Leading Responsible Business in a Global Context

Lead sustainable organisations in an increasingly complex world

Business today is about more than profit.

Organisations are increasingly expected to balance financial performance with environmental responsibility, social impact, and ethical governance.

From climate change and inequality to stakeholder expectations and regulation, leaders must navigate a rapidly changing global landscape.

On this course from Salford Business School, you’ll discover how responsible business practices and sustainability frameworks influence decision-making across organisations and industries.

Understand the forces driving responsible business

Begin by examining the global issues transforming how organisations operate.

You’ll investigate sustainability, governance, and the frameworks that guide responsible decision-making, while exploring how businesses align their objectives with wider societal and environmental priorities.

Navigate stakeholder expectations and ethical challenges

Modern organisations must respond to a wide range of competing interests.

You’ll analyse the role of customers, employees, investors, governments, and communities, and consider how stakeholder relationships influence business outcomes.

Along the way, you’ll examine issues surrounding ethics, inequality, and accountability in a global context.

Turn sustainability ambitions into meaningful action

Finally, you’ll focus on implementation.

Working with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and sustainability frameworks, you’ll discover how organisations translate strategy into practice and create long-term value.

By the end of the course, you’ll have developed a deeper understanding of responsible business leadership and the practical approaches needed to support sustainable change.

This course is designed for aspiring professionals, managers, and business leaders who want to understand how sustainability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, and stakeholder expectations influence organisational decision-making.

This course is designed for aspiring professionals, managers, and business leaders who want to understand how sustainability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, and stakeholder expectations influence organisational decision-making.

• Explore Sustainable Governance in Business
• Assess Global Frameworks and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Investigate Stakeholders, Power and Decision-Making
• Assess Governance in Practice
• Evaluate Inequality, Ethics and Responsible Leadership
• Critique Leading Sustainable Change and Future Practice