YJOS4220 Responsible Management and Leadership (6 cr)

Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
Responsible organisation:
Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics
Curriculum periods:
2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Description

Contents:

  • Responsibility in management and leadership
  • Responsible management tools, processes and standards
  • Ethical problems and ethical decision-making
  • Ethics and leadership
  • Ethics, values and organizational culture
  • Social inclusion and gender
  • Company-stakeholder relationship

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the dimensions of responsible management and leadership
  • explain and understand theoretical perspectives in responsible and ethical management
  • recognize and critically reflect responsibility in managing social relationships
  • analyze, evaluate and solve ethical problems in different business contexts
  • understand the importance of decision-making in ethically challenging situations and enhancing ethical dialogue in business
  • create proposals and argue for how responsibility can be promoted by management practices and leadership activities
  • reflect their own skills and competences in the light of responsible management and leadership. 

Additional information

Priority to YJO and RESPO students.

This course discusses responsible management and leadership in the light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and discusses the role of responsible management in promoting the Goals.

Description of prerequisites

Recommended courses (at least one of the following): Business, Society and the Environment, Business and leadership ethics

Recommended prerequisites

Study materials

Materials are defined in the study program annually. 

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:
Contact teaching course
Evaluation criteria:
Accepted completion of the designated course assignments. The assessment criteria of the course is specified in the study program annually.
Time of teaching:
Period 3, Period 4
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Participation in teaching (6 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Evaluation criteria:
Accepted completion of the designated assignments. The assessment criteria of the course are specified in the study program annually.
Language:
English, Finnish
Study methods:

Contact teaching course (26 hours), required attendance minimum 80%. The study methods of the contact teaching course are specified in the study program annually.

Study materials:

The materials are specified in the study program annually. 

Teaching