B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Institute Level Optional Subject II Professional Ethicsand Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first, second and third years are on NEP 2020; the final year is still on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for it this year.
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Syllabus for Institute Level Optional Subject II- Professional Ethicsand Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Module 1: Professional Ethics and Business: The Nature of Business Ethics;
- Ethical Issues in Business; Moral Responsibility and Blame; Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits; Rights and Duties of Business
Module 2: Professional Ethics in the Marketplace: Perfect Competition;
- Monopoly Competition; Oligopolistic Competition; Oligopolies and Public Policy Professional Ethics and the Environment: Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion; Ethics of Pollution Control; Ethics of Conserving Depletable Resources
Module 3: Professional Ethics of Consumer Protection: Markets and
- Consumer Protection; Contract View of Business Firm’s Duties to Consumers; Due Care Theory; Advertising Ethics; Consumer Privacy Professional Ethics of Job Discrimination: Nature of Job Discrimination; Extent of Discrimination; Reservation of Jobs.
Module 4: Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility: Potential
- Business Benefits—Triple bottom line, Human resources, Risk management, Supplier relations; Criticisms and concerns— Nature of business; Motives; Misdirection. Trajectory of Corporate Social Responsibility in India
Module 5: Corporate Social Responsibility: Articulation of Gandhian
- Trusteeship. Corporate Social Responsibility and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India, Corporate Social Responsibilityand Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in India
Module 6: Corporate Social Responsibility in Globalizing India:
- Corporate Social Responsibility Voluntary Guidelines, 2009 issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, Legal Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility— Companies Act, 2013.
References
- 1 Business Ethics: Texts and Cases from the Indian Perspective (2013) by Ananda Das Gupta; Publisher: Springer.
- 2 Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context (2007) by Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten, Laura Spence; Publisher: Routledge.
- 3 Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 7th Edition (2011) by Manuel G. Velasquez; Publisher: Pearson, New Delhi.
- 4 Corporate Social Responsibility in India (2015) by Bidyut Chakrabarty, Routledge, New Delhi.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under R-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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