BUS560M – La Sallian Business Leadership Through Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

 

BUS560M – La Sallian Business Leadership Through Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

 

 

Perhaps if there’s an MBA subject that is considered a neutralizer to all other subjects, it will be this subject BUS560M – La Sallian Business Leadership Through Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Unlike in other subjects where the emphasis is only how to make profits or minimize costs for the companies, here, the emphasis is placed on how to think about other people and the environment more than obtaining personal gain/profit. The subject offers a different kind of perspective since it teaches us to put our feet on the shoes of other stakeholders, such customers, employees, community and the environment by analyzing the consequences of our decisions and actions. As shown in the diagram below, a company’s decision and action will always have an impact on the whole society.

 

The subject is also packed with complete set of topics, ranging from Businessman’s Vocation (Divine), Work-Life Balance (Personal), Family, Philippine Constitution (Country) all the way up to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Community) that is really a holistic approach.

 

 

Aside from lecture discussions, the cases presented in the class are very relevant and realistic. They are very practical, and yet what’s good about this subject is that we learn each and every Ethical and CSR framework, and we had the chance to apply all those frameworks to formulate our own alternative courses of actions and solve the problems in the cases.

 

 

Learning is fun. Learning without actual experience seems to be an incomplete learning. The best thing in this subject is that we have learned not only the Ethical and CSR theories, but we also had the chance to personally experience giving actual service to others through our community service initiatives.

 

Finally, the most important lesson that we learned, perhaps, would be that economic profit is the least important among Carroll’s hierarchy of CSR. Contributing resources to the community that improve quality of life is the most supreme of all. It even surpasses obedience to the law and merely doing what is right and just without doing harm to others. This framework is very much applicable even in our personal lives. Quite noble, indeed.

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Kate, Albert Ten. Royal Dutch Shell and Its Sustainability Troubles. Milieudefensie-Friends of the Earth Netherlands. May 2011