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Demonstrate knowledge of multiple conceptual approaches for analysing and explaining the inter-relationships of business with local, national, and global political and social processes.
Apply knowledge of relationships between the practice of business with the practice of politics in a complex political and social context.
Communicate knowledge and arguments regarding global business issues in written, oral, digital and inter-personal forms.
Evaluate concepts and problems arising from the links between business and politics, and construct evidence-based arguments in response that address challenges for contemporary global business practices.
Showcase capabilities to work individually and collaboratively.
Demonstrate the capability to think and operate across diverse social, cultural, political and economic contexts.
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This Unit has three components. Each component considers different ways of approaching relations between business and society.
- The first component will introduce students to concepts of politics, the state, the nation, democracy, stakeholders, and advocacy. This includes the concepts of legitimacy, representativeness, accountability and transparency of business and politics along with questions of gender, race, disability, and intersectionality.
- The second component will introduce students to the world of business, finance, marketing, economics, and accounting and their social and economic context.
- The third component will link business with questions of gender, race, disability, and intersectionality