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Business Environment and Ethics

This document provides an overview of the 33B Business Environment and Ethics course. The goals are to enable students to learn about emerging trends affecting business decisions from social, political, ethical, and legal perspectives. The objectives are for students to understand the significance of the business environment and social responsibility, organizational ethics theories and sources, and the fiscal and legal environments of business. The course covers topics like the business environment concept, business and society/ethics/government/culture, management ethics, global management issues, fiscal policy, and India's legal environment for business.

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Business Environment and Ethics

This document provides an overview of the 33B Business Environment and Ethics course. The goals are to enable students to learn about emerging trends affecting business decisions from social, political, ethical, and legal perspectives. The objectives are for students to understand the significance of the business environment and social responsibility, organizational ethics theories and sources, and the fiscal and legal environments of business. The course covers topics like the business environment concept, business and society/ethics/government/culture, management ethics, global management issues, fiscal policy, and India's legal environment for business.

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33B BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND ETHICS

Subject Description:
Business Environment Ethics emphasizing on emerging trends in social, political, ethical and
legal aspects affecting business decisions explaining the business environment concepts in
significance along with the fiscal policy.

Goals:
To enable the students to learn the knowledge of emerging trends in social, political, ethical,
and legal aspects affecting business decisions.

Objectives:
On successful completion of the course the students should have:
Understand the concepts in significance of business environment along with the social
responsibility.
To learn organizational ethic theories and sources.
To understand the fiscal policy and legal environment of business.
To understand global management issues.

UNIT I

Business environment - The concept and significance - constituents of business environment -


Business and society, Business & ethics - Social responsibility - Environmental Pollution and
control. Business and culture - Business and Government - Political system and its influence on
business - Indian constitution - Directive Principles of State Policy.

UNIT II

Management Ethics – Frame work of organizational ethic theories and sources, ethics across
cultures, factors influencing business ethics, ethical decision making, ethical values and
stakeholders, ethics and profits, corporate governance structure of boards, reforms in boards,
compensation issues, ethical leadership for improved corporate governance and better
business education.

UNIT III

Global management Issues MNCs politics and Environment


Multi national corporations and Government relationship, Business in Politics, Managing
environmental quality, ethics and profit in Business.

UNIT IV

Fiscal Policy - Central finances and New fiscal policy - Direct and indirect Tax structure, VAT,
MODVAT - Service Tax problems and reforms - Expenditure Tax - Public debts & deficit
financing

UNIT V

Legal environment of business - Monopolies Restrictive Trade Practices Act. Foreign Exchange
Management Act-1 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act - Customs & Central Excise Act
- Central & State Sales Tax - Consumer Protection Act Patents Act – Competition Law.

References:
1. Adhikari M - Economic Environment of management
2. Francis Cherunilam - Business Environment
3. Pruti S. Economic & Managerial Environment in India
4. Shaikh Saleem - Business Environment, Pearson Education, 2006
5. Davis & Keith William C. Frederik - Business and society
6. Amarchand D - Government and Business
7. Mankard - Business Economics, Mac Millan.
8. A.N.Agarwal - Indian Economy - Wishwa Prakashan
9. Steiner & Steiner – Business Government and Society, Mc Graw Hill, 2003.
10. Kitson. A. and Cambell.R – The Ethical Organisation, Palgrave, 2001

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