Module Content

1. This module will focus initially on the system of corporate governance found in the United Kingdom because of the pre-eminence of the development of that system and its influence globally.
2. The changing approach to international corporate governance issues and the rules and principles that regulate corporate behaviour will be examined.
3. Among the key corporate governance issues examined are:
   • the development of various governance codes,
   • directors and their boards,
   • director’s remuneration,
   • regulatory responses to corporate scandals,
   • professional ‘gatekeepers’,
   • corporate governance failure,
   • current debates on tightening corporate governance, and the issue of convergence.

Teaching Methods

Preparation for the workshops will involve extensive research and reading, to consider and critically analyse the set topics and the discussion questions, set in advance, arising from those topics. Students are expected to prepare answers to the discussion questions and present these to, and discuss with, the workshop tutor and workshop group members. In addition to the skills of analysis and research, students are expected to develop and apply skills of analytical discussion, oral expression and writing. Students will engage with other students and staff in online activities, and synchronous and asynchronous workshops, to consider and critically analyse particular sources and engage in discussion leading to development of these skills.
The workshops also give students the opportunity to synthesise in a more dynamic way the independent learning already undertaken and apply principles from various themes covered in the workshop activity sheets.

Assessment Methods

This module is assessed through one Coursework and one Examination.