Corporate Responsibility and Accountability
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
This unit critically examines how businesses manage environmental, social and governance risks and have responded to stakeholder pressures to be more accountable for mitigating impacts on society and the environment. The unit reviews the historical evolution and development of the concept of corporate responsibility. It explores why corporate responsibility plays an increasingly important role as a core function in managing a business enterprise as well as emerging integrative models such as creating shared value. The unit also explores how business accounts for its behaviour and impact in society through reporting, measuring and management of its impacts.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
4. Evaluate and apply ethical and accountability frameworks in business.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of corporate responsibility theories, models and frameworks.
2. Analyse and evaluate the key drivers behind the uptake of corporate responsibility by business.
3. Critically evaluate the concept of corporate responsibility and future trends in the role of the corporation in society.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Block Mode:
This unit will be delivered in block or intensive mode. Block mode may consist of blended, intensive and immersive teaching, which can include full day teaching and weekend teaching requirements – as specified in the Unit Outline.
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
To be successful, students should:
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
This unit will be delivered in block or intensive mode. Block mode may consist of blended, intensive and immersive teaching, which can include full day teaching and weekend teaching requirements – as specified in the Unit Outline.
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Non-scheduled learning events and activities (including directed online learning activities, assessments, independent study, student group meetings, and research)
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
1. Assignment (Individual) 30-50%
2. Case Study (Individual) 50-70%
2. Case Study (Individual) 50-70%
General skills outcomes
• problem solving skills
• analysis skills
• communication skills
• ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
• ability to work independently
• analysis skills
• communication skills
• ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
• ability to work independently
Content
- The historical evolution and development of corporate responsibility
- Theories of corporate responsibility and accountability
- Environmental, social and governance challenges and how companies mitigate environmental, social and governance risks
- Social and environmental reporting and assurance, including frameworks and models
- The role of government and policy in regulating and enabling corporate responsibility
- Future trends and developments in corporate responsibility
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.