MLR Institute of Technology

Corporate Governance and Ethics

(Common Paper)

MBA: IV Semester L P C
Course Code: C20021 3 - 3

Unit-I
Introduction to Business Ethics: Definition of Ethics, necessity for business ethics, basic
principles in ethics, nature and theory of ethics , need for ethical guideline, salient issues in
ethics and commerce, ethics as a luxury, earlier attempts at ethics in industry, justification for
ethics, effect of migration of national character, shadow economy, corporate audits, political
issues.

UNIT -II
Understanding Corporate Governance: Corporate governance, capitalism at cross roads
historical perspective of corporate governance, issues of corporate governance, theoretical basis
of corporate governance, corporate governance mechanisms, Indian model of governance good
corporate governance, corporate governance committees, OECD principles, Indian committee
and guidelines, the confederation of Indian industry’s initiative, corporate governance models.

UNIT -III
Corporate Social Responsibility: System concept of business society, social responsibility,
social responsibility tools, approaches to ethics, corporate social accountability, business in a
social world ethics and social responsibility, professional ethics, ethics of practicing company
secretaries, ethical investing.

Unit-IV
Project Management: Concept of project and classification of project identification, project
formulation- project design, project planning, and social cost benefit analysis, financial analysis.
Project Appraisal: Project report and guidelines for preparing a project report, project
Appraisal, Significance of project appraisal, Profitability appraisal, and project financing.

UNIT -V
Entrepreneurial Training: Designing appropriate training programmes to inculcate
Entrepreneurial Spirit, significance of entrepreneurial training, Training for emerging and
Existing Entrepreneurs, challenges of new venture start-ups, poor financial understanding–
critical factors for new venture development.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

 Mathew, J.Manimala (2009), Entrepreneurship Theory at the Cross roads, Wiley India,
New Delhi, India.
 Bholanath Dutta (2009), Entrepreneurship, Excel Publication, New Delhi, India.
 N.Venkat Rao (2011), Entrepreneurship and good Governance, Students Helpline
Publishing House Private Limited, Hyderabad.
 Tabarrok (2009), Entrepreneurial Economics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
 Jain (2009), Hand Book of Entrepreneurs, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
 Robert D.Hisrich, Michael P. Peters, Decin A. Shephered (2009), Entrepreneurship, Tata
Mc Graw Hill, New Delh