Establishment
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
STRATEGY MANAGEMENT
This course occurs in the following program(s)
IESEG Degree - Programme Grande École
- Crédits ECTS: 2.00
Training officer(s)
F.DE BAKKER
Stakeholder(s)
F.MAON, TW.SEREMANI, J.BRUNEEL, S.ARON, Guillaume MERCIER, Julie BAYLE-CORDIER, Margaret FLAHERTY, Maria CASTILLO
Présentation
Goal
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Identify different possible paths through which business organizations can generate positive social and environmental impact
- Develop a vision for business organizations that emphasizes sustainable business value creation, innovation, and responsible leadership.
- Use concepts, models and analytical tools to address responsibility- and sustainability-related questions at different levels of the business organization;
- Understand how perspectives and challenges linked to ethics, responsibility and sustainability can influence managers' behavior inside organizations and in their interaction with their stakeholders
- Identify different possible paths through which business organizations can generate positive social and environmental impact
- Develop a vision for business organizations that emphasizes sustainable business value creation, innovation, and responsible leadership.
- Use concepts, models and analytical tools to address responsibility- and sustainability-related questions at different levels of the business organization;
- Understand how perspectives and challenges linked to ethics, responsibility and sustainability can influence managers' behavior inside organizations and in their interaction with their stakeholders
Presentation
n this course, we will engage in reflecting upon the role and purpose of business organizations in society. In the first part of the course (common to all students), after having introduced the debate about the role(s) and impact of business and corporate actors in society, we will address the principles and practices covered by the field(s) of stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability and associated notions such as integrity. We will look into business organizations' increasing self-awareness and capabilities in terms of social and environmental performance, and at potential innovation incubators in the context of the rising challenges of competitiveness, sustainability and governance. Several unconventional values-based business and management models will also be examined. All this will be done through interactive sessions. In the second part of the course –which will be track-specific– students of the different tracks will be exposed to ethical, social responsibility and/or sustainability contemporary challenges that are particularly relevant at the moment in their domain of specialization. These specific questions will be approached through interactive seminars, sometimes complemented by practitioners’ presentations.
Modalités
Organization
Type | Amount of time | Comment | |
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Face to face | |||
Interactive class | 16,00 | ||
Independent work | |||
Reference manual 's readings | 6,00 | ||
Independent study | |||
Group Project | 16,00 | Part 2 - group assignment | |
Individual Project | 6,00 | Part 1 - individual exercises and assignments | |
Estimated personal workload | 6,00 | Part 1 - individual exercises and assignments | |
Overall student workload | 50,00 |
Evaluation
- Class participation – 25% of the final grade (including: class attendance, participation, contribution/behavior and homework)
- Individual reflective essay - 25% of the final grade - feedback at group level
- Analysis of a company's CSR efforts, resulting in a (group-based) detailed poster and a supporting document that will report on the underlying research used to create the poster - feedback during class sessions
- Individual reflective essay - 25% of the final grade - feedback at group level
- Analysis of a company's CSR efforts, resulting in a (group-based) detailed poster and a supporting document that will report on the underlying research used to create the poster - feedback during class sessions
Control type | Duration | Amount | Weighting |
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Continuous assessment | |||
Participation | 0,00 | 0 | 25,00 |
Others | |||
Group Project | 0,00 | 1 | 50,00 |
Written Report | 0,00 | 1 | 25,00 |
TOTAL | 100,00 |
Ressources
Bibliography
Selection of articles - indicated in Course Syllabus and published on IESEG Online. -
Internet resources