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Please note the following credit values:

BSc Course: 4.5 ECTS*
BSc Seminar Course: 9 ECTS
MSc Course: 5 ECTS
MBA Course: 3 ECTS
MBA Workshop: 1 ECTS
Language course: 5 ECTS

*The following BSc courses have a different credit value: 

Business Communication: Theory & Practice: 3 ECTS
Managing your personal performance holistically: 3 ECTS
Harmonizing Leadership with Personal Development: 3 ECTS
Mental Health First Aid: 1,5 ECTS
Understanding your personal performance base: 1,5 ECTS
Workshop Body Language for Women: 1,5 ECTS
Intercultural Competence - Fit for International Collaboration: 1,5 ECTS
Perform Yourself! Media and Presentation Coaching: Personal Presence!: 1,5 ECTS

In Praxi-Seminar - Q3

Course Content

Part 1: Common welfare from a political science perspective
Part 2: Business leadership from a business ethics perspective

This unique seminar will be supervised by two outstanding lecturers responsible for working with the students on the intersection of business leadership and common welfare. The two lecturers will represent a combination of entrepreneurial personality and scientific rigor to ensure that students will benefit from their practical experiences and theoretical knowledge. It is intended to highlight aspects of business ethics from a practical perspective supplemented by political science analyses of the phenomenon of common welfare.

Form of Examination

Form of Assessment Weighting
(in %)
Duration of written exam
in minutes
Written Exam    
Oral Examination   -
Written Work (Individual)   -
Written Work (Group)   -
Presentation (Individual)   -
Presentation (Group)   -
Business Simulation   -
Class Participation   -
Answer-Choice-Exam   -
Other assessment format (please specify):   -

Literature

[1] Gemeinwohl und Gemeinsinn, hg.v. Herfried Münkler, Harald Bluhm und Karsten Fischer, 4 Bde., Berlin 2001/2002
[2] Gemeinwohl - Auf der Suche nach Substanz. WZB-Jahrbuch 2002, hg.v. Gunnar Folke Schuppert / Friedhelm Neidhardt, Berlin 2002
[3] Universitas. Orientierung in der Wissenswelt, 57. Jg., September 2002, Nr. 675, darin Dokumentation der von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Eberhard von Kuenheim Stiftung 2002 durchgeführten Konsultation "Gemeinsinn unternehmen" mit hochrangigen Vertretern aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kirchen, Bildungseinrichtungen, Medien und Interessengruppen
[4] Karsten Fischer: Moralkommunikation der Macht. Politische Konstruktion sozialer Kohäsion im Wohlfahrtsstaat, Wiesbaden 2006
[5] Thomas Rusche: Philosophische versus ökonomische Imperative einer
Unternehmensethik, EWD Bd. 2, 3. Aufl., Münster, Hamburg 1993
[6] Thomas Rusche:Verantwortungsvernünftige Unternehmensethik. Von der diskurspragmatischen Konzeption zur aktionsreflexiven Anwendung (unveröffentlichtes Skript)






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Lecturers

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Fischer, Karsten
Lecturer
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Rusche, Thomas
Lecturer

Indicative Student Workload

Self-Study 64 h
Contact Time 24 h
Examination 2 h