Postgraduate - UnitMBA5520 - Creating sustainable organisations

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Caulfield Trimester 3 2014 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Wendy Stubbs

Synopsis

Environmental, social and ethical issues are increasingly influencing business decisions. The ability to create value from, and mitigate risks associated with, environmental, social and ethical issues increasingly impacts markets, access to capital, company reputation and shareholder value. Through the use of case studies, lectures and guest speakers, this unit will critically examine sustainability challenges across a range of industry settings and develop strategies to address these issues.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

critically analyse concepts, theories and practice in the highly dynamic field of corporate sustainability management
understand the conceptual frameworks and practical tools to apply sustainability in an organisational setting
critically analyse competing demands on business and the ethics of business activity
further enhance communication, inter-personal, problem solving and critical thinking capabilities
develop capabilities to be future generators of sustainable economic, social and environmental value for business.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Amanda Pyman

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in one of the following courses to undertake this unit: 3183, 3184, 3185, 3189, 3190, 3191, 3195, 3196, 3197, 3198, 3837, 3839, 3849 or 0028