Outcomes-Based Course Syllabus/ Learning Program For Good Governance and Social Responsibility

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ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO

Mamatid, City of Cabuyao, Laguna
OUTCOMES-BASED COURSE SYLLABUS/ LEARNING PROGRAM

for GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Course Name Good Governance and Social Responsibility

Course Credits 3 Units
Course Description This course is designed to inform and stimulate discussion on issues of ethics and social responsibility encountered in the business setting. The
materials covered are intended to allow students to recognize and manage ethical and social responsibility issues as they arise, and to help them
formulate their own standards of integrity and professionalism. The over-all course objectives are to increase the awareness on the ethical
dimensions of business conduct; to contribute insight into the professional standards and the responsibilities of business students in future
careers; to develop analytical skills for identifying and resolving ethical and social responsibility issues in business; and to practice making decision
connected to ethical and social responsibility issues in a business environment.
Contact Hours/Week 3 hours
Prerequisite None
Course Outcomes A. Competencies
1. Define governance in business and recognise the legitimacy of business as an institution in a global society ;
2. Describe the ethical an current social responsibility issues and the influence of these issues on society, management decision
making, behaviour, policies and practices;
B. Skills
1. Know and understand regulatory requirements to develop appropriate board and committee functions.
2. Analyze and explain economic, social and environmental sustainability issues relating to business ethics practices .
3. Practice appropriate business responses and management approaches for dealing with social, political, environmental, technological
and global issues;
C. Values
1. Evaluate the extent to which social, ethical, public and global issues must be considered from a strategic perspective.
2. Engage effectively in leadership of, and participation in, group problem solving processes
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ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO

Mamatid, City of Cabuyao, Laguna
GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
COURSE OUTLINE AND TIME FRAME

Course Content/ Subject Matter
Weeks 1-2 Corporation and Corporate Governance
Weeks 3-4 Organizations: Their Political, Structural and Economic Environment
Week 4-5 Internal and External Institutions and Influences of Corporate Governance
Week 6 Preliminary Examination
Weeks 7 Models of Corporate Governance
Week 8-9 Agency Problems and Accountability of Corporate Managers and Shareholders
Week 10-11 Corporate Social Responsibility
Week 12 Midterm Examination
Weeks 13-14 Corporate Social Responsibility and Corruption in a Global Context
Weeks 15-16 Institutional Investors, Governance Organizations and Legal Initiatives
Week 17 Presentation Output
Week 18 Final Examination
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: GRADING SYSTEM:
1. Regular quizzes Quizzes – 25%

2. Group reports Recitation – 15%
3. Exams Project (Reflection Papers) – 15%
4. Reflection Papers Attendance/Behavior – (10%)
5. Research Paper Exams – (35%)
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LEARNING PLAN
Desired Learning Outcomes Course Content/Subject Teaching and Learning Activities Textbooks/References Assessment of Tasks
(DLO) Matter (TLAs) (ATs)
Weeks
4 1-2: Corporation and
Corporate Governance
- Introduce self to classmates and Course overview Classroom sharing (Introductions) Course syllabus
teachers - List expectations for the
course - Recall course rules - Write a Classroom policies Lecture Introduce textbook: Good Governance and
personal definition of good Social Responsibility Made Easy, 2015 Edition,
governance and social responsibility Students will engage in a free Dr. Christopher Biore et.al., DomDane Publisher
association exercise of ideas they
associate with “governance and social
responsibility.” Based on the concepts
they list, they will synthesize a personal
definition of the concept.
- Define governance and social Corporation and Corporate Lecture LCD Projector Quiz on the reading
responsibility. Governance materials
- Define corporate governance Students will search the website of the Reading Materials
-Describe the concept of theories in World Council for Corporate Good Governance and Social Responsibility Recitation
corporate governance. Governance and work on the mission, Made Easy, 2015 Edition, Dr. Christopher Biore
vision and objectives of WCFCG and et.al., DomDane Publisher
explaining the acronym PREEMPTIVE
Weeks 3-4: Organizations: Their Political, Structural and Economic Environment
- Understand and explain -Understanding the

organizational theory, structure, Organizational
design, Environment
centralization/decentralization and
levels.
-Discuss the implication of -Regulation
government regulation.
-Enumerate the advantages and -Relevant to the Existence
disadvantages of a government of Business
planned economic activity.
-Enumerate and discuss the legal -Imposition of Legal and
and administrative barriers to Administrative barriers
entrepreneurship
-Differentiate income distribution -Major Causes of Economic
and wealth distribution as well as Inequality
discuss the different causes of
economic inequality.
-Identify different political -Political Environment of
dimensions relating to business. Business
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THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Required Readings and Other Materials

Textbook:
Steger, Manfred B., Paul Battersby, and Joseph M. Siracusa, eds. 2014.The SAGE Handbook of Globalization. Two volumes. Thousand
Oaks: SAGE Publications.
Other Readings:
Aguilar, Filomeno V. 2012. “Differentiating Sedimented from Modular Transnationalism: The View from East Asia.” Asian and Pacific
Migration Journal 21(2): 149–171.
Bello, Walden F. 2006. “The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism.” In Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy, pp. 1-31. Quezon
City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Castles, Stephen. 2000. “International Migration at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: Global Trends and Issues.” International
Social Science Journal 52 (165): 269–281.
Carter, April. 2001. “Global Civil Society: Acting as Global Citizens” in The Political Theory of Global Citizenship, pp. 147-176 London:
Routledge.
Connell, Raewyn. 2007. “Dependency, Autonomy and Culture. In Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science,
pp. 139-163. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1996. “The Future of the State.” Development and Change 27(2): 267–278.
Lee, Ronald. 2003. “The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(4): 167–
190.
Lesthaeghe, Ron. 2010. “The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition.” Population and Development Review 36(2): 211–
251.
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Livi-Bacci, Massiomo. 205. “What We Can and Cannot Learn from the History of World Population. Population Studies: A Journal of
Demography 69(S1): S21–S28.
Mazower, Mark. 2006. “An International Civilization? Empire, Internationalism and the Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth Century.” International
Affairs 82(3): 553–566.
McMichael, Philip. 2009.“A Food Regime Analysis of the World Food Crisis.”Agriculture and Human Values 26(4): 281-295.
Sassen, Saskia. 2005. “The Global City: Introducing a Concept.” Brown Journal of World AffairsXI(2): 27-43.
Shiraishi, Takashi. 2006. “The Third Wave: Southeast Asia and Middle-Class Formation in the Making of a Region.” In Beyond Japan: The
Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism, edited by Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, pp. 237–271. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Steger, Manfred B. 2005. “Ideologies of Globalization.” Journal of Political Ideologies 10(1): 11–30.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. “The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World Economy: Production, Surplus-Value, and Polarization.” In
World-SystemsAnalysis: An Introduction, pp. 23-41. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Films:
“The Corporation” directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

“The Price of Sugar” directed by Bill Haney
“The Rise of ISIS,” PBS Frontline (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/)
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ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO

OUTCOMES-BASED COURSE SYLLABUS/ LEARNING PROGRAM

Course Name Good Governance and Social Responsibility

ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO

GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

COURSE OUTLINE AND TIME FRAME

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: GRADING SYSTEM:

1. Regular quizzes Quizzes – 25%

Weeks 3-4: Organizations: Their Political, Structural and Economic Environment

- Understand and explain -Understanding the

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Required Readings and Other Materials

“The Corporation” directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

Prepared by: Approved by: Noted by:

___________ _ __________

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