Single course
Corporate Social Responsibility (Master's)
Content
The course covers the concepts and theory of Corporate Social Responsibility, including Strategic CSR Management, Ecological Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Economic Responsibility, Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Responsibility, and Sustainability Reporting and assessment.
Objectives
Corporate social responsibility in the management point of view has become even more significant in order to face the societal challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation and inequality. By implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), organisations can respond to the challenges. CSR includes environmental, social, economic and stakeholder aspects.
CSR competence is a key element of modern business and organisations and taking it into account promotes the success of organisations, creates competitive advantage and wellbeing for people, environment, and society.
This course primarily supports the following Sustainable Development Goals: 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16, 17
Jamk University of Applied Sciences, School of Business is committed to the Principles of Responsible Management Education initiative (PRME), which aims to develop responsible decision makers for future and advance sustainable development.
Competences
Responsibility management
You have an in-depth command of the knowledge base of sustainable development and are able to evaluate, analyse and apply researched knowledge critically in business development and management. You are able to initiate and implement responsible business with strategic stakeholders and partners.
Operating in a workplace
You are able to develop and manage the comprehensively well-being of a work community. You promote the resilience of a work community.
Ethics
You are able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments. You promote the realisation of diversity and accessibility. You are able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.
Sustainable development
You are able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
Learning outcomes
You master the concepts and key theories of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility in different levels (from individual to global). You can critically evaluate, analyse, and apply theoretical knowledge in organizational development and strategic management, taking the goals of different stakeholders into account. You can analyze the importance of implementing corporate social responsibility for the wellbeing of employees, work communities and society considering also ethical responsibility. You are able to communicate and share your learning and competence with other students in a virtual environment.
Implementation methods
Study methods
Corporate Social Responsibility course is an online course. Your studies take place in the Moodle learning environment, where you will find course instructions, schedules, assignments and materials. There are no webinars in this course. You will enhance the learning from your student colleagues via discussion forum where you can discuss and share your findings with other students about responsibility issues.
Teachers are available and you can ask the questions regarding this course via FAQ. In the course, learning takes place flexibly according to your own schedule. You will conduct independent information retrieval and apply what you have learned in the assignments.
The study of the course begins by orientation to the course, the theoretical starting points of corporate social responsibility and the definition of the key concepts. During the first three weeks of the course, you will have an orientation assignment which confirms your participation in the course.
Guidance
Guidance takes place in the Moodle learning environment (question and answer forum).
Feedback
You will receive feedback from the teacher and peer-to-peer evaluations.
You will give feedback on the course (mid-term and final feedback on the implementation).
Additional information
See the timetable of the webinars at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi/#/schedule by using the name of the course or course code YH00CL66-3002 (schedules will be published by 13 June 2025). NB! Online independent courses may not have schedules!
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Also notice that you cannot enroll in Open University courses if you are a degree student at Jamk (enrollment in Peppi).
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