Single course

Ethical Expertise, Leadership and Organisational Culture (Master's)

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Credits
5 credits
Enrolment period
01.08.2025 - 17.08.2025
Duration
01.09.2025 - 28.10.2025
Study modes
Online studies
Field of study
Social services and health care
Price
100.00 €

Content

Definitions and examples of ethical dilemmas, moral issues, controversies, and work-related problems occurring in social and healthcare.

Ethical principles and a set of standards in student’s own area of expertise.

Importance of ethical expertise and moral resilience and strategies for
developing them.

Ethical leadership and organisational culture.

Impact of leadership and organisational culture on individuals’ and teams’ ethical decision-making.

Strengths and limitations of different approaches to ethical decision-making.

Methods and strategies for creating a sustainable, ethical organisational culture.

Implications of ethical expertise, leadership, and organisational culture for social and healthcare settings.

Objectives

The purpose of the course is to strengthen your ethical awareness, knowledge, and skills by identifying and analysing ethical dilemmas and controversies that arise in organisations, leadership, and professional practice. The purpose is that you are able to integrate diverse perspectives and take into account the individual, social and cultural context when assessing ethical dilemmas and promote ethically sustainable activities.

Competences: Ethics, Developing working community, Professional leadership

By the end of the course, you can evaluate the impact of organisational culture and leadership on the ethical climate of social and healthcare settings and teams’ performance, and critically appraise the strengths and limitations of different approaches to ethical decision-making. You can examine general ethical principles and a set of standards adopted by professional communities in social and healthcare and recognise how they affect on different levels. You are able to discuss a wide variety of issues related to ethical dilemmas within your own expertise area. You can foster ethical awareness, accountability, and collaboration to create an organisation that supports safe client care and collaborative practices.

Implementation methods

Flipped learning (tasks prior to webinars)
Active participation in webinars
Independent work