Responsible Leadership

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the main ethical concepts underlying responsible leadership;
• the factors that affect the ethical behaviour of organisations and the individuals within them.
• how to implement responsible management practices;
• short and long term consequences of ethical and unethical behaviour;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate your written communication skills.
• demonstrate critical analysis of complex ethical issues;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically evaluate ethical theories and apply them to solve different ethical problems.

• Stakeholder theory and stakeholder management (e.g. Overview of stakeholder theory and stakeholder management, and the link between stakeholder theory and ethics).
• 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 will combine lectures with regular practical exercises, class discussions and informal group presentations. Structured ‘homework’ assignments are also carefully designed to enable reflective learning and engagement with key issues. This will include lectures, class discussions and group activities.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Corporate Critic.

Article 13.

Business in the Community.

Sustainability.

Global Ethics.

unglobalcompact.

Good Corporation.

Textbooks

Kempster, S. and Carroll, B (2016). Responsible leadership: realism and romanticism (Vol. 4). Routledge.

Morrison, J. (2015). Business ethics: New challenges in a globalised world. Palgrave Macmillan.

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

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