SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS REPORT
April 2011
The Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Surrey provides a
supportive and high quality teaching and research environment which is currently
home to over 100 academic faculty and over 2,000 students studying at all levels
from undergraduate level through to doctoral level. We are an international faculty in
a university with global reach and global ambitions. The faculty of made up of the
School of Law, the School of Management and the School of Hospitality and Tourism
Management and, in Autumn 2011, will be joined by the university’s School of
Economics to become the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
The work of the Faculty is driven by the University’s strategy: “to work in partnership
with industry, commerce, the professions and other institutions for the benefit of our
world. We will achieve this by providing scholarship attuned to the particular needs of
society, leading edge research and a rich and varied learning environment, all of
which will meet the needs of our students and other stakeholders”. The aims and
values of the University are embodied in six themes:
 Quality which underpins teaching, learning, research and scholarship;
 International impact as teaching and research cannot be constrained by
national borders;
 Distinctiveness through our links to the world of work and our enterprise
culture;
 Collegiality through our common commitment to the application and discovery
of knowledge;
 Professionalism through high standards and ethical behaviour from
academics and students;
 Sustainability through our contribution to an environmentally sustainable
planet.
Over the past 18 months, there has been significant upheaval and change to the
Faculty of Management and Law with the appointment of Professor David Allen as
the new Dean and the creation of the new School of Hospitality and Tourism
Management under the leadership of Dr Graham Miller. Our undergraduate
programmes have been reviewed, revised and revalidated and our growing Doctor of
Business Administration programme has been enhanced through it’s quinquennial
review. These changes have allowed, and will continue to allow, the Principles for
Responsible Management Education to be further embedded into the work of the
Faculty, especially in its teaching, its research and its service.
Teaching
In the design and development of curriculum, the Faculty has adopted a two-pronged
approach to making progress in the use of the Principles for Responsible
Management Education; First, the Faculty has worked to ensure that all programmes
have dedicated modules which address many of the issues raised by the Principles
for Responsible Management Education. For example:
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The undergraduate degree programmes run in the Schools of Management
and Hospitality and Tourism Management have a dedicated Business Ethics
modules which is open to all final year undergraduates. An increasing number
of students have been taking this module and this is also reflected in the
growing number of students who have examined, for example, issues relating
to Corporate Social Responsibility in their final year individual research
projects;
 A new module which examines the relationships and tensions between
economic and environmental sustainability has been introduced into the
Faculty’s flagship MBA programme. The demand for this module was very
much student led and has been developed in conjunction with the University’s
world renowned Centre for Environmental Sustainability.
Second, the Faculty has also worked to ensure that issues related to Corporate
Social Responsibility are embedded in other elements of its undergraduate and
postgraduate taught programmes. This frequently reflects the research interests and
expertise of academics who have been successful in introducing a range of issues
related to corruption into the School of Law’s undergraduate and postgraduate
curriculum and to issues such as corporate governance and social entrepreneurship
into the Faculty’s management programmes.
Service
In promoting its work to the wider academic community and beyond, the Faculty has
engaged in a series of activities aimed at disseminating research and practice as
widely as possible. Some examples of this work include:
 The development of the School of Management’s Learning Partnership. The
Faculty believes that we should practice what we preach; our organisational
practices should be a clear and accurate reflection of the values and attributes
we want to develop in our students. The Learning Partnership, which is used
as part of the academic orientation of over 1,000 new undergraduate and
postgraduate students each year, sets out a vision for how academics,
students and other stakeholders will work in partnership to allow students to
learn in an environment in which each of them is supported in fulfilling their
potential;
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In July 2010, the School of Law and the Surrey Law Centre entered into a
collaborative agreement and a substantial part of this is a volunteering
scheme for students to work with practicing solicitors to tackle the legal
problems of people who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor themselves;
The Faculty hosted an international symposia entitled “Corruption in a
Globalising World: Challenge and Change” which bought together academics
and practitioners to discuss how globalisation may serve to spread corruption
practices and the challenges for governance that this raises. The symposium
examined these, and other, issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective and
created a clear research agenda to drive discussion of the international
elements of corruption forwards;
In March 2011, the Faculty again bought academics and practitioners together
for a symposium on Whistleblowing which examined a range of issues such
as the relationship between accountability and whistleblowing, whistleblowing
in the UK civil service, the management technique of employee complicity and
a range of paradoxes in whistleblowing theory and practice
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management has run a series of seminars across the
UK on social tourism and its role in economic regeneration. Drawing on
international experience and expertise, the Network for Social Tourism and
Regeneration (NET-STaR) has been created which is driving the agenda
nationally on this issue and examining such as areas as tourism, family and
social policy, regeneration and spatial planning.
Research
The Faculty of Management and Law is a research led faculty and its research
activities have been important in promoting and embedding the Principles for
Responsible Management Education in the wider work of the faculty. Three specific
examples of this are:
 The Faculty hosts a research centre, also funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council, Combating Corruption, which is a leading national centre
of excellence in this area. Led by Professor Indira Carr, the centre has
delivered a range of high impact research outcomes ranging from scholarly
articles in international academic journals to working papers to books and
special interest reports. The centre examines corruption in a variety of ways
such as critical analysis of international treaties and their limitations, the
impact of anti-corruption strategies on businesses, whether Corporate Social
Responsibility can be used as an integral tool in fighting corruption and the
relationship between the emerging right to development and economic rights
and corruption;
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The faculty has developed closer links with the University’s Centre for
Environmental Sustainability through joint teaching of programmes and,
perhaps more significantly, joint research programmes which aim to combine
the management expertise of the Faculty with the engineering expertise of the
Centre. For example, a joint project is currently underway which examines
how international car companies are responding to the challenges of global
warming in the development of sustainable strategies and new product
design;
 The Faculty’s doctoral programmes, both the traditional PhD programmes and
the practitioner based Doctor of Business Administration programme, have
developed more capacity in knowledge generation which is closely allied to
the Principles for Responsible Management Education. For example, we now
have a range of students studying many related areas such as corporate
governance in countries as diverse as Iran, China, the UK, Thailand, Nigeria
and Saudi Arabia, sustainable tourism in a variety of international contexts,
entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship amongst women and minority
ethnic groups and access to tourism for disadvantages groups.
The Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Surrey is proud to continue
to support the Principles for Responsible Management Education. In times of
economic and environmental uncertainty, we believe that they offer a valuable road
map in helping academics and students navigate their way through difficult and
complex issues. We look forward to developing further our efforts in embedding the
Principles for Responsible Management Education in all the work of the Faculty.
Andy Adcroft
Dr Andy Adcroft
Director of Academic Development
Faculty of Management and Law
University of Surrey
Director of Academic Development