Ethics and Performance
Faculty
Hugues Minguet, benedictine monk, previously lawyer in Fiduciaire de France, founder of “Institut Sens et Croissance”, consultant and in charge of training programs.
Attendees
Each session is organized for the attendees of Group HEC MBA program as for attendees in MBA exchange programs. Since it was launched, the seminar is one of the “must” of the “electives” of the MBA program.
Objectives
In this seminar, the attendees become more conscious of the ethical stakes of their business practices and learn how to assess their responsibilities as managers.
In the specific context of the monastery of Sereys (Haute- Loire) they will experiment a distant point of view to think and exchange about the signification of management practices and their impact.
Agenda
Created on an interactive mode, the seminar is built on basis of the questions and past and current professional experiences of the attendees.
The current stakes between ethics and performance are the main issues discussed in the seminar. As a manager, whom do I have to serve ? My C.E.O ? Shareholders ? Employees ? Common interest ? Does the concept of sustainable development suppose a new link with ethics ? Is management in complexity or in hard competition consistent with ethical rules and quality of behaviour ? How much does ethics cost What are the costs of non–ethical behaviour ? Is there a global ethics ? What are the roots of ethics ?
The seminar aims to help attendees to deepen their questions, and give them tools which will help them to take decisions in a complex environment.
Father Hugues Minguet will share his reflection and experience, built through contacts with many executives and companies.
Guest speaker
A senior witness is invited at the end of each seminar, a member of the Research Unit of the “Institut Sens et Croissance” or a well known personality of the business world. He will offer his vision and experience of ethics in business; he will explain how to maintain the various balances in complex business cases.
Amongst the senior witnesses invited to share their experience: Philippe Wahl, CEO of La Banque Postale ; Jean-François de Lavison, CEO of Ahimsa Partners ; Philippe Desmarescaux, C.E.O of Biovision Congress, previously C.E.O of Rhône-Poulenc Chimie; Bruno Rousset, C.E.O of APRIL; Vincent Schürr, C.E.O of Invelis and of various web companies…
Languages
The seminar will be held in English.
Venue
The seminar takes place in the monastery of Sereys ( Haute Loire) 1 and is organized to take in account the rythm of the monastic life.
It is a non confessional seminar, all kinds of thought and opinions are welcome and invited to take part in the exchanges.
Registration
Attendees will only have to transportation costs. Registrations will be made at Registrar Service (office 216, MBA) MBAregisrar@hec.fr
Bibliography
Aristotle « Nichomachean Ethics » « L’éthique à Nicomaque ».
Emmanuel Lévinas, « Totalité et Infini » – « Totality and Unfinished »
Jean- Loup Dherse, Hugues Minguet, « L’Ethique ou le Chaos ? », Presses de la Renaissance, 2007- « Ethics or Chaos ? » available in English edition (contact F. Hugues Minguet).
Contacts
Administration : Marie-Paule Gamond, marie-paule.gamond@sensetcroissance.org
Tel : 33 (0) 4 71 00 61 02
Mobile : 33 (0) 6 72 79 84 96
Web site : www.sensetcroissance.org