Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Unit Reference Number Unit Title Unit Level Number of Credits Total Qualification Time (TQT) Guided Learning Hours (GLH) Mandatory / Optional Unit Grading Structure
A/617/6042 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. 5 20 200 hours 80 Mandatory Pass / Fail
Unit Aims The aim of this unit is to make students aware of the importance of values and ethics in business. This unit also provides a background to ethics as a prelude to understanding the skills of ethical decisionmaking and explores how to apply those skills to the real and current challenges. Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Learning OutcomesThe learner will: 1. Understand value and ethics in business management.
2. Understand knowledge management and fair judgement in business.
3. Understand the management of change and transformation in a business setting.
4. Understand corporate social responsibility in business management.
Assessment CriteriaThe learner can: 1.1 Explain the concepts of values and business ethics in business. 1.2 Explain ethical decision-making in business management. 1.3 Analyse the ethics management process utilised in business management. 2.1 Analyse the concepts of knowledge and fair judgement in management in a business context. 2.2 Evaluate the contribution of knowledge management and fair judgement to business. 2.3 Evaluate the impact of business knowledge on the supply chain process in business management. 3.1 Explain the meaning of change within a business setting. 3.2 Evaluate how change transforms the dynamics of business operations within a business setting. 3.3 Analyse the processes and challenges of transformation within the business environment. 4.1 Explain the concept of corporate social responsibility in business. 4.2 Analyse the concept of corporate governance in business management. 4.3 Evaluate the impact of corporate governance on ethical business behaviour in business management.
Indicative Content Learning Outcome 1: Creating an Ethical Workplace, Fair Treatment, Acting with Integrity, Dealing with Unethical Business Values, forum for Confidential Complaints, Following Same Rules, Open and
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