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2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS2690 Global and Ethical Awareness in Business

10 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: Maria McCabe
Email: M.E.McCabe@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

Please note; only students who are parented by LUBS are permitted to take this module. If you are not parented by LUBS you will be removed from the module automatically.

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module aims to develop your global and ethical awareness in business through practical experience of making commercial decisions via an online business game based on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Alongside this practical experience, you will learn ethical concepts that will be useful in making decisions and balancing competing demands. You will work in small groups to make decisions in the business game, but all the assessment will be on an individual basis.

Objectives

This module provides the opportunity to gain a practical awareness of ethical decision making in business, whilst recreating some of the pressures that might arise in a work context. Those pressures include meeting commercial targets and fulfilling statutory obligations and moral responsibilities whilst working to tight deadlines in a competitive environment. The tutorials and final assessment provide the opportunity to review the difference between actual and predicted behaviour and the factors influencing decisions.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this module students should be able to:
- Recognise ethical issues in a business context
- Identify rights and responsibilities
- Identify environmental considerations
- Explain the relative importance of competing considerations
- Increase ethical self-awareness through analysis of decisions made during the simulation
- Evaluate different ethical perspectives/concepts

Skills outcomes
Transferable
- Assess competing considerations when making decisions
- Apply ethical concepts to a business context

Syllabus

Indicative content:

Practical business simulation
Rights and Responsibilities
Contractual Obligations
Competing Considerations
Global Environmental Considerations
The Ethics of Risk and Moral Luck

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	12	1.00	12.00
Lecture	2	1.00	2.00
Tutorial	4	1.00	4.00
Independent online learning hours			15.00
Private study hours			67.00
Total Contact hours			18.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Students will be required to complete 5 online mini-modules, which would cover an introduction and a reading followed by comprehension questions. Independent learning will include reading the initial briefing materials and completing the final coursework.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students must complete tasks to strict deadlines including entering weekly (and sometimes twice weekly) management decisions into the simulation software and completing online modules. Marks will be awarded for completing these tasks by the deadline.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Computer Exercise	.	14.00
Tutorial Performance	.	6.00
Assignment	1500 word essay	60.00
Assignment	500 word reflective statement	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by coursework.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 20/12/2017

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