Corporate Social Responsibility – Environmental and societal risks

Synthesis

The course  is about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the analyze of societal and environmental risks and impacts for the companies when implementing and developing industrial activities. The course includes 6 chapters/modules that can be adjusted based on students’ prior knowledge:

–  Module 1 : Corporate Social Responsibility : definitions, Governance and Ethics, Sustainable Development Objectives and example of strategy

– Module 2 : Societal and environmental risks : definitions, analysis grids

– Module 3 : Legislation, studies

– Module 4 : Relationships with stakeholders

– Module 5 : Environmental and social impacts management

– Module 6 : The creation of local value : local content, development projects, sponsorship, social business.

 

The course includes a number of exercises:

– Several  exercises punctuate the first module.

– A multi components workshop, which highlights the development of industrial activities in a region, starts with module 2 and finish the last day.

– An exercise to build and develop a social-business project (distribution/sale of solar lanterns), at the conclusion of module 6.

Language

English and French

Audience type

Students: Bachelors, Licence, Masters, Engineering schools, Management schools,

Planned duration

15 to 18 hours, could be adapted

Support material

Slides power-point for presentations, exercises, workshop, Students are split in groups of three or four

Prerequisite

None

Objectives

Understand what is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and allow students to understand how these concepts can apply in their future professional life o Using concrete examples, understand what the environmental and societal risks are and learn how to analyze, control and reduce them o Analyze the support or opposition of stakeholders interfering with the company in the context of industrial activities and projects o Learn to find solutions so that the company can anchor itself on the ground, in the territories where its industrial activities are located, by creating local value (employment, education support, etc) .

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