Group coursework - presentation with slides

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 40

Group coursework - role playing game 

2 - Set exercises - 60

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The module is structured around the evolving responsibilities of global business and your engagement with the following areas:
<ul><li>Corporate purpose: shareholder value vs. stakeholder capitalism </li><li>Theories of business and society </li><li>Global value chains and social/environmental externalities </li><li>Institutional and regulatory environments across countries </li><li>Stakeholder theory and stakeholder analysis </li><li>Managing key stakeholder groups and issues such as employees &amp; labour standards; suppliers &amp; responsible sourcing, consumers &amp; ethical marketing; governments &amp; regulations; NGOs &amp; activism. </li><li>Contemporary issues in global business (e.g., climate change, inequality, supply chain transparency, ESG investing)</li></ul>
The module maintains flexibility to incorporate emerging developments in global business and finance, ensuring that discussions reflect current real-world challenges.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization

BBM168 - Corporate Responsibility in a Global Economy

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The module will be based on interactive lectures which also make use of in-class discussion and exercises related to the topics at hand. Lectures are used to introduce context, concepts and techniques illustrated with practical and current examples, including guest speakers working in industry. Several exercises and case study discussions will be done in the lectures to illustrate the theoretical points. Some of these exercises will require work prior to the lecture (e.g. reading a case study). You will therefore have the opportunity to participate in class discussions and work through examples and exercises with the support of the lecturer. It is expected that you attend ALL lectures.
 
Key learning and teaching resources will be put on the module website on Moodle.
 
In the independent study time you are encouraged to read widely and in depth around particular topics in preparation for lectures. You may also spend time working through sample exercises and questions. In addition you will be preparing and undertaking your coursework assignments.

Contact hours are designed to be flexible and are delivered using a variety of methods to help you learn in the most effective way. A proportion of the core content may be delivered online and additional support materials and content will also be made available through Moodle.

Corporate Responsibility in a Global Economy

Critically examine contemporary global challenges (e.g., climate change, inequality, labour standards, ESG pressures) and their implications for business and key stakeholder groups, including employees, suppliers, consumers, governments, regulatory bodies, and civil society organisations.

Knowledge

Synthesise information on social and environmental issues, and utilise data from multiple sources effectively in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the issues and the positions of each actor involved

Skills

Present analysed information in a concise, engaging manner.

Devise strategies to identify and manage stakeholders successfully, and justify and evaluate the use of stakeholder management strategies with regard to specific social or environmental issues

Work with diverse groups of peers to deliver outcomes at pace.

Engage, with a demonstrable tolerance of uncertainty, in open ended situations often offering no easy solutions

Values and attitudes

Critically apprehend the role of business in society, and understand that the conduct of business is underpinned by specific assumptions about the world, including human beings, firms, the economy and society

Explain and critically compare major theories of business–society relations.

Explain how globalisation and global value chains shape social and environmental externalities associated with multinational firms