06210798 - CSR, Diversity Management and Business Ethics

Ethics, CSR, innovation and diversity management are the key-words and the key challenges for a responsible manager.
By the end of this course students will be expected to have developed a critical awareness of the complex range of ethical issues and the link between innovation and diversity which can and regularly do arise in the conduct of contemporary international business.

TARGETED KNOWLEDGE
Understanding the key concepts of CSR (corporate social responsibility) and the key levers in management of divers teams .

TARGETED SKILLS
Ability to design and manage a policy of CSR and diversity.

CSR DIMENSION
This course focuses on CSR.

 

1. Ethics, Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversity
2. The 5 pillars of the CSR strategy , greenwashing and bluewashing
3. Diversity in the work team
4. Acculturation, adaptation and overshooting
5. Diversity and discrimination
6. Innovation and diversity
7. CSR and diversity management tools

 

BOOKS USED AS REFERENCE:

• Bender, A.-F., Klarsfield, A. and Laufer, J. (2010), Equality and diversity in the French context, in: A.
• Klarsfeld (ed.), International Handbook on diversity at work, Edward Elgar, p. 83-108.
• Dobbing (2009), Inventing equal opportunity, Princeton University Press.
• Fussler, C., Cramer, A. and van der Vegt, S. (eds.) (2004), Raising The Bar: Creating Value with the
• United Nations Global Compact, Greenleaf Publishing.
• Laville, E. (2009), L’entreprise verte, 3rd ed., Pearson Education.

ADDITIONAL READINGS:

EMBLEMATIC BOOKS OR RESEARCH PAPERS REGARDING THE SUBJECT OF THE COURSE

• HARTMAN, L. (2005), Perspectives in Business Ethics, 3rd ed., Mc Graw Hill, Maidenhead.

(In particular this collection contains the article by Milton Friedman “The Social Responsibility of Business is to increase profits” and the seminal article also of Albert CARR “Is Business Bluffing ethical?”)

Continuing Examination
Nature of student work and proportion weight:
Case study coming from a real business situation (50%)
Individual essay (50%)

TEACHING METHODS
Lectures and case studies.


PRE-REQUISITE
Students should have an ethical approach to the management challenges in terms of corporate social responsibility and diversity