INN3046 Responsible Management

    • Course code
      INN3046
    • Number of credits
      7,5
    • Teaching semester
      2025 Autumn
    • Language of instruction
      English
    • Campus
      Lillehammer
Course content

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:

Knowledge

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
Skills

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
General competence

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
Teaching and working methods

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.

Required coursework

There are two required coursework assignments that will be presented in the first lecture.

 

Assessments
Form of assessmentGrading scaleGroupingDuration of assessmentSupport materialsProportionComment
Home exam
ECTS - A-F
Individual
7 Day(s)
  • All
Form of assessment

Individual home exam (7 days)

Professional overlap
NameCreditsDateComment
INN3045 Responsible Management – Responsible Innovation
3,5
Course name in Norwegian Nynorsk: 
Responsible Management
Course name in Norwegian Bokmål: 
Responsible Management
Faculty
Inland School of Business and Social Sciences
Department
Department of Organisation, Leadership and Management
Area of study
Samfunnsvitenskapelige fag
Programme of study
Master of innovation
Course level
Second degree level (500-HN)