MGMT333-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Managing Corporate Responsibility

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

In pursuing the ethical basis for business policy and practice, we will look at changing notions of corporate performance. Participants will address such issues as: What is success in business? What good does business do and how does it do it? What are major causes of the breakdown of business ethics? We will also study the practice of business ethics, with the aim to expand capacity for moral inquiry, dialogue, and decision making in ways that will be useful in your professional and civic lives.

This course considers the roles of organisations and individuals in business and society. The assumption that firms are only wealth creating organisations, with little interest in social and ethical responsibility to the broader public and the physical environment, is a faulty one. Firms, proactively and reactively, go beyond their economic brief to provide their communities with philanthropy and other social initiatives. In this course we examine how firms attempt to balance the pursuit of profits and good corporate citizenship to their many stakeholders.

Relationship to other courses
This course is an elective course for students majoring in Human Resource Management (HRM), Marketing or Management in the BCom Programme. It builds on the foundation laid in MGMT230.

Workload
Lecture 24 hours (2x)
Lecture Preparation 42 hours
Mid-term test 2 hours
Final Examination 2 hours
Test and Exam Preparation 45 hours

Learning Outcomes

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Learning Goals
LG.1 Graduates can demonstrate advanced knowledge of their selected subject major, informed by the broader context of Commerce;
LG.2 Graduates are able to use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to address specific problems;
LG.3 Graduates can understand issues from a range of ethical, global and
multicultural perspectives;
LG.4 Graduates are able to communicate effectively both orally and in written form.
Learning Goal 3 is being assessed in this course this semester as part of the School’s Assurance of Learning (AoL) process.

MGMT333 Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
LO.1 Analyse the impact of the capitalist context for corporate responsibility
LO.2 Understand personal and organisational factors that enhance and diminish ethical decision-making, managerial decision-making, and corporate responsibility.
LO.3 Apply ethical and multi-stakeholder frameworks to decision-making
LO.4 Apply ethical understanding to real world cases.
LO.5 Explore the possibility of working for or setting up ‘business for good’ opportunities through the study of exemplary businesses.

Learning Outcomes Assessed with:
1 Assessments 1 and 2
2 Assessments 1, 2 and 3
3 Assessments 1, 2 and 3
4 Assessments 1, 3 and 4
5 Assessments 1 and 4

Teaching Approach and Learning Methods
Management is best learned through experience and practice.  Therefore the course is heavy on role-playing simulations in applied settings.  Further, the course uses discussion, videos, a scored simulation, and short readings to complement the simulation-based learning method.  Typically the process of a module will be as follows:

First hour …  Simulation Exercise (sometimes preparation will take place before class)
Second hour … Debrief of Simulation Exercise

Sometimes, the simulations will be such that you will have the entire class period to complete the exercise.  The results of some of our class exercises will be anonymously archived to provide future students feedback on typical outcome distributions.  Please send me an e-mail and notify me if you do not wish your anonymous results to be included for pedagogical and research purposes.

Prerequisites

(1) MGMT230; and (2) Any 30 points at 200-level or above in MGMT RP: Other essay-based courses

Recommended Preparation

Other essay-based courses

Lecturer

Associate Professor Matthew McCarter (University of Texas - San Antonio)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Class Participation 30% Class Participation
Mid-Term Test 04 Apr 2017 30% Mid-Term Test
Scored Simulation 23 May 2017 10% Scored Simulation
Final Examination 30% Final Examination


ASSESSMENT 1
CLASS PARTICIPATION (30%)
Ongoing

At the end of the semester, you will receive a grade for your participation (a) during in-class activities and discussions (25%). See Appendix A for counsel and expectations for doing well in class participation.

The assessment addresses and assesses all MGMT333 Learning Outcomes

ASSESSMENT 2
MID-TERM TEST (Testing weeks 1 - 6 content) (30%)
Date: 4 April 2017

The test will be 2 hours in duration. It will examine lecture material and course readings covered in weeks 1 – 6. The test will be online and will most likely be open book and open note, but closed neighbour. The format of the test will most likely be multiple choice and challenging; i.e. only one question will appear on the computer screen at a time; the questions will appear in a random order; and the choices to answer each question will appear in a random order.

The assessment addresses and assesses MGMT333 Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

ASSESSMENT 3
SCORED SIMULATION (10%)
Due: 23 May 2017 5.00pm

Assessment 3 is based on your performance in a management simulation about corporate social responsibility.  The simulation is considered by some as the most challenging, difficult, rewarding, and insightful (about for oneself and others) tasks in the course.  Why?  Because your individual grade for the simulation is a function of how much value you secure for yourself compared to how others in your same role also claim.  If you claim the most points of any person in a given role, then you get full credit.  If you claim the second most points, you get less credit.  And so on until the person that claims the least points in a given role gets the least credit for the exercise.  Notice this is often how free open markets work (markets without government intervention): the firm that beats out the others gets the most spoils, the runner-up gets less of the spoils, and so forth.  The exercise gives everyone a fair opportunity to do their best and be the best.  Further, the exercises is at the end of the course so that each student has as much time to learn, practice, and improve their management-related skills and understand course ideas. See Appendix B for detail and grading the simulation.

The assessment addresses and assesses MGMT333 Learning Outcomes 2 and 3. It also addresses and assesses BCom Learning Goal 2 and 3.

ASSESSMENT 4
FINAL EXAM (Examining week’s 7-11 content) (30%)
Date and time to be announced by the exams office

The test will be 2 hours in duration and designed similar to Test 1. It will examine lecture material and course readings covered in weeks 7 – 11. The test will be online and will most likely be open book and open note, but closed neighbour. The format of the test will most likely be multiple choice and challenging; i.e. only one question will appear on the computer screen at a time; the questions will appear in a random order; and the choices to answer each question will appear in a random order.

The assessment addresses and assesses MGMT333 Learning Outcomes 4and 5.

Important Assessment Information
Marks and Grades
Marks will be posted on the LEARN site as soon as possible after the assessments have been marked. You will be notified by email when the marks are available. Tests are not returned – however you can look at your individual test in the tutor’s office (during consultation times or by appointment at other times).

Grading
Your final score will be calculated after the raw marks for each assessment have been standardised.  You should not regard 50% as a pass mark.

Course requirements, expectations and regulations
Students are expected to be conversant with all materials covered in class activities and discussions. The Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship assumes that students have read the relevant sections concerning course regulations and aegrotat applications in the UC Calendar, “General Course and Examination Regulations”. No late assignments will be accepted, no extensions will be granted, no make-up work will be offered for assessment items not completed, and no extra credit will be awarded.

The Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship may standardise the marks for this course. As marks may be scaled at the end of the semester, there is no set pass mark for each individual item of assessment. A passing mark will depend on your overall performance on all items of assessment compared with other members of the class. A summary of Departmental academic policies on course grading, special considerations, etc. is available under:
http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/docs/acad_writing/acadpolicies.doc

The Department assumes that you have read this document. You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations at the following link:
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/regulations/general/general_regs_enrolment_courses.shtml

Notes

Class Representative
A class representative may be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class. Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep. Their email can be found at UCSA. The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the lecturer concerned as they occur.

Departmental Academic Policies
The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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