Corporate Social Responsibility (Names from A to K )

Teacher(s)

Aust-Gronarz Ina; Desmet Carlos;

Language

English

Main themes

The course aims at providing tools enabling the students to elicit critical thinking on ethical, social and environmental issues raised by contemporary organizations. The specificity of the firms' impact on economic life will be addressed by analyzing the principles and practices covered by the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR will be studied as a reflector of the modern firms' self-awareness process in terms of social responsibility and as a source of innovation in the face of today's challenges of competitiveness, sustainable development and transparent corporate governance. The theoretical references will moreover give way to more personal questioning periods developed by the students in terms of their own aspirations, perceptions and observations as citizens. All these elements foster personal change that in its turn conveys transformations within the chosen organizations.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	During their programme, students of the LSM Master's in management or Master's in Business engineering will have developed the following capabilities' CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP Demonstrate independent reasoning,look critically and consciously acquired knowledge (both academic and common sense) and managerial practices, in light of emerging circumstances and their outcomes. Decide and act by incorporating ethical and humanistic values, integrity, respect for the laws and conventions, solidarity and civic action, and sustainable development. Decide and act responsibly,  while taking into account the social, economic and environmental sometimes antinomic, outcomes in the short, medium and long term, for the various stakeholders. A SCIENTIFIC AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACH Consider problems using a systemic and holistic approach : recognize the different aspects of the situation and their interactions in a dynamic process. PROJECT MANAGEMENT Analyse a project within its environment and define the expected outcomes : identify what is at stake, the required outcomes and the environmental constraints; clearly define the project objectives and associate the performance indicators.

Content

Macro-trends with respect to sustainability (Main social, environmental, ethical, governance issues, Sustainable Development Goals')

• Definitions and origins of the CSR concept
• Risk & Opportunity management
• Stakeholder management
• Stakeholder dialogue & co-creation
• Global responsible leadership
• Coping with ethical dilemmas
• CSR strategy design and implementation
• Governance

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

• Continuous evaluation
  
• Date: Yes
• Type of evaluation: Case study preparation in group , Participation Sulitest
• Comments : This work involves a written report, an oral presentation and a peer review of another work. It accounts for 60% of the total. Due to the short time period to realize the team work, we cannot guarantee that students who join the course after September 25 will be able to join a group in the same conditions than other students. Moreover, the first Sulitest deadline is September 24 at 23:50
• Evaluation week
  
• Oral: No
• Written : Yes (2 hours)
• Unavailability or comments: The written exam accounts for 40 % of the total.
• Students with a second session will take a written exam under the same conditions of the exam of the first evaluation week, except that it will account for 100% of their final grade”.
• Examination session
  
• Oral: No
• Written: No
• Unavailability or comments: No

Other information

Link with the LSM competency framework :

• Priority in this course is given to

1. corporate citizenship to enhance your ability to act consciously, aware of your responsibilities, placing human and ethical considerations at the very heart of your thinking and actions
2. master a multidisciplinary body of knowledge (contents, methods, models and conceptual frameworks) related to CSR and sustainable development; and
3. personal development to enhance your self-knowledge and independence, to better prepare yourself to deal with ethical dilemmas common in the practices of organizations.

• Secondary competences also developed in the course are

1. to manage a project by working in a team under conditions of resource constraints, to provide comprehensive analyses of challenging corporate situations related to the impact of companies/organizations on the natural environment or society at large; and
2. to communicate your analysis effectively to different stakeholders.

Online resources

https://moodleucl.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=11437

Faculty or entity

CLSM