Course overview
This course aims to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge to analyse, and implement solutions to ethics, sustainability, and governance challenges in the global environment. By evaluating concepts and knowledge in the specific areas of business ethics, sustainable business practice, and corporate governance, this course will enable learners to develop skills in complex problem-solving, decision-making, and professional ethics across diverse cultures and international business contexts. This course aligns with the program’s intent to equip students to think critically and apply higher order analytical and problem-solving skills in international perspectives for their prospective clients or employers.
- Ethics – introduction and theories
- Sustainability – concepts and frameworks
- Governance - concepts and frameworks
Course learning outcomes
- Critically reflect on the theoretical and practice-based theories of ethics, sustainability, and governance, and the impacts these have on management and leadership.
- Identify and analyse ethical issues and apply appropriate knowledge and problem-solving skills to recommend solutions for such issues.
- Investigate social and environmental sustainability issues and propose sustainable business practices.
- Critically review cross-cultural issues, their implications on business, and develop competencies to recommend strategies including Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Apply principles of corporate governance to organisational management and leadership in the context of sustainability in business environments.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Group 1
Class number 63547
Section WS03
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 63548
Section WS02
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 63549
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Group 1
Class number 24144
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Group 1
Class number 28465
Section WS05
Size 30
Available 21
Class number 28466
Section WS04
Size 30
Available 26
Class number 28467
Section WS03
Size 30
Available 27
Class number 28468
Section WS02
Size 30
Available 16
Class number 28469
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 24
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