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Title | Ethical and Sustainable Business Practice | ||
Code | MGTK722 | ||
Coordinator |
Dr AI Rostron Work, Organisation and Management A.Rostron@liverpool.ac.uk |
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Year | CATS Level | Semester | CATS Value |
Session 2024-25 | Level 7 FHEQ | Whole Session | 15 |
Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements): |
Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite: |
Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis: |
Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis: |
Teaching Schedule |
Lectures | Seminars | Tutorials | Lab Practicals | Fieldwork Placement | Other | TOTAL | |
Study Hours |
6 8 10 |
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Private Study | 126 | ||||||
TOTAL HOURS | 150 |
Assessment |
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EXAM | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
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Resit/resubmission opportunity |
Penalty for late submission |
Notes |
CONTINUOUS | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
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Portfolio of evidence Reassessment Opportunity: 1000 word individual reflective report on personal learning from the module. Penalty for Late Submission: Standard UoL penalty applies Anonymous As | 0 | 30 | ||||
Individual reflective report Reassessment Opportunity: 3000 word individual report based on a critical analysis and evaluation of a work-based ethical problem. Penalty for Late Submission: Stan | 0 | 70 |
Aims |
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This module aims to: Enable students to reflect critically on the ethical nature of business and management, and the ethical implications of business strategy, decision making, and sustainability; Support students to examine a range of ethical and sustainability issues arising from the global nature of contemporary businesses; Provide students with a range of theoretical and practical tools with which to identify, and critically analyse ethical problems, and support effective decision making. |
Learning Outcomes |
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(LE1) Internationally aware. |
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(LE2) A leader. |
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(LE3) A lifelong learner. |
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(LE4) Flexible and adaptable. |
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(LO1) Students will be able to identify and discuss the ethical and sustainability implications of global trends for businesses. |
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(LO2) Students will understand and critically evaluate a range of ethical theories and tools. |
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(LO3) Students will be able to critically analyse and evaluate business practices in terms of ethics and sustainability. |
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(LO4) Students will be able to critically reflect on their own personal ethics and the ethical responsibilities and consequences of a manager role. |
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(LRE1) Ethically aware. |
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(LRE2) A problem solver. |
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(LRE3) IT literate. |
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(LRE4) An excellent verbal and written communicator. |
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(LRE5) Organised and able to work under pressure. |
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(RE1) A team player. |
Teaching and Learning Strategies |
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The module will primarily be delivered through eight weekly e-lectures, delivered through a variety of methods, covering key concepts, theories and case examples. These will be supported by individual online tasks, case studies, blogs, collaborative tasks and discussion boards, which will be used to develop and apply learning. These activities will be moderated by the module instructor. Students will also be directed to key academic and practitioner readings to further develop their learning. Unscheduled Directed Student Hours: 10 hours Description: The e-lectures will equate to 1.25 hours/week over 8 weeks undertaken asynchronously. Students will also participate in eight weekly e-seminars where they will engage in peer discussion of key concepts and application to their own work contexts. Seminars will be conducted via a discussion board with input from the module instructor. Unschedu
led student hours: 8 hours Additionally, students will participate in virtual action learning sets, where students will form small action learning groups and collaboratively choose and then work together to solve current ethical problems affecting group members. This will be facilitated by the module instructor. Unscheduled student hours: 6 hours Self-directed learning hours: 126 hours |
Syllabus |
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Businesses, organisations and ethics. This introduces the subject of ethics, how it relates to business and organisations and whether and how business can or should be ethical. Key theories and approaches are introduced, including an ethics of care, which will be drawn on and developed throughout the module. Ethical frameworks across borders – the global context. The nature of global challenges for managing ethically is explored, including managing across different national and cultural values, contexts and frameworks. Students will examine a range of global ethical issues including employment relations and rights, sourcing labour, managing customer data, social and environmental sustainability, consumer standards, inequalities. Personal ethics – the reflexive practitioner. Students will consider the nature and relationship between corporate and personal responsibility within an ethical framework. Students will be supported to critically and reflexively consider their own role and degree of agency within an organisation; their personal values; and the challenges of fulfilling competing demands of compliance and integrity. Stakeholder management. Students will be introduced to methods of identifying and mapping organisational stakeholders. Students will explore ways of analysing stakeholders and their interests through an ethical framework, and how managers and organisations can manage their responsibilities towards stakeholders in the context of differing or competing interests. Ethical and sustainable decision making. A range of key theories and approaches to ethical decision-making at the macro meso and micro-level will be introduced and critically examined. Corporate Social Responsibility. Students will be introduced to the concept of CSR and its role in contemporary business. Students will critically evaluate the concept of CSR and its relationship to ethical and sustainable business practice, including the performative dimension of CSR as a form of corporate image and branding. Managing ethically – putting it all together. Students will reflect on and apply learning from the module to develop their own informed answers to key questions: What does an ethical business look like? What does a sustainable business look like? And what does ethical management look like? |
Recommended Texts |
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Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module. |