PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

The presented paper is aimed at contributing to the discussion on the fundamental importance of professional ethics in the context of the current state of higher education in Slovakia. The main purpose of is an analysis of selected aspects dealing with professional ethics. The focus is to highlight the applicability of ethical principals in the university environment, incorporated into university CSR and specifically in the research and development activities and educational process. A comparison of the core values of professional ethics and teaching ethics is the subject of the research, forming the main part of the paper. The final part of the work focuses on the definition of the university as an organization, intended and authorized to follow the system of social responsibility. The presented work attempts to confirm the relationship of professional ethics and the social responsibility of the organization. As proof of the relation between the principals of professional ethics and the system of social responsibility, the work attempts to define the social responsibility of the organization as one of the fundamental aspects, respectively application of the professional ethics.