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BMGT45340

Academic Year 2025/2026

Business & Society (Mod) (BMGT45340)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Rosa Chun
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

The primary aim of this course is to provide an integrated understanding of Business and Society in relation to other key subjects such as Marketing, Strategy, OB, Communication and International Business; and to discuss how it is related to business performance (financial and non-financial).

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module, you will be able to:

- take a duty based traditional ethics further to find strategic solution to ethical dilemma, one that leads to performance of the organization.
- have opporunities to debate on the latest news, controversial cases,
- learn tools and models which allow ethics issues to incorporate multiple perspectives of ethical issues, via cross cultural and inter-diciplinary approaches.
- identify challenges and opporunities of ESG in business and society
- take part of forward thinking in business and society such as AI in ethics.
- learn how to apply theories to practice through combined lectures and lively case discussions.
- improve communication skills through various role plays during the case discussion.
- Ultimately, to identify ways to improve both ethical reputation and performance of companies.

Indicative Module Content:

This course deals with at least 20 hours of ESG related content in addition to an assignment focusing on ESG, accounted for 80% of the total grade. .
1 Three approaches in bus & society, models and measurement
ESG: Environment
2 ESG: Social
Ethical Dilemmas in world business
The Stakeholder Theory: Power and Interest
3. ESG: Social
Marketing ethics
4 ESG: Governance
Values and Codes of Conduct
5. ESG: Governance
Ethical leadership
6 Latest topics:
Reputation Risk, AI ethics

Student effort hours are 125 hours and can be broken down as lectures (20), specified leaning activies (50) autonomous student learning (51) online learning (4).

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

125
Total

125

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
learning by doing through lecures with matching case studies
reflective thinking through ithe ndividual assignment
develop strategic solution through the group project

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Group Work Assignment: Group assignment due Oct 3 Week 10 Graded No
80
 No
Participation in Learning Activities: Individual assignment due Sep 5 Week 12 Graded No
20
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

see the syllabus and shared google drive.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 2 Fri 08:30 - 18:30
Autumn Online Learning Offering 1 Week(s) - 0 Sat 08:30 - 12:30
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 2 Sat 08:30 - 18:30
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