https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/E_BA_BEMCAcademic and Research Skills: Be able to explore academic debates in ethics, applied to consultancies and individual consultants. Knowledge of Theory + Methods and Solving Complex Problems: Be able to evaluate the applied methods in studies on normative ethical questions in consulting, and able to do own research on such questions based on interviews or content analysis and conceptual analysis. Professional Social Skills: Be able to suggest and communicate action when moral dilemmas occur in the context of consulting. Horizon Beyond Professional Area: Be able to relate to stakeholder interests beyond your interest as consultant in person, the consultancy you work for or your direct client. Self-Reflective Professional: Able to self-reflect on ethical dilemma’s related to consulting, that you have experienced during the master program.The course Business Ethics in MC focusses on the ethical questions and dilemmas involved in the consulting profession. As part of the course students will write an essay on the ethical implications of violating one of the key principle in the Ooa code of conduct for Dutch consultants. The lectures address different ethical perspectives and several issues consultants may encounter. In the seminars we explore ways consultants can and do act on them. After this course students should be able to understand where ethical issues originate from, and how consultants and consultancies could respond. It thus prepares students for the ethical challenges that await them, and helps with finding ways to act on them. One way to act on them is by preparing a blog, to put an ethics issue of particular interest on the agenda.Lectures and workgroupsEssay and presentationArticles and book chapters. For more details see course manual on Canvas.In the course we will reactivate and pre test your general knowledge on ethics. You can acquire the required knowledge based on M.J. Sandel (2010), Justice: What is the right thing to do? New York: FSG, (see also his weblectures: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+sandel+justice) or by reactivating your knowledge from a relevant course on (business) ethics in your bachelor program.Courses from periods 1-3 in master programme MC