{"id":1415,"date":"2020-12-14T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/?page_id=1415"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:39:14","slug":"business-ethics-and-social-responsibility-6-credits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/courses\/business-ethics-and-social-responsibility-6-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Business ethics and social responsibility (6 credits)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1415\" class=\"elementor elementor-1415\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-07ec5f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"07ec5f1\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"893bf6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Business ethics and social responsibility<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89de58a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"89de58a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">[6 CREDITS]<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d56d08b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d56d08b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b086588\" data-id=\"b086588\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1dc3821 mi-big-title elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1dc3821\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Introduction<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b930178 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b930178\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This course is a complement to: Principles for Management of Corporate Sustainability and moves in to the context of sustainable development by considering ways in which businesses can operate in a way that is consistent with the concept of a corporation\u2019s responsibility to society and will examine the gap between business compliance and business ethics in the face of changing societal expectations.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The course will:<\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>Explore approaches to business and sustainable development and evaluate how they might be implemented.<\/li><li>Introduce the important concept of a corporation\u2019s responsibility to society and its various elements such as the \u201csocial contract\u201d.<\/li><li>Discuss issues such as human rights, labour practices, fair trade and community \/ stakeholder engagement<\/li><li>Examine international standards and conventions of the United Nations and International Labour organization (ILO) as well as voluntary standards for environmental and social responsibility<\/li><li>This takes us into a discussion about the study of moral philosophies and ethics and the issues of human rights, labour practices, and community engagement. International standards and conventions of the United Nations such as International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the declaration of Human Rights will be discussed.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Topics will include: the meaning of Corporate Responsibility from the business context, the elements, and usage, of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Review of human rights and associated conventions including UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), a discussion of the Guidance Document on Corporate Social Responsibility ISO 26000, the up-take of the\u00a0 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tools associated with culture change and organizational change, stakeholder engagement and accountability, management and an introduction to financial drivers that are shaping understanding of impact versus outcome.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assessment: 100% coursework<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLGP7109 Business ethics and social responsibility [6 CREDITS] Introduction This course is a complement to: Principles for Management of Corporate Sustainability and moves in to the context of sustainable development by considering ways in which businesses can operate in a way that is consistent with the concept of a corporation\u2019s responsibility to society and will &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/courses\/business-ethics-and-social-responsibility-6-credits\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Business ethics and social responsibility (6 credits)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":697,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions\/6651"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsg.hku.hk\/slgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}