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Sustainability and responsibility in businessLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: YR00EM34

Credits

5 op

Objective

You understand the major driving forces relating to sustainable development especially at global level and recognise their influence in your own business.

You know the key theories, models and concepts of responsibility and sustainable development, including the ones that lay the groundwork for companies’ ethical and moral framework.

You are able to use the above mentioned models in developing your own business idea, company or organisation both operatively and in terms of business strategy by accounting for the social and environmental aspects.
You can assess the field’s best practices and methods relating to responsibility and sustainable development in developing your own business idea and business operations.
You can critically assess practices and discussions relating to responsible and sustainable development and the related arguments. You are able to communicate logically in your own organisations as well as business networks.

You can describe the characteristics and operation models of circular economy especially in terms of your own company and business.
You can manage change processes relating to more responsible business independently and interactively.

Content

What does responsible, sustainable and ethical decision-making mean?
What opportunities does global development offer?
What theories of responsible and sustainable development can be applied and used in the practical development of business?
How can companies and entrepreneurs act in a ethically and morally sustainable way?
How have other companies and organisations operated and what can be learnt from them?
Are business operations real or not?
How to pay attention to humanity in business operations?
How could the operating principles of circular economy work in practice, for example, in case of your own business idea?
What should be considered in managing change processes?
What benefits result from business operations and how to measure the benefits?

Enrollment

06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022

Timing

29.08.2022 - 31.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

4 op

RDI portion

4 op

Mode of delivery

20 % Contact teaching, 80 % Distance learning

Unit

Department of Business

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

15 - 60

Degree programmes
  • Master's Degree Programme in entrepreneurship and business
Teachers
  • Laura Hakanen
Teacher in charge

Laura Hakanen

Groups
  • YRKV22KY
    Yrittäjyys, ylempi amk

Objective

You understand the major driving forces relating to sustainable development especially at global level and recognise their influence in your own business.

You know the key theories, models and concepts of responsibility and sustainable development, including the ones that lay the groundwork for companies’ ethical and moral framework.

You are able to use the above mentioned models in developing your own business idea, company or organisation both operatively and in terms of business strategy by accounting for the social and environmental aspects.
You can assess the field’s best practices and methods relating to responsibility and sustainable development in developing your own business idea and business operations.
You can critically assess practices and discussions relating to responsible and sustainable development and the related arguments. You are able to communicate logically in your own organisations as well as business networks.

You can describe the characteristics and operation models of circular economy especially in terms of your own company and business.
You can manage change processes relating to more responsible business independently and interactively.

Content

What does responsible, sustainable and ethical decision-making mean?
What opportunities does global development offer?
What theories of responsible and sustainable development can be applied and used in the practical development of business?
How can companies and entrepreneurs act in a ethically and morally sustainable way?
How have other companies and organisations operated and what can be learnt from them?
Are business operations real or not?
How to pay attention to humanity in business operations?
How could the operating principles of circular economy work in practice, for example, in case of your own business idea?
What should be considered in managing change processes?
What benefits result from business operations and how to measure the benefits?

Opiskelumateriaali

Ilmoitetaan ennen kurssin alkua.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

Kehittämisprojekti oman yrityksen sisällä (tai liikeidean pohjalta) mahdollistaa yksilöllisen oppimisväylän toteutumisen.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

Opiskelijat tekevät kirjallisen kehittämis-suunnitelman oman liikeidean pohjalta tai omasta yrityksestä/organisaatiosta. Suunnitelma, jossa käsitellään vastuullisuutta ja kestävää kehitystä, pohjautuu tutkimukselliseen otteeseen ja työtapaan.

Toteutuksen osien kuvaus

Tavoitteet:

Ymmärrät kestävään kehitykseen liittyvät muutosvoimat ja tunnistat niiden vaikutuksen omaan liiketoimintaan
Pystyt tunnistamaan keskeiset vastuullisuutta ja kestävää koskevat teoriat, selitysmallit ja käsitteet mukaan lukien ne, jotka luovat pohjan yrityksen eettiselle ja moraaliselle viitekehykselle
Kykenet hyödyntämään e.m. malleja oman liikeidean, yrityksen tai organisaation kehittämisessä sekä operatiivisesti että yrityksen strategian kannalta huomioiden sosiaaliset ja ympäristöön liittyvät näkökohdat
Pystyt arvioimaan oman alan parhaita, vastuullisuutta ja kestävää kehitystä koskevia käytäntöjä ja niissä käytettäviä menettelytapoja oman liikeidean tai yrityksen toiminnan kehittämisessä
Kykenet arvioimaan kriittisesti aiheeseen liittyviä käytäntöjä, keskustelua ja keskusteluissa ilmeneviä argumentteja ja osaat kommunikoida jäsennellysti sekä omassa organisaatioissasi että liiketoimintaverkostossasi
Pystyt kuvaamaan kiertotalouden ominaispiirteitä ja toimintamalleja erityisesti oman yrityksen ja yritystoiminnan kannalta
Kykenet viemään eteenpäin itsenäisesti ja vuorovaikutteisesti niitä muutosprosesseja, jotka liittyvät vastuullisempaan liiketoimintaan

Evaluation scale

1-5