Business Management (2013) Teaching and Learning Resources: Sample Unit of Work - Corporate

Business Management 2013 Teaching and learning resources

1.Sample unit of work: Corporate social responsibility

Three sample units of work are available for Business Management 2013: Managing organisational change Making small-to-medium enterprises’ work Corporate social responsibility. The Corporate social responsibility unit of work is provided in this resource. It is not a full unit of work, and the materials provided are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. This unit of work relates to the context of corporate social responsibility. It demonstrates ways of teaching and learning in context. Schools may select from a range of contexts or they may develop contexts suited to student interests, school location and resource availability. Schools are advised to adapt teaching and learning experiences to suit student interest and the availability of resources. a. Guidelines for sample resources The sample resources incorporate the objectives described in the dimensions of the syllabus, include suggestions that schools may choose to follow, and offer flexibility to cater for a wide variety of students and school contexts. These sample resources demonstrate: organisation and development of course content teaching and learning supporting the syllabus learning experiences that support achievement of the objectives described in the dimensions alignment between content, learning experiences and assessment. b. Learning experiences Learning experiences support the educational goals of the subject and align with assessment. They are student-based activities that: provide opportunities to achieve the objectives described in the dimensions of the syllabus occur in authentic, relevant and worthwhile contexts vary in scope and depth, duration and degree of challenge reflect current practice in the wider community suit particular student needs, abilities and interests allow students to work independently and with others encourage students to think and act for themselves.

Learning experiences should provide a balance and variety of activities across the whole course and cater for the school’s context, resources and the unique characteristics of each cohort of students. Year and duration Year 12, Semester 1, 30 hours Context Corporate social responsibility (CSR) Area/s of study and focus Management Practices (MP) — Management practices involve business structures, the impact of internal or external environments on businesses, and the roles of business managers who plan, organise and lead businesses. Marketing Management (MM) — Marketing management involves businesses continually researching consumer markets and tailoring products, ideas and services to satisfy the changing needs and wants of consumers and society. Unit focus and overview Identified subject matter How does CSR contribute What is CSR? to a business competitive Why does a business need a CSR policy? advantage? How does CSR provide a business with a competitive advantage? How does CSR advantage and disadvantage different stakeholders? This unit analyses CSR What is the relationship between CSR and profit considerations? from a range of different How do ethical considerations affect business management decisions and behaviour? perspectives. Through the Identified underpinning practices use of case studies of Australian and local Communication strategies companies, students will Students work in partnerships, groups and teams to: examine CSR challenges support and contribute to achieve outcomes across a range of industry actively listen to others settings and develop work effectively with others, share ideas and encourage participation strategies for responsible management. speak persuasively to express views research the ideas and views of others accept responsibility and experience different roles within a group.

Management strategies Students work individually or in groups to: determine task allocation and resource requirements develop and manage timeframes and plans identify and test alternative strategies practise making decisions by considering the effect of management strategies (social, environmental, political and human) on stakeholders.

[Title] [Subtitle] Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority [Publish Date] Page 2 of 3 Assessment overview Assessment technique and Possible assessment task/idea conditions Bringing a local focus to corporate social Corporate social Students create a proposal for a local responsibility, students will create a proposal to responsibility feasibility study business suggesting how it could encourage a local business to become socially Multimodal become more socially responsible. responsible. 5-7 minutes Students evaluate existing business policies and formulate and justify a Individual socially responsible proposal for the business. In preparing to develop their proposal, students will have to: explain how a socially responsible policy will benefit the business create a questionnaire to interview the business’ management or marketing department conduct an interview select and organise data and information from other sources interpret the data and information to identify any issues for the business analyse the issues.