Course Name: XGOODGOVSR

Course Title: Good Governance And Social Responsibility

Instructors: Guevarra, Morales, Requine and Salcedo

Required Text: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility by Griseri

Course Description:
The course aims to provide through understanding of the various
principles and aspects of good governance and responsible
citizenship. The course discusses the sound exercise of authority
(political, economic and administrative) to manage resources for
development. The following principles and aspects of good
governance are fairness to the global public, transparency,
accountability, openness and participations, resources prudence,
ecological soundness and rule of law. Code of Ethics for the
different professions will also be discussed.

Topic Outline: Estimated No of Hours

1. Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility 4.50

 Emergence of corporate social responsibility
 Defining corporate social responsibility
 Carroll’s pyramid of corporate social responsibility
 Arguments for and against corporate social responsibility
 Social responsiveness and performance
 Corporate citizenship

2. Stakeholder management 4.50

 From shareholder value to stakeholder thinking
 Conflicting interest and stakeholder importance
 Stakeholder theory
 Theoretical models of stakeholder management
 Stakeholder management in practice
 Implications on corporate social responsibility

3. Theories of ethics 4.00

 Theorizing ethics
  Ethical egoism and subjectivism
 Virtue ethics: ethical choices and the personalities of those who make them
 Deontological theories
 Consequential theories
 Justice and right based theories
 Cultural relativism
 Postmodernity and criticality in ethical theory
 Making sense of theory

4. Environmental ethics 4.00

 The current imperative
 The development of the concept “environment”
 Common resources, individual and collective responsibilities
 Approaches to environmental issues
 Opposition to environmentalism
 Green washing
 Sustainable development

5. The Behavioral Context 4.00

 The behavioral complex affecting ethical decision making
 Ownership and management
 Organizational structures
 Group and individual factors affecting ethical decision decisions

6. Ethics and corporate social responsibility in a global context 4.00

 The global context of business activity
 Operating in conflict zones
 Role of business in poverty alleviation

7. The business of human rights 4.50

 From regulatory vacuum to human rights as a management issue
 State failure turns the focus on companies
 Human rights issues vary by industry
  Impact of foreign investment on human rights
 Businesses as human right advocates
 Voluntary steps towards human rights

8. Civil society organizations 4.50

 Three meanings of civil society
 Characteristics of civil society organizations
 Advocacy of civil organizations
 Functions of civil society
 Influence tactics
 Corporate response

9. Governing organizations 3.00

 Defining corporate governance
 The key features of governance
 The national and international dimensions of governance
 Shareholders and agents
 Cross-organizational ownership
 Boards of directors
 The future of governance

10. Auditing and reporting social performance 3.00

 Overview of voluntary initiatives
 Development of codes over time
 Forms of voluntary codes
 Social accounting
 Drivers for social and environmental reporting
 Growth in reporting
 The global reporting initiatives
 Principles on report content
 External assurance

11. Managing ethics internally 3.00

  Managing corporate ethics
 Managing values
 Ethics officers and committees
 Whistle blowing
 Organizational information ethics
 Intellectual property and the free movement of ideas
 Ethical change environment

12. Responsibility in managing people and operations 3.00

 Managing people ethically
 Traditional human resource issues
 Redundancy and openness
 Human resource planning and staffing levels
 Intellectual property and common goods

13. Environmental responsibility 3.00

 Framing the link between business and the environment
 Solutions to environmental problems
 Environmental measurement and management

14. Giving back to society 2.00

 Overview of corporate philanthropy
 The oxymoron of strategic philanthropy
 Community programmes

Total Sessions Express As Contact Hours 54

 Recap

Identification of CPC Topics Covered in this Course Estimated

Contact Hours
Accounting 16
Marketing 1
Finance 1
Management 24
Organizational Behavior 1
Human Resource Management 1
Operations Management 1
Legal Environment of Business 8
Economics 1
Ethics 12
Information System 1
Quantitative Methods/ Statistics 1
International/ Global Dimensions of Business 8
Integrative Experience 4
Total Estimated Contact Hours 80