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Unit of Study MNG10253 - Sustainable Business Management (2018)

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  • Pre-requisites

    144 credit points in any SCU units

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

The unit applies the concept of sustainability to contemporary business organisations by examining a range of innovative environmental and social management tools.

Unit content

  1. Sustainability
  2. Sustainability and business
  3. CSR & stakeholders
  4. Sustainable economics
  5. Sustainable Business Models 1
  6. Sustainable Business Models 2
  7. Energy, carbon & climate
  8. Waste, pollution & recycling
  9. Sustainable production, supply chains and consumption
  10. Strategy & sustainability
  11. Life cycle analysis and sustainability accounting
  12. Social business

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
China - TUST N/A Session 2,  3
Melbourne N/A Session 2
Online Session 2 Session 2,  2
Perth N/A Session 2
Sydney N/A Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 compile a diverse array of academic resources relevant to sustainable business
2 expose the traditional business functions of marketing, HRM, accounting, economics, supply chain management and management strategy to the sustainability paradigm
3 evaluate the relevance of sustainability as a primary corporate goal
4 apply the new models of sustainable business to transform unsustainable business into sustainable organisations
5 contrast ethical and sustainable organisations with conventional business organisations.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. compile a diverse array of academic resources relevant to sustainable business
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  2. expose the traditional business functions of marketing, HRM, accounting, economics, supply chain management and management strategy to the sustainability paradigm
    • GA4:
  3. evaluate the relevance of sustainability as a primary corporate goal
    • GA1:
  4. apply the new models of sustainable business to transform unsustainable business into sustainable organisations
    • GA2:
  5. contrast ethical and sustainable organisations with conventional business organisations.
    • GA3:

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