INN3046 Responsible Management
- Number of credits7,5
- Teaching semester2024 Autumn
- Language of instructionEnglish
- CampusLillehammer
The course introduces theories and cases on responsible and sustainable management to increase the student's awareness, understanding, and theoretical knowledge about how business impacts its social and natural environment. The course will focus on how business and organizations have the responsibility to create value in and for society. The course will facilitate the student's learning process to engage in to make them sustainable, responsible, and ethically informed. It will focus on social responsibility and to some extent environmental sustainability. At the end of the course the student will be able to critically discuss business and management.
Learning Outcome
Upon passing the course, students have achieved the following learning outcomes:
Students
- can describe, compare, and discuss management approaches and critical perspectives on responsible management and business
- can relate management approaches and perspectives to the issues of common responsible management and business challenges
- have knowledge on responsible management, diversity management, and sustainability
Students
- can analyze the advantages and problems with the notion of responsibility, diversity and sustainability when encountered in organizational contexts, and assess some of the practical implications following from the work with responsibility, diversity and sustainability in specific company cases
- can analyze and reflect upon the notion of responsible management from organizational as well as societal perspectives
- can describe, apply, and assess relevant analytical tools and methods to understand and identify issues of responsible management in an organizational setting
- can identify, understand, and examine responsible management challenges and opportunities
Students
- have developed a critical approach toward management and business
- have 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
- have a critical approach to responsibility, diversity and sustainable management and business
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, analyse and solve the problems depicted in the case text and the teacher acts as a discussion facilitator.
There are two compulsory coursework assignments:
- The students shall hand in one written page of reflections on their own learning and relate this to social responsibility and sustainability. The course coordinator will specify the assignment.
- The students shall make a review of the course literature, maximum 4 written pages.
| Form of assessment | Grading scale | Grouping | Duration of assessment | Support materials | Proportion | Comment |
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Home exam | ECTS - A-F | Individual | 7 Day(s) |
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