6 ECTS credits
161 u studietijd

Aanbieding 2 met studiegidsnummer 4014219FER voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Business
Onderwijsteam
Philippe Eiselein (titularis)
Bart Pierre H Leyen
Onderdelen en contacturen
27 contacturen Hoorcollege
12 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
122 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
Inhoud

The objective of this course is to explain how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be integrated in business models. Such integration is quite challenging, and hence we elaborate on the variety of challenges. At the same time, CSR can have a positive impact on the business, which we do also discuss. Overall, CSR integration in business models requires various areas of understanding.

Hence, this course will concentrate on :

  • Which actions aimed to increase corporate social responsibility?
  • How to integrate corporate social responsibility with corporate strategy, managerial decision-making and risk assessment?
  • The importance of alignment of corporate culture with corporate social responsibility strategies.
  • The political context of operations, and successfully interact and communicate with governments and key stakeholders.
  • The various management systems for both avoiding potentially damaging events and mitigating the effects of a crisis after it has occurred.
  • Possible responses to the most critical emerging issues in the field of corporate social responsibility in the next decade.
  • Entrepreneurial solutions to the most challenging social issues, cf. social entrepreneurship.
Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Articles will be posted, Canvas
Bijkomende info

Teaching Methods

- Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
- Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
- Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study

This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.

Lecture: 27 hours (9 x 3 hours)

Practical: 12 hours

  • preparation group assignment: 6 hours
  • presentation group assignments: 6 hours

Self: 122 hours

  • keeping up with the course material during the semester, amounting to 1 hour per hour lecture: 27 hours
  • research / attend event: 3 hours
  • preparation group assignment: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
  • preparation presentation: 4 hours (0,5 day)
  • preparation exam: 48 hours (6 days of 8 hours)
Leerresultaten

General competencies

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) addresses the challenge of matching social values and corporate values in business firms. More specifically, students learn how to integrate social responsibility concerns into strategic management of the respective firms of employment.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

  1. analyse the main CSR issues in a specific company,
  2. evaluate who are the most salient stakeholders groups of that company,
  3. develop a strategy of CSR implementation in various types of organizations.
  4. illustrate how CSR is relates to (social entrepreneurship) business models.  

Overall, students will leave the course with an in-depth understanding of how firms respond to societal attempts to satisfy social demands (e.g., related to environmental quality), without impeding the ability to pursue conventional economic objectives.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 70% van het eindcijfer

Examen Praktijk bepaalt 30% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk Examen met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 70% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie Examen Praktijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Opdracht met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Written exam, closed book, determines 70% of the final mark.

The written exam will be composed of four open questions and two questions related to practical cases. The final score of the written exam is the sum of scores to all questions.

Practical Exam (Assignment) during the semester will count for 30 % of the final mark. This assignment is completed in self-composed groups, and focuses on specific case study.  Important stages in the evaluation of the practical exam are peer evaluation, in addition to the quality of the assignment. Peer evaluation is used to identify and mitigate problems of the functioning of groups. The quality of the assignment is assessed (total 100 p):

  • Quality of the discussion with respect to the specific case study (40 p.)
  • Quality of methodological explanation (20 p.)
  • Quality of references (20 p.)
  • Quality of writing and lay-out (10 p.)
  • Respecting deadlines (10 p.)

The final mark is the sum of the written exam and the practical exam.

Marks on the assignment can be transferred from the first exam period to the second exam period.

In the second exam period, students can work individually or in smaller group on the improvement of their assignment.

Toegestane onvoldoende
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Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master handelsingenieur: Standaard traject
Master in de toegepaste economische wetenschappen: Standaard traject
Master of International Business: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Educatieve master in de economie: standaard traject (90 ECTS, Etterbeek)