ESG (environmental, social and governance) Leadership BUS5069

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course takes a practical-application approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration into organizational practice. It introduces regulatory compliance, supply chain auditing, ESG data and analytics, and leadership and innovation practices as they relate to financial services, FinTechs, and among the relevant business ecosystems that Financial Services and FinTechs serve and support. A key feature is in combining regulatory and compliance perspectives, which typically have annual reporting cycles, with the longer-term perspectives on value, strategic development, and leadership of organisations. In supporting professional education, learners will develop and ESG plan for their organisation and consider how this plan can be implemented and reviewed. 

Timetable

This course is made up of 6 weeks of online sessions. Each session consists of a combination of recorded lectures or interviews, online activities, as well as case studies and recommended reading discussions.

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Prepare a 2,000-word ESG plan for an organisation of the learner's choice, advising on the organisation's innovation activity, coordination of expertise and specialist groups, compliance process, strategy formation, and leadership development. 

Course Aims

This course aims to introduce recent graduates and early career professionals in the financial services and financial technology sectors to the areas of ESG policy and compliance, data and analysis requirements, and organisational and strategic opportunities. By focussing on ESG leadership, the course aims to equip learners with the practical knowledge, skills and capabilities to evaluate the strategic positioning of their organisation and to develop an ESG plan for their organisation.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

 

(1) Evaluate an organisation's ESG products and policies from perspectives within the organization and among investors and stakeholders

(2) Develop a comprehensive ESG plan for an organization in an industry of participant's choosing, with a particular focus on practical integration, strategy and leadership. 

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.