Ethics – A Workshop for Young Managers
Venue
Fr. Romuald D’Souza Auditorium, GIM Campus*, Sanquelim, Goa
Event Date and Time
14th November 2025
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Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG and Senior Professor, General Management & Public Policy Area conducted a Workshop “Ethics – A Workshop for Young Managers” for all first-year PGP students across the PGDM, BIFS, BDA, and HCM programmes.
Workshop Objectives
· To understand ethics in relation to—and in contrast with—morals, religious injunctions, aesthetics, conscience, common practice, cultural norms, notions of the “good,” law, and reputation.
• To highlight that Ethics is ultimately philosophical, and a skill that is developed in application, since situations are never the same. Yet perspectives can be of immense help.
• To examine how ethical considerations in business and organisational settings may differ from personal or societal ethics.
• To explore whether there exist “objective,” minimalist ethical principles that can guide decision-making across space and time—or whether ethics is fundamentally relative.
Workshop Overview
Across a two-hour session, Prof. Morris led students through caselets and no-holds-barred discussions, encouraging them to challenge assumptions and grapple with real-world ethical dilemmas. The workshop covered:
· Business ethics and personal ethics
· The limitations of relying on religion and consolationist philosophies for ethical reasoning
· Whether ethics is relative or whether absolute minimal principles can be articulated
· The relevance and critique of the stakeholder model
· How CSR fits within broader ethical frameworks
· How young managers can recognise and shield themselves from unethical practices often encountered in organisations
The workshop enabled students to deepen their understanding of ethics and its philosophical underpinnings.
About the Instructor
Prof. Sebastian Morris brings over 30 years of teaching experience from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Goa Institute of Management (GIM). He pioneered the “Business Ethics” course at IIMA and has co-designed and co-taught the innovative “Philosophical Foundations of Management” for more than two decades.
Discussant
Prof. Sebastian Morris
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
https://gim.ac.in/faculty/sebastian-morris;
https://sebastianmorris.org/ ;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-morris-27a4521/
; +91 832 2366733;
Contact: morris@gim.ac.in ; 91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
https://gim.ac.in/faculty/kingshuk-sarkar ;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kingshuk-sarkar-060b564a/ ;
https://vvgnli.gov.in/sites/default/files/kingshuk-sarkar-cv.pdf
Contact: kingshuk@gim.ac.in ; 91 832 2366942
Schedule
5.30 pm to 6.00 pm: Registration and Refreshments
6.00 pm to 6.05 pm: Welcome (Dr. Pushkar and Ms. Bernice de Souza)
6.05 pm to 6.10 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM
6.10 pm to 6.15 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Imran Rahman, Vice Chancellor, ULAB
6.15 pm to 6.20 pm: Setting the Context (Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG-GIM)
6.20 pm to 7.00 pm: Keynote address by Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti, Director, C-SAS, ULAB
7.00 pm to 7.25 pm: Open session, discussion and Q&A (Moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG)
7.25 pm to 7.30 pm: Vote of Thanks (Ms. Christal Ferrao)
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Contact Persons
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329