Study on Social Responsibility Learning Needs to Capacitate the Responsible Education in Business Engineering

Abstract

Abstract The advent of digital era and the growing competition require higher education providers to equip graduates with the right mix of skills needed for competing in a technology rich environment, delivering value-added to the market and to the economy at large. The responsible education has a pivotal role in addressing current business issues related to professional business conduct, citizenship and equity values, social and civic skills, and sustainable development concerns. The paper aims to investigate the implications of social responsibility concept in the education area and to examine the learning needs of business engineering students with respect to business, environment, and social concerns deeply embedded in the social responsibility framework. The results enable ranking the attitudes and perceptions, knowledge and skills of business engineering students and bring to light their straightforward expectations with respect to better promoting social responsibility strategies and practices, and the need to bring the world of work with toughest social and innovation issues in the world of education. Considering the research findings, the author paid attention to the responsibility of education to fulfill its role in society by adjusting the business engineering education towards sustainable development and by augmenting education through social responsibility teaching and learning components into the improved curriculum.