Communication on progress : PRME report 2008
- Pforzheim University was one of the first 100 participants to sign the PRME initiative in March 2008. When we first learned about PRME we were immediately convinced that it was worthwhile joining it. It perfectly reflects our tradition and our mission statement. In the mission statements of our university and of the Business School we address our responsibility to society and we emphasize that our graduates should be able to contribute to corporate responsibility. Management education at Pforzheim University is mainly concentrated in the Business School. At the Engineering School the Business Administration and Engineering program is focused on Engineering as well as on Management. Furthermore, some of the graduates from the Design School and from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering programs at the Engineering School also find themselves in management positions and hence aspects of responsible management are also relevant for their curricula. However, the focus of our commitment and of our reporting is on the Business School. In the mid 1980s the Business School started to offer classes in Environmental Management as an elective. We gradually extended this to a module called “Ethics and Social Responsibility” which is compulsory for all undergraduates. Moreover, all our programs have integrated aspects of CSR related to their field of expertise - from accounting to marketing and to business law. The challenge now is to integrate these elements in a more systematic way and to define the learning goals and expected learning outcomes more clearly. In order to implement this process the Business School formed a group of professors (with Dr. Jürgen Volkert as head; juergen.volkert@hs-pforzheim.de) supported by a newly hired PRME Coordinator, Kerstin Anstätt (kerstin.anstaett@hs-pforzheim.de). This group will systematically investigate the ideas of our faculty members in various fields of expertise and initiate a discussion process on how to integrate and add to the given elements - especially based on the wealth of experience and insights we have gained from best practice of our partners in the PRME network. We are convinced that our participation in the PRME initiative will contribute to improving our education, the learning experience of our students and their future contributions to solving pressing problems in companies and society.
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:951-opus-433 |
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| Series (Serial Number): | Beiträge der Hochschule Pforzheim (139) |
| Publisher: | Hochschule Pforzheim |
| Place of publication: | Pforzheim |
| Contributor(s): | Martin Erhardt, Rudi Kurz, Hanno Weber, Michael Throm |
| Document Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2011 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/01/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Pforzheim |
| Creating Corporation: | Hochschule Pforzheim |
| Release Date: | 2021/01/26 |
| Tag: | Principles for Responsible Management Education |
| GND Keyword: | Betriebswirtschaftliches Studium; Führungskräfteentwicklung; Corporate Social Responsibility; Hochschule Pforzheim - Gestaltung, Technik, Wirtschaft und Recht |
| Page Number: | 35 |
| DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 000 Allgemeines, Wissenschaft |
| 300 Sozialwissenschaften / 330 Wirtschaft | |
| Classification of Pforzheim University: | Teilbibliothek Technik, Recht und Wirtschaft / Allgemeines. Wissenschaft und Forschung. Hochschulwesen |
| Teilbibliothek Technik, Recht und Wirtschaft / Wirtschaftswissenschaften | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
