Workshop Code: SBM24031
Workshop Title: Managing Environmental Sustainability
Learning to manage sustainability in modern day organisations has assumed a degree of critical importance particularly with the introduction of mandatory requirements on curtailing greenhouse gas emission and resource conservation. Sustainability management is also considered an essential competency of inspirational managers. This workshop equips students with the necessary knowledge and professional skills for:
- Initiating, leading, monitoring and controlling sustainable business practices in their organisations, with focus on three key dimensions: economy, ecology and social responsibility.
- Sustainability considerations in the entire product lifecycle: from product development, production, sales to recycling or disposal.
- Analysing the big picture of not only ecological aspects but also key social and economic challenges and applying sustainable measures
- Achieving an optimum socio-economic-ecological balance in decisions and operations of an organisation.
- Applying creative thinking to generate alternatives that can potentially achieve a successful balanced outcome to resolve conflicts between social, economical and ecological considerations.
Contemporary organisations form committees, task forces, or similar organizational units to manage sustainability across the whole organisation as part of the regulatory requirements. Students who complete this unit should be able to contribute to these organisations in an effective manner.
NOTE: Intensive lecture sessions in each unit are followed by tutorial and case studies or project work sessions for deep learning outcomes. A knowledge assessment will be conducted for those participants wishing to obtain a Certificate of Attainment of a given unit of study.