Course module - Corporate Responsibility
Code : EDUC20532 Credit rating: 10 Semester : 2
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Aims
This unit aims to:
• To introduce students to notions of, debates about and management practices in relation to corporate responsibility in the context of leisure industries.
Objectives (Learning Outcomes)
Knowledge and understanding:
• An understanding of corporate responsibility and its relationship to individual and organisational values and beliefs
• An understanding of the external influences upon corporate responsibility
• An understanding of management practices in relation to corporate responsibility
Intellectual skills :
• Critical thinking in relation to issues of corporate ethics and responsibility
• Critically examine theoretical perspectives in CSR contexts
Inferring meanings from different forms of information
Practical skills:
• Effectively contribute to debates about CSR
Transferable skills and personal qualities:
• Conceptual and analytical skills
• information handling
• group working
Assessment
Essay assignment : 3,000 words (100%)
Information
Course Content
The course unit will introduce the following content areas:
• Notions of corporate responsibility
• The relationship between corporate responsibility and ethics, values and morality
• Corporate responsibility and the business environment
• Business stakeholders and the barriers and their role in influencing corporate rersponsibility
• The role of social and environmental auditing in measuring and monitoring corporate responsibility
• Managing for corporate responsibility in leisure organisations - corporate citizenship, codes of conduct, `whistleblowing' and sustainability
Course Materials
Tutor(s)
Hall, David
Timetable
8 weeks @ 2 hours per week
Teaching Methods
up to 12 x 2 hour lectures/seminars supported by individual or group tutorials
Preliminary reading
• Fisher, C. and Lovell, A. (2006) Business Ethics and Values (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall
• McEwan, T. (2001) Managing values and beliefs in organisations, Pearson Education
• Parker, M (1998) Ethics and organisations, Sage
Keywords
Leisure
Responsibility
Corporations