MGMT2001 Corporate Sustainability
Later Year Course
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Offered By
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School of Mgt, Marketing & International Business
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Academic Career
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Undergraduate
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Course Subject
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Management
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Offered in
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First Semester, 2010 and First Semester, 2011
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Unit Value
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6 units
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Course Description
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In the 21st century, corporations cannot ignore the impact of increasing formal (regulatory) and informal (community) expectations relating to their impact on society and the natural environment. This course examines the scope of these expectations, explores the reasons behind these expectations, and evaluates the impact of these expectations on corporations operating in a dynamic competitive environment in a capitalist economy. The course takes the perspective of an individual corporation that wants to: examine both its internal and external environments to determine the range of sustainability issues that it faces; develop strategies for sustainable practices that enhance its competitive position; make a business case to a range of its stakeholders, including owners, for the adoption of those sustainable practices; and understand the principal barriers to the implementation of those practices.
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Learning Outcomes
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This course aims to promote an understanding, within the context of a capitalist economy, of:
- the importance to each individual corporate entity of corporate sustainability;
- the inter-relationship between the natural environmental, social, and economic aspects of corporate sustainability;
- key drivers and inhibitors, both external and internal to the corporation, of the natural environmental and social aspects of corporate sustainability;
- the roles of social and natural environmental risk, and product and process innovation, in developing corporate sustainability; and
- theoretical and practical constraints on the development of a business case for corporate sustainability;
and provide an overview of:
- the principal ‘toolkits' currently used by practitioners to recognise and appropriately resolve natural environmental and social sustainability issues in business; and
- current best practice in corporate sustainability.
The course seeks to equip students with analytical skills relevant to solving issues relating to corporate sustainability. Upon completion of the course students would be expected to have attained proficiency in:
- the ability to identify and analyse, within the context of economic sustainability, issues within a corporation that relate to its natural environmental and social sustainability;
- the ability to make a case to a range of stakeholders, including managers, Boards, and owners for addressing specific corporate sustainability issues; and
- the ability to develop appropriate policies and plans to address these issues.
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Indicative Assessment
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Individual weekly assignments (30%), Seminar participation (10%), EITHER group report and presentation OR individual report (30%), Final examination (30%),
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Areas of Interest
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Commerce, Interdisciplinary Studies - Sustainability, and Science
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Requisite Statement
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At least 24 units
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Incompatibility
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Incompatible with MGMT3001 Corporate Sustainability
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Majors/Specialisations
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Corporate Sustainability
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Other Information
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For further information please refer to the course website
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The information published on the Study at ANU 2010 website applies to the 2010 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2009 website.
