INN3045 Responsible Management - Responsible Innovation
- Number of credits7,5
- Teaching semester2024 Spring
- Language of instructionEnglish
- CampusLillehammer
- Required prerequisite knowledge
Prerequisites: None specific.
- The course introduces theories and cases on responsible management and innovation to increase the student's awareness, understanding, and theoretical knowledge about how business impacts its social and natural environment.
- The course will facilitate the student's learning process to engage in management and innovation practices to make them sustainable, responsible, and ethically informed. It will focus on social responsibility and to some extent environmental sustainability.
- The three course modules address environmental sustainability, diversity management, and how organizations can work more towards responsible and sustainable innovation based on what has been covered in the two previous modules.
- At the end of the course the student will be able to critically discuss and approach management and innovation.
Learning Outcome
When passing the course, the student will have achieved the following learning objectives:
The student:
- can describe, compare, and discuss management approaches and critical perspectives on responsible management and innovation
- can relate management approaches and perspectives to the issues of common responsible management and innovation challenges
The student:
- can analyze the advantages and problems with the notion of responsibility, diversity and innovation when encountered in organizational contexts, and assess some of the practical implications following from the work with responsibility and innovation in specific company cases
- can analyze and reflect upon the notion of responsible management and innovation from organizational as well as societal perspectives
- has a critical approach to innovation and responsibility
The student
- can acquire knowledge on responsible management, diversity management, innovation, and sustainability
- can describe, apply, and assess relevant analytical tools and methods to understand and identify issues of responsible management and innovation in an organizational setting
- has developed a critical approach towards management and innovation
- has developed an awareness that natural resources are limited and people inside and outside the organization deserve to be treated fairly and equally to perform well, which calls for new ways and innovative ways of managing the relationships of organizations to people and the physical environment
- will be able to apply theories to empirical cases
There will be lectures and case discussions. The lectures will be interactive where the students are expected to engage in discussions. In addition, there will be teaching case discussions – where the students identify, analyze and solve the problems depicted in the case text and the teacher acts as a discussion facilitator.
After each of the three modules the students shall hand in one page of reflections on what they have learned in the module and relate this to social responsibility and sustainability. Each reflection must be approved before the student can take the main exam.
Individual home exam (one week).
Performance is assessed using a grading scale from A-F, where E is the lowest passing grade.
| Form of assessment | Grading scale | Grouping | Duration of assessment | Support materials | Proportion | Comment |
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Home exam | ECTS - A-F | Individual | 1 Week(s) |
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