Ethics and Organisations: Responsibility and Justice (N1573)

15 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

The module aims to provide an investigation of the relationship between organisations and their stakeholder groups, and the social accountability and responsibilities that a corporation holds towards different stakeholders.

The module will introduce you to concepts of corporate governance, socially responsible investment and ethical issues relevant to contemporary business. It will be contemporary, interesting, stretching and relevant, and should build on and integrate with other modules that you have taken and/or are taking.

Teaching and assessment

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We’re planning to run this module in the academic year 2020/21. However, there may be changes to this module in response to COVID-19, or due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. It may not be possible to take some module combinations due to timetabling constraints. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Economics and Management Studies BSc
• Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Finance BSc
• Finance and Business (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Finance and Business BSc
• Finance and Technology (FinTech) (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Finance and Technology (FinTech) BSc
• International Business (with a professional placement year) BSc
• International Business BSc
• Law with Business and Management LLB
• Psychology with Business and Management BSc