units

MGX5691

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 25 April 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Business and Economics
Organisational UnitDepartment of Management
OfferedCaulfield First semester 2014 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)Dr Dayna Simpson

Synopsis

This unit integrates concepts from both operations and supply chain management toward strategic goals of more sustainable production systems. By combining recent theory and practical examples, this unit provides students with tools that allow companies to reduce their overall resource use, manage their social and environmental risks at the extended enterprise level and design products and processes toward sustainable resource use. Specific topics include management systems for risk reduction and compliance, sustainable transport and distribution, closed-loop issues, mid-tier value chains, extended enterprise issues (e.g. certification and monitoring of suppliers), supplier development, technology protection and ethics. Topics are addressed from predominantly design and behavioural perspectives.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. understand the environmental and social implications of global production and distribution
  2. recognise and implement more sustainable design in processes and products
  3. understand the implications of sustainability for organisational survival and the role that operations plays in facilitating sustainability
  4. understand the technological and behavioural dimensions of sustainable process and product innovation
  5. understand the application of these dimensions in local, regional and global supply chains.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dayna Simpson

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester