摘要：霍迪详细地介绍了他与中山大学岭南学院合作的MBA学生的企业社会责任课程的全过程以及该课程的影响。
Nike. Several of the company’s local compliance staff attended lessons and brought valuable hands on experience to the class.
From the beginning, the Lingnan CSR course was designed for Chinese managers in China. Although Professor Xu and I believed that it was important for students to understand the global context, we agreed that it was just as important that they were given the opportunity to engage with those issues in a local setting. For example, we though it was important that students would be able to understand the language of CSR and the background to the key issues and debates, but that they should see how CSR played out on Chinese soil. To this end, the course started at the global level but quickly funnelled issues down to the factory floor and supply chain. We covered the debates as they play out in China (such as the debate over SA8000 as either non-tariff barrier or ticket to export success), and gave the students ample opportunity to discuss key issues as they relate to China. We set a mix of English- and Chinese-language materials, and set assignments that asked the class to assess local issues.
The course contained several highlights. The first was a session that analysed cadmium poisoning at GP Batteries factories in Huizhou, a uniquely Chinese CSR case study delivered by Professor Xu. Students were required to assess the case and indicate how they would respond as managers. We intend to publish a full account of the GP case study in an upcoming issue of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, an academic journal that CSR Asia manages in conjunction with ERP Environment and Wiley.
