Human Rights in the Professional Context
Degree programme | Business Administration: International Marketing & Sales |
Subject area | Business and Management |
Type of degree | Master Part-time Summer Semester 2024 |
Course unit title | Human Rights in the Professional Context |
Course unit code | 800101010701 |
Language of instruction | English |
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Elective |
Teaching hours per week | 2 |
Year of study | 2024 |
Level of the course / module according to the curriculum | |
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 |
Name of lecturer(s) | Smera REHMAN |
English Level B2 (CEFR)
- History and development of human rights
- Human rights documents and instruments in order to protect and promote human rights in the professional setting
- Selected case studies and case work in relation to human rights and professional ethics
- Discussion of controversies and dilemmas including ethical issues
- Sustainable Development Goals and relevance in the work environment
- Basic human needs and the development of role morality in comparison to personal morality
- Scientific action and possible solutions for a non-discriminatory professional setting
Students
- Reflect on human rights documents and instruments
- Identify how human rights principles can be applied to add value in the workplace
- Apply ethical approaches and human rights principles in the workplace
- Analyse relevant SDGs
- Connect practice and theory
- Think critically about ethical issues encountered in the professional setting
- Recognise challenges (personal morality vs. role morality) and develop problem-solving strategies
- Assess anti-discrimination elements and understand substantive equality issues.
- Self-organised learning
- Dialogue in small groups
- Reflection
- Exercises based on the learning resources
Final examination (group presentation during the course)
Field trip to a sustainably managed business: Students explore how human rights are realised and how sustainable business practices promote cooperation and participation of different social groups.
Cost per person: 10 €
Brenkert G. George (2015) Business Ethics and Human Rights: (online article)
Cramton C. Roger, Knowles P. Lori (1998) Professional Secrecy and Its Exceptions: Spaulding v. Zimmerman Revisited (online article)
Gil, D. G. (1998). Confronting Social Injustice: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers. New York: Columbia University Press.
Heiderich, J. (2010). Gerechtigkeit in Organisationen. Im Spannungsfeld von Bedürfnissen, Macht und Arbeitszufriedenheit. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (2008). Professional ethics. "Basic definitions of professional ethics" Online available http://ethics.iit.edu/teaching/professionalethics
Leideritz, M. /Vlecken, S. (Hrsg.) (2016) Professionelles Handeln in der Sozialen Arbeit – Schwerpunkt Menschenrechte, Ein Lese- und Lehrbuch, 1. Auflage. Leverkusen: Budrich, Barbara.
Luban, David (2007). Professional ethics. A Companion to Applied Ethics. R.G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, eds. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Prasad, N. (2011). Mit Recht gegen Gewalt. Die UN-Menschenrechte und ihre Bedeutung für die Soziale Arbeit, Budrich, Opladen, Farmington Hills
Staub-Bernasconi, S.(2007/2010). Soziale Arbeit als Handlungswissenschaft. Systemtheoretische Grundlagen und professionelle Praxis − Ein Lehrbuch. 2. Aufl. Bern.
Vereinte Nationen. Zentrum für Menschenrechte, Genf/ Internationale Vereinigung der Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeiter/ Internationaler Verband der Ausbildungsstätten für Sozialarbeit (Hrsg.): Menschenrechte und Soziale Arbeit. Ein Handbuch für Ausbildungsstätten der Sozialen Arbeit und für den Sozialarbeitsberuf. Übersetzung: Michael Moravek. FH Ravensburg-Weingarten (5.) 2002. Bezugsadresse: Fachhochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten. Postfach 1241,D-88241 Weingarten.
- Interdisciplinary and interactive workshop on human rights in the professional context.
- Student-led working groups; analyse real life cases and case-studies with a focus on professional ethics, in order to find similarities and differences between disciplines
- Video material (e.g. films, reports, interviews) to promote human rights principles and professional ethics
- Digital questioning/quiz and voting sessions through tools such as Mentimeter.