Responsible Management

Department
  • Bachelor's program Social, Health & Public Management
Course unit code
  • NPGBA59
Number of ECTS credits allocated
  • 5.0
Name of lecturer(s)
Recommended optional program components
  • none
Recommended or required reading
  • Baumgartner, R. J. & Rauter, R. (2017). Strategic perspectives of corporate sustainability management to develop a sustainable organization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140, 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.146

    Fischer, E. F. (2014). The good life: Aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing. Stanford University Press.

    Kramar, R. (2022). Sustainable human resource management: six defining characteristics. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 60(1), 146-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.12321

    Laasch, O., Suddaby, R., Freeman, R. & Jamali, D. (Hrsg.). (2020). Research Handbook of Responsible Management. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966

    Latapí Agudelo, M. A., Jóhannsdóttir, L. & Davídsdóttir, B. (2019). A literature review of the history and evolution of corporate social responsibility. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40991-018-0039-y

    Malm, A. & Hornborg, A. (2014). The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative. The Anthropocene Review, 1(1), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019613516291

    Moratis, L. & Melissen, F. (2022). Bolstering responsible management education through the sustainable development goals: Three perspectives. Management Learning, 53(2), 212-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507621990993

    Piwowar‐Sulej, K. (2021). Core functions of Sustainable Human Resource Management. A hybrid literature review with the use of H‐Classics methodology. Sustainable Development, 29(4), 671-693. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2166

    Santana, M. & Lopez‐Cabrales, A. (2019).
    Sustainable development and human resource management: A science mapping approach. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. Vorab-Onlinepublikation. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1765
Level of course unit
  • Bachelor
Year of study
  • Fall 2025
Semester when the course unit is delivered
  • 5
Language of instruction
  • English
Learning outcomes of the course unit
  • • Students understand that human behavior on an individual, organizational and systemic level is responsible for the world’s history, present and future.
    • Students are able to identify dilemmas, ambiguities and paradoxes and to organize a dialogue between different interest groups in order to contribute to solutions for a sustainable society.
    • Students understand the circular economy concept and its role in sustainable resource management and waste reduction.
Course contents
  • • Sustainability from a humanties’ perspective
    • Responsible Management
    • Sustainable human resource management
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Organizational behavior a sustainability
    • Consumption, production, markets and sustainability
    • Anthropocene and sustainability; management of resources
    • Sustainability governance and sustainability communication
    • Market-oriented Sustainability Management
    • Marketing management, product/service design
    • Circular economy
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • In the course, various teaching and learning methods (such as keynote lectures, individual and group work, exercises, presentations, discussions, etc.) are interconnected in an interactive manner.
Work placement(s)
  • none

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