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Responsible Management Strategy of Apple
Case Study Analysis
The second mode of assessment is a Case Study analysis in which students explore an example of ‘responsible management’ in their professional field or specialist discipline, and include examples of evidence which have informed the analysis.
The Case Study Analysis format:
(i) A ‘Responsible Management audit’ of a leading organisation in the student’s professional field (Apple) or specialist discipline. Students must document and evaluate how far the governance, management and operation (e.g. resource use, behaviour and outputs) of the organisation they have selected complies with the Principles of the UN Global Compact by analysing a corporation’s annual ‘Communication on Progress’ report. This comprises four dimensions:
? Human Rights – Business should support and respect the protection of international human rights; and make sure they are not complicit in human rights abuses;
? Labour Rights – Business should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining; the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour; the effective abolition of child labour; and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation;
? Environment – Business should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges; undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies;
? Anti-corruption – Business should work against all forms of corruption, including extortion and bribery.
https://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/index.html
To accompany the Case Study report students must also compile and attach a small appendix of evidence sources which they have gathered to inform and substantiate their analysis. These ‘evidence portfolios’ must include no more than five artefacts (i.e. extracts from reports, articles, commentaries or other coverage) and a short commentary which describes and explains the significance of the items selected and inter-relationships between them. The maximum length of this commentary is 500 words (in addition to the 2,000 words in the main analysis). Items included in the evidence appendix should be attached as hyperlinks, scanned extracts from documents or conventional academic references rather than full texts, to enable the Case Study to be submitted electronically (see sect 5.3 below)
Word limit: 2,000 words for the main text of the Case Study analysis (plus a maximum of 500 words for the commentary accompanying the evidence appendix).
Students must state the word count in their submitted assignment.
The Case Study analysis comprises 50% of the overall module grade.
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Journals
Business & Politics
Business & Society
Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management
Ethical Corporation
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Corporate Citizenship
Journal of Management Development
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability
Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
SI Magazine – https://www.simagazine.co.uk/

 
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