Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Development of Knowledge and Understanding
The student acquires great depth and systematic understanding of a substantial body of knowledge base of social responsibility and competitiveness of an organization.
Understands different theories, definitions and methods and is capable of critical comparative assessment and building of the new knowledge base of social responsibility and competitiveness for the future professional life.
Acquires understanding of (corporate) social responsibility, selection of more advanced valuation methods, possibilities of transfer social responsibility into businesses and different standards of social responsibility.
Acquires in-depth understanding of corporate governance, strategic management, strategies and social responsibility interdependence form the viewpoint of development of organization content.
Gain the ability to prepare a scientific contribution (article or chapter in the monograph) with relevant theoretical / research knowledge at the forefront of the social responsibility, strategic management and competitiveness of an organization discipline for publication at peer reviewed standards / publication quality.
Ethical issues:
Acquires understanding of social responsibility development, its influence on future society development with including social responsibility (also the ethics of interdependence and cooperation) into business practice of competitiveness planning.
Cognitive and Intellectual Skills
The student:
Analysis: with critical awareness, can undertake analysis, managing complexity, incompleteness of data or contradictions and takes into account also interdependence in the areas of vision of an organization, business policy, strategies and social responsibility.
Synthesis: can synthesize new approaches, in a manner that can contribute to the development of methodology, and selects for research discipline / business practice most appropriate strategies and social responsibility viewpoints.
Application: can act independently in the organization in creation of social responsibility integration into assurance of competitiveness of an organization, can manage the processes of selecting, applying and developing of strategies. Is able to participate in the implementation of governance decisions in organization strategies.
Key / Transferable Skills
Can cooperate in team, prepare strategies, determine goals, motivate, negotiate and lead work effectively within team.
Can critically asses and individually perform research.
Can understand problems with requisitely holistic approach and is able to solve them.
Can prevent or resolve conflict situations within teams, because of social responsibility and ethics of interdependence understanding.
Has good skill in negotiating and handling of conflict with confidence.
Ability to take the initiative in the entrepreneurial realization of social responsibility to achieve the competitiveness of the organization.
Management of information: can undertake research tasks competently and independently
Autonomy: is independent and self-critical as learner, can communicate clearly and effectively with specialists and non-specialists – others.
Can determine and achieve goals and tasks in this area and can act in this area as a consultant.
Practical Skills
Application of skills: can operate in complex environment and contexts that may be at the forefront of knowledge.
Autonomy in skill use: can act in a professional capacity with responsibility and largely autonomously and with initiative in complex and unpredictable situations
Technical expertise: can compare social responsibility, strategies and competitiveness, performs smoothly with precision and effectiveness data base collection; can evaluate them and adapt them for new situations.
Readings
Štrukelj, T., Gajšt, N. (2019). Indispensability of socially responsible business policy. In Golinska-Dawson, P., Spychała, M. (Eds.): Corporate social responsibility in the manufacturing and services sectors (pp. 93–125). Germany: Springer.
Štrukelj, T., Mulej, M., Sternad Zabukovšek, S. (2020). Socially responsible culture and personal values as organizational competitiveness factors. In Nedelko, Z., Brzozowski, M. (Eds.), Recent advances in the roles of cultural and personal values in organizational behavior (Advances in human resources management and organizational development book series) (pp. 81–101). Hershey: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1013-1.ch005.
Štrukelj, T., Nikolić, J., Zlatanović, D., Sternad Zabukovšek, S. (2020). A Strategic Model for Sustainable Business Policy Development. Sustainability, 12(2), 1–28.
Štrukelj, T., Sternad Zabukovšek, S. (2019). Enterprise values and enterprise policy interdependence. Ekonomska istraživanja–Ecopnomics Research, 32(1), 2829–2849. doi: 10.1080/1331677X.2019.1650654.
Štrukelj, T., Zlatanović, D., Nikolić, J., Sternad Zabukovšek, S. (2019). A cyber-systemic learning action approach towards selected students’ competencies development. Kybernetes, 48(7), 1516–1533. doi OI10.1108/K-09-2018-0517.
Dodatne reference nosilca / Additional lecure's references:
DANKOVA, Petya, VALEVA, Milena, ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša. A comparative analysis of international corporate social responsibility standards as enterprise policy/governance innovation guidelines. Systems research and behavioral science : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, ISSN 1092-7026, 2015, vol. 32, iss. 2, str. 152-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.2254, doi: 10.1002/sres.2254. [COBISS.SI-ID 11701788].
ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša, ŠULIGOJ, Metod. Holism and social responsibility for tourism enterprise governance. Kybernetes : the international journal of systems & cybernetics, ISSN 0368-492X, 2014, vol. 43, no. 3/4, str. 394-412. [COBISS.SI-ID 11679004].
DUH, Mojca, ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša. The integration and requisite holism of the enterprises' governance and management as preconditions for coping with global environmental changes. Acta polytechnica Hungarica, ISSN 1785-8860, 2011, vol. 8, no. 1, str. 41-60. [COBISS.SI-ID 10630684].
ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša. Can strategic management show the way out from the current crisis towards social responsibilty?. V: MULEJ, Matjaž (ur.), DYCK, Robert G. (ur.). Social responsibility - sustainability, education and management, (Social responsibility beyond neoliberalism and charity, ISSN 2352-3336, Vol. 2). [S. l.]: Bentham eBooks. 2014, str. 137-177. http://www.eurekaselect. com/123209/chapter/can-strategic-management-show-the-way-out-from-the-current-crisis-towards-social-responsibility, doi: 10.2174/9781608059041114020009. [COBISS.SI-ID 11773980].
ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša. Izzivi za pametno - inovativno upravljanje in vodenje podjetja v okolju hitrih sprememb industrije 4.0. V: ŠAROTAR ŽIŽEK, Simona (ur.), et al. Pametna proizvodnja = Smart production : pametna proizvodnja - managementski vidik in vidik zaposlenih : [smart production - management aspect and the aspect of employees]. 1. izd. Harlow [etc.]: Pearson; Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta. 2018, str. 89-126. [COBISS.SI-ID 13286428]
VERŠIČ, Sabina, ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša. Strateški management, strategije in izbrani vidiki njihovega uresničevanja. V: STERNAD ZABUKOVŠEK, Simona (ur.), et al. Od strategij do drugih vidikov managementa : znanstvena monografija, (Serija znanstvenih monografij Izzivi sodobnega poslovanja, ISSN 2591-2461). Maribor: Bio energija. 2019, str. 1-43. [COBISS.SI-ID 13297692]
ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša, MULEJ, Matjaž, STERNAD ZABUKOVŠEK, Simona. Firm vision and policy innovations toward social responsibility for firm's long-term survival. V: TIPURIĆ, Darko (ur.), DABIĆ, Marina (ur.). Management, governance, and entrepreneurship : new perspectives and challenges. Darwen: Access Press. 2012, str. 200-216. [COBISS.SI-ID 11270428].
ŠTRUKELJ, Tjaša, MULEJ, Matjaž. Business policy and strategic management for the sustainable future. V: BOŽIČNIK, Stanislav, EĆIMOVIĆ, Timi, MULEJ, Matjaž. Sustainable future, requisite holism, and social responsibility : (against the current abuse of free market society). Penang: Ansted Service Centre, Ansted University Malaysia, School of Environmental Sciences; Korte: SEM Institute for Climate Change; Maribor: IRDO Institute for Development of Social Responsibility. 2008, str. [170-181]. [COBISS.SI-ID 9642780].
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