|
 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| ES 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take SP10043 and take SP10044. The unit may also be available to postgraduate students and undergraduates outside the Department of Social & Policy Sciences by negotiation with the unit convenor. |
| Description:
| Aims: i. To identify important changes in the boundaries and interactions between business and society. ii. To relate these changes to the evolution and impact of socio-political attempts at greater social accountability. iii To identify key social foundations on which business activity depends. Learning Outcomes: Students taking this unit should gain an understanding of: * the main types of social challenge to business autonomy. * current debates about business accountability. * key examples of the inter-dependence of business and social institutions. Skills: Intellectual Skills - develop capabilities to: * think creatively and analytically; * communicate an argument; * evaluate others' arguments and research; * critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information; * gather information, data,research and literature from a number of different sources (i.e.library, web-based, archives etc.); * select appropriate and relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge; * synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding; * utilise problem solving skills. Transferable/Key Skills - to develop: * essay research, preparation and writing skills; * to construct a bibliography of relevant complexity; * team and group working skills; * inter-personal and communication skills; * presentation skills and verbal communication (i.e. seminar discussions) * team and group working skills. Content: Changes in social and political challenges to capitalist enterprise. Philosophical, historical and social structural sources of these challenges. Socialist, corporatist and environmentalist and communitarian challenges. The social foundations of business commerce and trade: trust, association, community, values and citizenship. Anatomy of the Anglo-Saxon corporation and alternative forms of enterprise and business system. Social movement challenges and moves to Corporate Social Responsibility. |
| Programme availability: |
SP30072 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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