Responsible Leadership

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Understand the factors that affect the ethical behaviour of organizations and the individuals within them;
• Appreciate both short and long term consequences of ethical and unethical behavior;
• Understand how to implement responsible management practices, including ethical empowerment, in the workplace.
• Show awareness of the main ethical concepts underlying responsible leadership;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify ethical issues and resolve ethical dilemmas through application of theory to practice;
• Achieve ethical confidence through practice in applying a logical and structured form of ethical analysis to complex business issues;
• Assess impact of responsible leadership on stakeholder relationships and corporate reputation.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Think critically and argue effectively;
• Write effectively for business purposes;
• Develop skills in seeking out information from a range of online sources.

• Stakeholder theory and stakeholder management
• Responsibility and reputation
• Ethical awareness and moral imagination
• Moral philosophy and ethical theories incorporating notions of rights, justice and virtue and sustainability
• Organisational ethics and business ethics management - how to translate values into policies, practices, and decision making
• Case studies of responsible leadership
• Giving voice to values - ethical empowerment in the workplace.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures with regular practical exercises
• Class discussions
• Informal group presentations

Learning activities include

• Lectures
• Group discussions
• In-class assignments/exercises
• Group presentations

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Corporate Critic.

Business in the Community.

Article 13.

Unglobal compact.

Ethical Performance.

Sustainability.

Global Ethics.

Good Corporation.

Textbooks

Crane, A., Matten, D (2016). Business Ethics. Oxford University Press.

Gentile, M. C. (2010). Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right. New haven & London: Yale University Press.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External