Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able:
• to reflect and develop her/his identity and performance as an ethical leader
• to manage cross-cultural partnerships and working societies
• to lead ethically sustainable transitions in multiprofessional contexts
• to enhance ethical aspects in research and development
• to promote and guide ethical dialogue in working society

Teaching methods

1) Individual pre-symposium assignment: Study objectives and a research table in Learning Diary.
2) Participation in Ethical Leadership and Management Symposium lectures and workshops.
3) Individual assignment: A reflective learning diary including a case study and the research table.

Location and time

Deadline of the Pre-assignment 10th March 2024

Returning of the objectives and research table are compulsory requirements for participation in the ELM Symposium. The late return of the assignment is a sign of a low commitment and will decrease the grade.

2024 March 19 & 20 from 9- to 7
Program of the Ethical Leadership symposium will be published by January 10 2024.

Dead line for the learning diaries 2024 April 15th 23:59.

Learning materials and recommended literature

ALLEA, 2023. The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity – Revised Edition 2023. Berlin.
DOI 10.26356/ECOC. https://www.alleageneralassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/European-Code-of-Conduct-Revised-Edition-2023.pdf

Brito Salas, K & Avento, R 2023. Ethical guidelines for responsible academic partnerships with the Global South. https://www.unipid.fi/for-society/responsible-global-academic-partnerships/complementary-ethical-guidelines-for-global-south-academic-partnerships/

Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention), Council of Europe, 1997 http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/164.htm

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Council of Europe (April 1997).
Council of Europe 2009. Bioethical Issues. Educational Fact Sheets. http://book.coe.int

Donaldson, T. & Werhane, P. H. 2002. Introduction to Ethical Reasoning. In: Donaldson, T., Werhane, P.H. & Cording, M. (eds.) Ethical Issues in Business. 7th edition, Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall. 1-11.

The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Procedures for Handling Alleged Violations of Research Integrity in Finland 2023. https://tenk.fi/sites/default/files/2023-05/RI_Guidelines_2023.pdf

International Organization for Standardization, 2018. ISO 26000 - Social responsibility.
https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html

Juujärvi, S. 2018 Practical problem solving in enhancing ethical competences of health and social care professionals. In: Sanna Juvonen & Päivi Marjanen & Tarja Meristö (eds.) Learning by Developing 2.0: Case studies in theory and practice. Laurea Publications 101. Laurea University of Applied Sciences, 178–196. https://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/159833

Pinto, AD. & Upshur, R.E.G. 2013. An Introduction to Global Health Ethics. London: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group.

Rhodes, C. 2012. Agonism and Possibilities of Ethics in HRT. J Bus Ethics, 111, 49-59.

Saxén H. 2017. A Cultural Giant. An interpretation of bioethics in lights of its intellectual and cultural history. http://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/101926/978-952-03-0523-9.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Saxén, S. 2021. Ethics in Professional Discourse An exploration of moral uncertainty and the diversity of ethics in healthcare professions. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland Dissertations in Social Sciences and Business Studies No 247 University of Eastern Finland Kuopio https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/25093

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/

Tan DYB, Ter Meulen BC, Molewijk A, Widdershoven G. Moral case deliberation. Pract Neurol. 2018 Jun;18(3):181-186. doi: 10.1136/practneurol-2017-001740. Epub 2017 Dec 20. PMID: 29263135.

World Health Organisation. 2011. Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research with Human Participants. Accessed 31st March 2017. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44783/1/9789241502948_eng.pdf?ua=1&ua=1

World Medical Organization. Declaration of Helsinki.1996. British Medical Journal 313(7070):1448-1449. http://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1448.2


More relevant articles according to students interest and preferences of the lecturers will be published in January 2024.

Alternative completion methods of implementation

None

Co-operation with working life and/or RDI

2021-1-BE02-KA220-HED-000032015
Project Title Strengthening the ethical competence of future nurses and midwives: An inter-professional actionlearning
project on experiential training methods
Project Acronym ETHCOM

Important dates

Deadline of the Pre-assignment 10th March 2024

Returning of the objectives and research table are compulsory requirements for participation in the ELM Symposium. The late return of the assignment is a sign of a low commitment and will decrease the grade.

2024 March 19 & 20 from 9- to 7
Program of the Ethical Leadership symposium will be published by January 10 2024.

Dead line for the learning diaries 2024 April 15th 23:59.

Students workload

Pre-assignment 1. (2 ECTS= 54 hrs) Study objectives and pre-symposium research table of research articles selected for ELM-symposium introduced in the Learning diary format below. By 28th February 2024.

Assignment 2 (0.6 ECTS = 16 hrs) Participation in ELM-symposium 19th & 20th March 2024 during the Laurea International Week.

Assignment 3 (2.4 ECTS= 73 hrs) Learning diary of max 3000 words

Content and scheduling

Content:
• moral leadership and management
• diversity management
• ethics of corporate social responsibility
• ethical issues in health technology
• ethical dimensions of research and development

Grading scale

H-5

Evaluation methods and criteria

Overall assessment criteria for the learning diary
1. Logic, thoroughness, creativity and motivation of the arguments and ideas presented in the reflection
2. Carefulness of using the pre-assignment articles
3. Comprehensiveness of the theoretical foundation
4. Implementation of an ethical decision-making / reasoning model in the case study.
5. Clarity of the report (the structure of the learning diary may be freely determined by the student)

Evaluation criteria, fail (0)

The student is not able
To gather, process, produce and evaluate information about ethical leadership and management widely.
To use concepts of the area of expertise systematically.
To solve problems in ethical leadership and management research, development and/or innovation activities.
To recognize and analyze foci of ethical leadership and management development making use of the knowledge base.
To communicate about ethical leadership and management clearly both orally and in writing.

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student is able
To gather, process, produce and evaluate information about ethical leadership and management widely.
To use concepts of the area of expertise systematically.
To solve problems in ethical leadership and management research, development and/or innovation activities.
To recognize and analyze foci of ethical leadership and management development making use of the knowledge base.
To communicate about ethical leadership and management clearly both orally and in writing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

The student is able
To gather, process, produce and evaluate information about ethical leadership and management critically and widely making use of both national and international scientific sources.
To use concepts of the area of expertise fairly.
To solve problems in ethical leadership and management research, development and/or innovation activities by applying and combining information from different fields.
To create target-oriented, justified development plans for ethical leadership and management considering the community.
To communicate about ethical leadership and management in a competent, clear and consistent manner both orally and in writing.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

The student is able to create a consistent framework/knowledge base for ethical leadership and management making use of both national and international scientific sources in a critical analytic fashion.
To solve demanding problems in research, development and/or innovation activities in ethical leadership and managements where new knowledge and competence is created
as well as to apply and combine information from different fields.
To develop the activities of the ethical leadership and management competence area in a target-oriented and communal fashion.
To communicate about ethical leadership and management convincingly both orally and in writing to audiences within and exterior to the field.