Responsible Leadership

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Understand the factors that affect the ethical behaviour of organizations and the individuals within them;
• Appreciate both short and long term consequences of ethical and unethical behavior;
• Show awareness of the main ethical concepts underlying responsible leadership;
• Understand how to implement responsible management practices, including ethical empowerment, in the workplace.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Write effectively for business purposes;
• Think critically and argue effectively;
• Develop skills in seeking out information from a range of online sources.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Achieve ethical confidence through practice in applying a logical and structured form of ethical analysis to complex business issues;
• Identify ethical issues and resolve ethical dilemmas through application of theory to practice;
• Assess impact of responsible leadership on stakeholder relationships and corporate reputation.

• Stakeholder theory and stakeholder management
• Responsibility and reputation
• Ethical awareness and moral imagination
• Moral philosophy and ethical theories incorporating notions of rights, justice and virtue and sustainability
• Organisational ethics and business ethics management - how to translate values into policies, practices, and decision making
• Case studies of responsible leadership
• Giving voice to values - ethical empowerment in the workplace.

Teaching methods include

• Lectures with regular practical exercises
• Class discussions
• Informal group presentations

Learning activities include

• Lectures
• Group discussions
• In-class assignments/exercises
• Group presentations

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class formative opportunities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: There will be many opportunities to gain feedback from the tutor and/or peers about your level of understanding and knowledge prior to any formal summative assessment In particular, class exercises and mini presentations in class will provide an opportunity for feedback from peers and tutors.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.