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Social Responsibility and Ethics
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Social Responsibility and Ethics

CSR Disclosures & Ethics
Created byProf Robert Ebo Hinson
Last updated 10/2018
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Understand How CSR Relates to customers
  • Understand how CSR Relates to Employees
  • Understand the Different World Views on CSR
  • Learn about Corporate Social Initiatives

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Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 2h 31m total length

  • Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures16:42

    Examine the credibility of CSR disclosures through assurance practices, including external audits and validity. Discuss regulatory, stakeholder, and capacity-building factors in African contexts like Ghana.

  • Ethics20:36

    Explore the origins and forms of ethics in business, examine ethical theories such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and relativism, and weigh the costs and benefits of ethical corporate conduct.

  • Conflict of Interest in Organisations16:06

    Explore what constitutes a conflict of interest in organizations, including financial and nonfinancial interests, perceived versus actual conflicts, and how disclosure and HR policies manage ethics.

  • Establishing a Company's Ethical Culture I17:29

    Define core values and mission, establish an ethical climate, perform stakeholder analysis, and apply moral development concepts from pre-conventional to post-conventional to pursue fairness and justice.

  • Establishing a Company's Ethical Culture II28:29

    Establish an ethical culture by treating customers and employees fairly, aligning incentives with core values, and enforcing a living code of ethics through training, leadership, and transparent accountability.

  • Ten Ethical Issues That Most Businesses Face16:21

    Explore ten ethical issues businesses face, including cost cutting versus quality and safety and over promising, plus how honesty, transparency, and regulatory compliance shape ethical practices.

  • Ten Common Obstacles to Ethical Business18:21

    Identify ten common obstacles to ethical business—greed, groupthink, tunnel vision, self-interest, labor-cost pressures, fear, and double standards—and learn strategies for accountability, transparency, and ethical leadership.

  • Ten Ways Managers Can Keep Their Companies Ethical17:34

    Promote ethics through independent boards, a company-wide code of ethics, and fair hiring, while engaging stakeholders and rewarding ethical performance to curb nepotism and boost accountability.

Requirements

  • Your Desire to Learn about Business and Societal Expectations of same

Description

Introduces the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as it relates to customers, employees, the environment and society at large. It also explains the sometimes complex relationship between business and society by focusing on assurance of CSR disclosures, ethics, conflict of interest in organisations, what it takes to establish a company's corporate ethical culture, and suggests ways managers can keep their companies ethical.

Who this course is for:

  • Advanced Level Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Students of Ethics; as well as any business practitioner

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