Corporate Social Responsibility in service organizations - a leadership perspective (BHO308)

The course aims to create knowledge and stimulate awareness about CSR from a management perspective, as a basis for making decisions about, and developing, CSR in a business. The course will provide basic knowledge about the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), developments and current perspectives of CSR, as well as central theories and models within the field.  

Key words - leadership perspective:

• Strategy
• Responsibility
• Ethical perspectives

Knowledge:

• Understand central aspects of CSR and have knowledge about the role of leadership in implementing and sustaining CSR in a corporation
• Understand the role of organizations (organizational theories) in promoting socially responsible activities and operations
• Be knowledgeable about an organization's different stakeholders (stakeholder theories) and about the interaction between organizations and stakeholders (stakeholder management)

Skills:

• Be able to analyze ethical dilemmas related to an organization's working and relation to the society
• Be able to analyze central challenges related to CSR and apply strategic tools to promote CSR in an organization
• Be able to develop suitable CSR strategies for an organization
• Be able to apply theories of CSR to identify, analyze and propose solutions to ethical, social and environmental issues
• Be able to communicate to various stakeholders about ethical, social and environmental issues related to an organization's working in society

General competence:

• Have insight in central concepts, theories and models of corporate social responsibility in order to identify and propose reasonable solutions to ethical, social and environmental issues
• Be able to reflect critically on how individual and organizational choices of theoretical perspectives can influence how ethical dilemmas are handled

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Articles:

 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Archie_Carroll/publication/273399199_Corporate_Social_Responsibility/links/59db781c0f7e9b2f587ff0d4/Corporate-Social-Responsibility.pdf

 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Archie_Carroll/publication/273399199_Corporate_Social_Responsibility/links/59db781c0f7e9b2f587ff0d4/Corporate-Social-Responsibility.pdf

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