Thiagarajar School of Management Batch 2019-2020, Term 3

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Credits: 3

Course instructor: K Sivakumar

Email: sivakumark@tsm.ac.in or
shivasugan@hotmail.com
Consultation: by email or phone - 9867002253
Pedagogy: case-based
Text: Being Ethical: Ethics as the foundation of business by
S.Manikutty
Course prerequisites:Nil

Evaluation scheme:
Surprise quizzes 15
End - term 50
Class participation 10
Group Discussion 20
Attendance 5

Sessions Topic Case Readings

1 &2 Basics of Ethics Beech-Nut Nutrition
Corporate Governance Corporation
CSR Sustainable
Development
3 Personal ethics and The Fall of Enron and Building of character -
business ethics World Com http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/
teaching/BE/PDFs/Badaracco-
HBR98.pdf
4 Organisational climate and Fall of Enron and https://www.strategy-business.c
personal ethics World Com om/article/9523
http://www.sfu.ca/~sheppard/3
03/ppts/Define.ppt
5 Business ethics towards The Board of
customers, employees, directors at
society, vs share holders market basket
interest
6 Ethics in http://www.vedamu.org/veda/k rp-
Mahabharata and puranas sir/ethics%20in%20ancient
%20india.pdf
7 Fraud at Satyam - an Satyam http://www.yourarticlelibrar
analysis Scandal y.com/case-studies/case-stud y-on-
satyam-computer-servi ces-
limited-scsl/99569
https://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJA
cct_2013042509481787.pdf
8 Building an ethical
organisation and
becoming a ethical manager
9 corporate
governance- global
practices and its
emergence in india
 10 Legal aspects of corporate
governance in the india
11 Corporate Governance corporate governance and
and Market market value - preliminary
capitalisation evidence from india companies - a
NSE study

12 Why sustainability - historical

perspective and indian
experiences
13 Sustainability and Unilever's New Global
competitive advantage Strategy: Competing
through Sustainability
CASE STUDY
Christopher A. Bartlett
14 Discussion on Indian Presentation by Plastic Ban
experiences groups NGT order on oil seepage in Oil
Storage of Oil companies
Sterite closure
Tannery wastage dumping in North
Arcot
Lead in Maggie
Flats non delivery Amrapalli
Misconduct Under CA Act

15 Managing conflict of interest Analysts dilemma Essence of professionalism -

managing conflict of interest
16 UN Developmental goals Niti aayog report august 2018
/status in India and SDG report of BPCL and ITC
Sustainability reporting
17 The difficulty of being good- Book reading and The difficult of being good by
the subtle art of dharma presentation by groups Gurcharan Das
18 CSR - A historical Tata Steel: A Century of
perspective and legal Corporate Social
aspects Responsibility
19 Building a CSR eco system-
challenges and strategies
20 CSR - Learnings
company-
practices adopted

21 CSR and competitive https://hbr.org/2006/12/strategy -and-

advantage society-the-link-between- competitive -
advantage-and-corporate-social-
responsibility
22 Mock Board Simulation of board
meeting
23 Mock Board Simulation of board
meeting
24 Reflections Learnings from the
course presentation by
groups