06290819 - Corporate Social Responsibility - Elearning (CforCSR© Training and Certification)

Crédits ECTS 3
Volume horaire total 21
Volume horaire CM 20
Volume horaire TD 1

Objectifs

(E-LEARNING)

With a historical socially open and responsible organizational culture, as well as being conscious of its impacts on its ecosystem, iaelyon makes a permanent and lasting commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Whichever the business sector or the occupation involved, the managers trained at iaelyon will need to be able to have a positive impact on society by offering actions which will contribute to the organizations’ transformation and to reconcile ecological, social and economic performances with the stakeholders’ fulfillment.

SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY DIMENSION

The CforCSR© platform completes already existing measures encouraging the students to have an open-mindedness towards sustainable approaches: voluntary and entrepreneurial engagements, PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) and Global Compact engagements, specific and intersectional lectures linked to CSR.

TARGETED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

The aim is to encourage the consideration and skills’ development on CSR and on business ethics as a manager.
It is also to develop a critical analysis ability on CSR issues at different levels and to set up appropriate plans of action.

Contenu

At least 2 resources of each of these 3 following foundations will need to be chosen and studied in detail:
  • Economy
  • Environment
  • Social

The resources from the module “CSR fundamentals” must be studied in detail.
The certification CforCSR, which needs to be taken after the previous studies, is transverse.

Bibliographie

REFERENCE WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS:

They are accessible on the platform.

WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS BY IAELYON UNIVERSITY LECTURERS AND RESEARCHERS ABOUT THE COURSE’S TOPIC

They are numerous, especially among researchers from the “sustainable performance” team from the Magellan laboratory. A few examples:

1. Capelle-Blancard, G., & Petit, A. (2019). Every little helps? ESG news and stock market reaction. Journal of Business Ethics, 157(2), 543-565.
2. Capelle-Blancard, G., & Petit, A. (2017). The weighting of CSR dimensions: One size does not fit all. Business & Society, 56(6), 919-943.
3. Godek-Brunel, M., & Mercier-Suissa, C. (2023). « Et si l’accueil et l’intégration des réfugiés devenaient un bien commun », The Conversation (popular science article).
4. Guillot-Soulez, C., Saint-Onge, S., & Soulez, S. (2019). Exploration des liens entre la communication de labels employeurs dans les annonces de recrutement, le mode de gouvernance et l’attractivité des organisations aux yeux des candidats. Recherche et Applications en Marketing (French Edition), 34(3), 6-32.
5. Mercier-Suissa, C., El Bekkari, M., & Suissa, D. (2023). « La relocalisation, un chemin semé d’embuches », The Conversation (popular science article).

Contrôles des connaissances

Individual grade
Multiple-choice questionnaire
module 13 « CSR fundamentals »: multiple-choice questionnaire after resources study and simulation exercises (scenarios).

Other grading(s)
Certification CforCSR
multiple-choice questionnaire after resources study and simulation exercises (scenarios).

Balancing: 50% module “CSR fundamentals” + 50% certification CforCSR

 

Informations complémentaires

This course in e-learning takes place asynchronously, at the pace chosen by the student over the semester. Live sessions are organized by the course director in order to discuss the different resources and the social responsibility of the organizations in general.


NATURE OF THE MEDIA
The e-learning course includes 4 types of resources: articles, videos, works and scenarios.


TEACHING INNOVATIONS AND USE OF TECHNOLOGIES
There is a dedicated digital platform on the Internet.


PREREQUISITE IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

RESOURCES AVAILABLE:

There are numerous resources, in French and in English, that are available on the platform, under 4 formats: articles, videos, works and scenarios.
The students can access these additional resources (academic articles, newspapers, videos, etc.) through the electronic library (accessible via their student account). The databases such as EBSCO, Proquest, Cairn or Sciences Direct give a very large access to academic articles. The databases Diane, Europresse, Factiva give a rather valuable access to press resources as well as accounting data.