Syllabus, Credit and Evaluation

Marking Scheme for Half Credit Paper (50 marks):

30 - Term End Examination

05 - Attendance

15 - Concurrent Evaluation * (Any One or Two Tests out of A,B or C)

50 - Total Marks


* For Concurrent Evaluation, the Concerned Faculty will decide the type of test.


A] Written Home Assignment/Group Case/Role play or group problem presentation/Group or Individual Viva

B] Individual written assignment with open book mode

C] Class Test/Quiz/Multiple Choice Test

COMMON GUIDELINES


1] Concurrent evaluation will take place through Tests A,B,C

2] The above suggested system is for all the subjects i.e. half credit as well as full credit.

3] There will NOT be any external examination for half credit paper but only internal evaluation will take place in the above mentioned new format.

4] There will NOT be any retest or re-examination for any subject and in case student remains absent he will not get any marks.

5] There will be external examination for only full credit subjects at the end of the trimester.

Syllabus:


Subject: Corporate Social Responsibility Credit: H


Topics

I. Building Blocks of CSR / Sustainability

1. Overview of CSR/Sustainability

2. The Triple Bottom-line Approach

3. Philanthropy – Conventional and Strategic

4. Environmental issues

5. Social issues

6. Labour and related issues

7. Ethical and Governance issues

8. Human Rights – UN Charter


II. Standards and Codes

1. ISO – 14001

2. OHSAS – 18001

3. SA – 8000

4. OECD Guidelines for Multinational Companies

5. Global Compact

6. AA – 1000

7. BS / ISO Guideline on CSR Management (ISO-26000)


III. Engaging the stakeholder

1. Global Reporting Initiative Guideline G-3

2. NGO and CSR

3. Programs for the neighborhood

4. Markets at the BOP

5. Communication

6. Dilemmas

7. Dow Jones Sustainability Index / FTSE4GOOD Index


IV. Cases and Papers

1. What is a Business for? Charles Handy, Harvard Business Review, December 2002

2. The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, Michael E Porter and Mark R Kramer, Harvard Business Review, pp 6-16, December 2002

3. Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate, Michael E Porter and Class van der Linde, Harvard Business Review, pp 120-133, September-October 1995

4. What Matters Most: Corporate Values and Social Responsibility, Jeffrey Hollender, California management Review, pp 111-119, Volume 46(4), 2004

5. Corruption in International Business, Harvard Business Case 9-701-128, December 2001

6. Corporate Social Responsibility: Whether or How? N. Craig Smith, California Management Review, pp 52-76, Volume 45(4), Summer 2003

7. The Discipline of building character, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Harvard Business Review, pp 115-124, March – April 1998

8.Accounting Fraud at Worldcom, Robert S Kaplan and David Kiron, Harvard Business School Case study 9-104-071, May 2005, Management Lessons from Enron, B. Bowonder, TMTC, 2006

9. The Parable of the Sadhu, Bowen H. McCoy, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1997

10. Corporate Social Responsibility: the WBCSD, Geneva, 2004

Assessment: Internal Evaluation

General Reading:

1.Changing Course, Stephan Schmidheiny & BCSD, MIT Press, 1992

2.Harvard Business Review on Business & the Environment, Harvard Business School Press, 2000

3.The fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, C.K. Prahalad, Wharton School Publishing, 2005

4.The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real estate of the World, Bjorn Lomborg, Cambridge University Press, 2001

5.Cradle to Cradle: Remarking the Way We Make things, William KcDonough and Michael Braungart, North Point Press, 2002

6.Natural Capitalism: Creating the next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins, 1999

7. The Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-in (Conscientious Commerce), Bob Willard, 2007