ten­ci­es and op­por­tu­nities after the spe­cia­liza­ti­on

As fu­ture decision-​makers, the stu­dents that choo­se this spe­cia­liza­ti­on will broa­den their in­tel­lec­tu­al ca­pa­ci­ty to deal with fun­da­men­tal pro­blems and de­ve­lop a re­per­toire to solve them. Stu­dents will be pre­pa­red to eit­her con­ti­nue on with mas­ter stu­dies in go­ver­nan­ce, lea­der­ship, sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty, or more ge­ne­ral ma­nage­ment; al­ter­na­tive­ly they are well-​equipped to work in C-​level sup­port func­tions, con­sul­ting firms, or de­part­ments such as HR, ESG, sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty, CSR, risk and com­pli­an­ce.   

How? The pro­cess and struc­tu­re

Selec­tion Pro­cess

To par­ti­ci­pa­te in the selec­tion pro­cess, plea­se re­gis­ter via LPIS bet­ween Ja­nuary 30, 2025 2pm and Fe­bruary 4, 2025 11:59pm for cour­se 5764 – Ac­cess to Spe­cia­liza­ti­on: Ethics for Ma­nage­ment, Or­ga­niza­ti­ons, and So­cie­ty.

On the CAN­VAS page of the cour­se, you can then upload a one page mo­ti­va­tio­nal let­ter in PDF for­mat until Fe­bruary 9, 2025 23:59pm, that should ans­wer the fol­lo­wing three ques­ti­ons:

• Why do I want to take this spe­cia­liza­ti­on?

• Which ex­pe­ri­en­ces and ex­per­ti­se do I bring to the spe­cia­liza­ti­on?

• Plea­se iden­ti­fy and de­scri­be a con­tem­pora­ry case where an or­ga­niza­ti­on is faced with an in­te­res­ting ethi­cal chal­len­ge.

De­cis­i­ons about ad­mis­si­on are made as fol­lows:

• 10 % of spots for best grade point aver­a­ges con­side­ring study pro­gress

• 10 % of spots for out­stan­ding mo­ti­va­tio­nal let­ters

• 80% of spots for a com­bi­na­ti­on of grade aver­a­ges and mo­ti­va­tio­nal let­ters

All ad­mit­ted stu­dents will be con­tac­ted via e-​mail, and in this case we would ask you to con­firm imme­di­a­te­ly via e-​mail whe­ther you will ac­cept the of­fe­red place. This con­fir­ma­ti­on will then be de­cis­i­ve for the final ac­cep­t­ance.

Plea­se note, that our SBWL can­not be com­ple­ted wit­hin one se­mes­ter.

Ar­chi­tec­tu­re of the spe­cia­liza­ti­on

In­for­ma­ti­on on the credi­ting of cour­ses

Cour­se IV is in­ten­ded for credit trans­fer. Plea­se con­tact Anna Maria Rath (an­na­ma­ria.rath@wu.ac.at) in ad­van­ce to find out whe­ther credit trans­fer is pos­si­ble.