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Unit of Study MNG10253 - Sustainable Business Management (2020)

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    This is an advanced unit. It is highly recommended that students take this unit after having completed a tourism or management unit.

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
Session2,3
Melbourne N/A
Session2
Online
Session2
Session2
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A
Session2
Perth N/A
Session2
Sydney N/A
Session2

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 Evaluate the relevance of sustainability as a primary goal of business.
2 Apply the new models of sustainable business to transform conventional business organisations into sustainable organisations.
3 Apply the sustainability paradigm to the traditional business functions of marketing, HRM, accounting, economics, supply chain management and management strategy.
4 Evaluate organisational performance against relevant sustainability benchmarks.
5 Develop creative solutions to remove causes of unsustainability.

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

  1. Evaluate the relevance of sustainability as a primary goal of business.
    • GA5:
  2. Apply the new models of sustainable business to transform conventional business organisations into sustainable organisations.
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  3. Apply the sustainability paradigm to the traditional business functions of marketing, HRM, accounting, economics, supply chain management and management strategy.
    • GA4:
  4. Evaluate organisational performance against relevant sustainability benchmarks.
    • GA1:
  5. Develop creative solutions to remove causes of unsustainability.
    • GA2:

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