Details for BUS503 Strategic and Ethical Decision Making

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: BUS503
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Critically analyse complex organisational environments using contemporary strategic management frameworks and relevant evidence.
2. Critically evaluate philosophical, theological and contemporary approaches to ethical reasoning in strategic and organisational decision-making.
3. Synthesise internal capabilities, external conditions, stakeholder interests, and ethical considerations to formulate and evaluate strategic options.
4. Appraise the ethical, social, and sustainability implications of strategic decisions in diverse organisational and global contexts.
5. Formulate, communicate and justify evidence-informed strategic recommendations that demonstrate ethical judgement, organisational responsibility and implementation awareness.

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Subject Content

1. Strategic Management and Ethical Decision-Making
   • Purpose, Value Creation and Organisational Responsibility
   • Stakeholders, Strategic Priorities and Competing Interests

2. The External Environment and Industry
3. Resources and Competitive Advantage
4. Strategic Options and Business-Level Strategy
5. Corporate and Growth Strategy
6. Strategic Decision-Making under Complexity and Uncertainty
   • People, Culture and Change
7. Strategy Implementation
   • Structure, Systems and Capabilities

8. Strategy, Sustainability and Social Responsibility
9. Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Ethical Challenges
10. Integrated Strategic and Ethical Decision-Making
    • Culture, Moral Hazard and Organisational Responsibility

11. Ethical Reasoning: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
12. Contemporary Issues in Strategy and Ethical Decision-Making: Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to face on site 
• E-learning (online) 
• Intensive (provide details) 

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Strategic and Ethical Environment Analysis (1,500 words) (20%)
2. Strategic Decision Board Paper (2,000 words) (40%)
3. Integrated Strategy Report (2,500 words)  (40%)

Prescribed Text

David, F. R., David, F. R., & David, M. E. (2023). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases (17th ed.). Pearson.  

Becker, C. (2024). Business ethics: Methods, theories, and application (2nd ed.). Routledge. 

Check with the instructor each semester before purchasing any prescribed texts or representative references