SBS signs up to UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME)

Strathclyde Business School, a signatory to the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), has now produced a report to share how the school has integrated the PRME principles into its strategy and everyday actions.

SBS joined the PRME in order to demonstrate to others the importance of being part of a body that promotes corporate responsibility and sustainability.

The mission of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative is to inspire and champion responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally.

The PRME are inspired by internationally accepted values such as the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. They seek to establish a process of continuous improvement among institutions of management education in order to develop a new generation of business leaders capable of managing the complex challenges faced by business and society in the 21st century.

In the current academic environment, corporate responsibility and sustainability have entered but not yet become embedded in the mainstream of business-related education. The PRME are therefore a timely global call for business schools and universities worldwide to gradually adapt their curricula, research, teaching methodologies and institutional strategies to the new business challenges and opportunities.

Taking the Six Principles as a guiding framework, the initiative is open to 'any institution which is willing to integrate corporate responsibility and sustainability in a gradual but systemic manner'.

The principles are:

• Purpose
• Values
• Method
• Research
• Partnership
• Dialogue

SBS aims to build on the successful initiatives already undertaken and explore new ways of integrating spcial responsibility and sustainability into all aspects of SBS. These include:

• Building on the successes and momentum from the new Management Development Programme first year class to transform Management Development Programmes in years two and three
• Developing new social responsibility themed Vertically Integrated Projects for SBS students, for example in providing accounting services to social enterprises
• Continuing to promote and support research on topics on social responsibility and sustainability within SBS

You can read the report in full here.