Sustainable Business and Leadership
15.0 ECTS creditsThe course deals with economic, social and ecological sustainability and the leadership and management required to achieve sustainable operations in organisations.
Achieving sustainable business often involves an extensive restructuring of the individual organisation. Many businesses today lack basic knowledge of what is required. The course provides a broad understanding of how ethics, core values, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development influence and create new scenarios for business development and leadership.
Corporate governance entails that rights and obligations are specified for members of an organisation or those who have influence on it: management, department heads, shareholders and other stakeholders. Corporate governance is shown to build on interdisciplinary knowledge of financing, economics, accountancy, law, leadership and organisation culture.
The business is also described from a management perspective in terms of sustainable leadership, where leadership and managing service enterprises, using personal resources, diversity issues and leadership styles (including authentic/ethical leadership) are treated.
Students are required to analyse, identify and formulate a problem or a current event or phenomenon related to course content in a holistic way.
Achieving sustainable business often involves an extensive restructuring of the individual organisation. Many businesses today lack basic knowledge of what is required. The course provides a broad understanding of how ethics, core values, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development influence and create new scenarios for business development and leadership.
Corporate governance entails that rights and obligations are specified for members of an organisation or those who have influence on it: management, department heads, shareholders and other stakeholders. Corporate governance is shown to build on interdisciplinary knowledge of financing, economics, accountancy, law, leadership and organisation culture.
The business is also described from a management perspective in terms of sustainable leadership, where leadership and managing service enterprises, using personal resources, diversity issues and leadership styles (including authentic/ethical leadership) are treated.
Students are required to analyse, identify and formulate a problem or a current event or phenomenon related to course content in a holistic way.
Progressive specialisation:
A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements:
Business administration 90 ECTS cr. Upper secondary level English 6 or B, or equivalent.
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Master Programme in Marketing: Continuation Master (studied during year 1)
- Master Programme in Marketing: Master (studied during year 1)
- Master Programme in Accounting and Control: Continuation Master (studied during year 1)
- Master Programme in Accounting and Control: Master (studied during year 1)
- Master Programme in Service Management: Continuation Master (studied during year 1)
- Master Programme in Service Management: Master (studied during year 1)