BUSI47U15: SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICS AND CHANGE (TAUGHT)

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• Sustainability, Ethics and Change (Online)

• To explore the concept of global sustainability as it relates to business and other organisations;
• To consider the role and purpose of business and other organisations in relation to other actors in society;
• To review current trends in Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance;
• To explore the management of change inside organisations to enable them to respond to significant multiple external challenges including commercial and sustainability imperatives.

• Global ecological sustainability and the impact on and responsibilities of organisations
• The role and purpose of business and other organisations
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Stakeholder theory
• Corporate Governance
• Management of change models of transactional and transformational change

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module students should be able to:
• Critically evaluate the requirements of global ecological and social sustainability on business and other organisations
• Critically evaluate the role and purpose of business and other organisations in relation to other actors in society
• Critically evaluate trends in Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance in the light of stakeholder theory
• Critically evaluate models for the management of change in organisations
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of: - the parameters for global ecological and social sustainability; - stakeholder theory and its relation to Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance; - theories and models of the management of change

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the module, students should:
• Be competent in accessing and assimilating literatures of an advanced nature in global ecology, sustainability, stakeholder theory and change management
• Be competent in applying them to organisational practice

Key Skills:

• The ability to communicate effectively: communicating complex ideas orally and in writing;
• The ability to think critically and creatively and to argue coherently

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading and specially-written self-study material.
• The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

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