Managing Global Challenges

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Social problems on a global scale – from inequality to sustainability.
• The interconnections of the world and the implication of global issues on businesses.
• The main elements of global challenges including their scope and driving forces.
• Global challenges as opportunities for social and entrepreneurial actions.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Effectively communicate a complex topic in a way that is understandable to a wide audience.
• Develop global citizenship, awareness and perspective.
• Work independently demonstrating initiative, self-organisation and time-management.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop organisational solutions to global challenges through various methods such as social business model innovation.
• Analyse global challenge as an interconnected system across different dimensions of the international environment.
• Synthesise material from a wide range of sources in order to produce a comprehensive understanding of a multi-faceted issue in a global context.

The topics covered in this module will include:

• Global Challenges: An Introduction
• Social Entrepreneurship and Business Model Innovation
• International business environment
• Behavioral Insights for Tackling Global Challenges
• Global Inequality and Poverty
• Education: Global Access and Success
• Technology: Prometheus’ Fire or Pandora’s Box?
• Health: The Globalization of Disease
• Design Thinking for Tackling Global Challenges
• Ageing and Intergenerational Dynamics
• Ecology: How Much Can One Planet Take?
• Conclusion

This module will be taught in Semester 2 via a series of lectures taught by experts in the specific topic areas to provide you with essential background knowledge about global challenges and business solutions. The lectures will make use of illustrations, research findings, international reports and business examples to communicate the key issues associated with each topic. You will be expected to carry out directed reading and independent research before attending the lectures. In-class interactive activities, such as problem-solving activities, debate and discussions will provide opportunities for you to stimulate system thinking, global awareness and problem solving to get a better understanding of the global business environment and challenges entrepreneurs would face. You will also be required to work in groups on assessments designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of the subject area; this group work activity will support peer-to-peer learning.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.