Responsible Management

Department

Bachelor's program Social, Health & Public Management

Course unit code

NPGBA59

Number of ECTS credits allocated

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

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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