From an organisational perspective, formulate a 5-year sustainable development plan for an organisation of your choice, focusing on corporate social responsibility and business ethics (e.g., workers’ rights, employee relations, child labour, diversity/cross-cultural management, environmental responsibility).
You should: * critically analyse the key challenges the organisation faces
* suggest a plan on how to address the key issues and improve the situation with a 5-year sustainable development plan
Use CSR related theories/models (e.g., Carroll’s Pyramid, Triple Bottom Line, Stakeholder Theory) to analyse the relevant issues and to support the sustainable plan discussions.
The 5-year sustainable development plan can be discussed utilising the timeline: Consider how you would manage strategic organisational change in the implementation of this plan.
General Assignment Guidance:
The word limit is 4,000 words including tables and reference list but excluding appendices (+10% leeway)
Your submission needs to be critically developed, rather than descriptive
Use academic references to support your points and discussions.
You must use Harvard Referencing
Indicative Assignment Structure:
Introduction
Main issues (key challenges faced) – critical discussions of the challenges (using relevant theories/models to analyse the situation, where appropriate)
5-year sustainability development plan – critical discussions of the plan (using relevant theories/models where appropriate)
Conclusion
Reference list (listing all (but only) the references cited in the text)
4. Assessment criteria and weightings (indicative)
Discussions of the relevant issues 20%
5-year sustainable development plan 30%
Application of relevant theories/models 20%
Analytical/critical elements
Academic style/professional presentations 20%
10%
RESOURCES
Key Texts
Archer,D. and Cameron, A. 2013. Collaborative Leadership, New York, Routledge
Bratton, J., 2015. Introduction to work and organizational behaviour. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Buchanan, D.A. and Huczynski, A.A., 2016. Organizational behaviour. Ninth edition, Pearson education.
Carroll, A. B., 2010. Corporate Social Responsibility Evolution of a Definitional Construct. Sage Publications
Chandler, D. and Werther, W. 2014. Strategic corporate social responsibility: stakeholders, globalization, and sustainable value creation. 3rd ed. UK: Sage.
Crane, A. and Matten, D. 2016. Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Dalton, M., Earnest, Deal,C. and Leslie, J. 2002. Success For The New Global Manager. London: Jossy Bass
Hawkins, P. 2014 Leadership team Coaching: developing collective transformational leadership, Philadelphia, Kogan Page
Hill, C. W., 2006. International Business, 6th ed. McGraw Hill
Hofstede, G. H., Hofstede, G. J., Minkov, M., 2010. Cultures and organizations: software of the mind: intercultural cooperation and its importance for survival. 3rd ed. New York: McGrew Hill.
House, R. J. et al., eds., 2004. Culture, leadership, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Lane, H.W., and Maznevskil, M.L., 2019, International Management Behaviour: Global and Sustainable Leadership, Cambridge University press: Cambridge
Schedlitzki, D., and Edwards. G., 2014 Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches, London: Sage
Tarique, I., Briscoe, D. and Schuler, R., 2016. International human resource management: policies and practices for multinational enterprises. 5th ed. London: Routledge.
Tourish, D. 2013. The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership. A critical perspective. London: Routledge
Trompenaars, F. and Hampden-Turner, C., 2012. Riding the waves of culture: understanding diversity in global business. 3rd ed. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
Tueth, M. 2010. Fundamentals of Sustainable Business – A Guide for the Next 100 Years, World Scientific Publishing
Wood, D., Logsdon, J.M., Lewellyn, P.G. and Davenport, K. 2006. Global Business Citizenship: a transformative framework for ethics and sustainable capitalism, London: M.E. Sharp
The above Key Texts are complemented by additional reading from:
Book chapters and journal articles downloadable from Brightspace as selected by the Unit Tutors;
Monographs, journals and other sources, predominantly made available online located via the Library Catalogue; and
Relevant Journals such as:
Employee Relations
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behaviour
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Human Relations
Human Resource Management Journal
Human Resource Management Journal
International Journal of Human Resource Management
Journal of Management Development
Personnel Review
People Management
Work and Occupations
Work, Employment and Society
New Technology Work and Employment
Management Learning
Management Decision
People Management
A detailed reading list will be provided in the unit guide.
