Evaluate and critique the concept of social responsibility, understand the context of it and how it functions operationally and at the governance level.
The Department of Management 400-level papers are currently being updated. For more information, please email Dr Conor O'Kane
| Paper title | Governance and Social Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Paper code | MANT450 |
| Subject | Management |
| EFTS | 0.1667 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period | Second Semester |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $1,058.71 |
| International Tuition Fees (NZD) | $4,692.94 |
- Prerequisite
- 72 300-level MANT points
- Contact
- management@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- View more information about modules on the Department of Management's website.
- Teaching staff
- Co-ordinator: Dr Brian Spisak
- Teaching Arrangements
- Lectures, small group discussions and readings, case analysis and interaction with outside organisations.
- Textbooks
- Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship,
Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy,
Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Develop an understanding of social responsibility and what that might mean in the New Zealand business context
- Understand the concept of sustainability and how that relates to social responsibility, organisations and governance
- Examine the nature and role that governance plays in creating socially responsible organisations
- Develop critical understandings of the literatures in the areas of social responsibility, sustainability and governance and use those understandings to make sense of case material
