Examines how businesses are responding to sustainability and climate change in the current socio-economic context, and encourages students to create alternative scenarios of future business worlds.
The call for businesses to become more sustainable is ever-increasing, and now many companies are adopting what they call sustainable practices. This paper will focus on exploring sustainability and organisations. It will largely concentrate on the socio-economic context of organisations to analyse the possibilities for sustainability. The paper considers the central tenets of sustainable development/sustainability and how these could operate in an organisation. It includes discussions of how organisations are responding to calls for them to be more ecologically and socially sustainable and how business is responding to climate change policies. Furthermore, there will be an emphasis on evaluating and critiquing responses to business being sustainable.
| Paper title | Organisations and Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Paper code | MANT337 |
| Subject | Management |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $912.00 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 36 200-level points
- Restriction
- MANT 437
- Schedule C
- Commerce
- Contact
- management@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
View more information on the Department of Management's website
- Teaching staff
Co-ordinator: Sara Walton
- Paper Structure
This paper is taught via lectures and tutorials.
- Textbooks
Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Lifelong learning, Critical thinking, Environmental literacy,
Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will
- Discuss the study of organisations within a wider societal context to understand the social and environmental implications of managing business organisation
- Discuss the notion of sustainable development as a "solution to resolve the tension of economy and ecology"
- Critically evaluate sustainability, sustainable development and climate change rhetoric
- Evaluate frameworks of business sustainability
- Be capable, socially informed and environmentally aware individuals and potential employees
- Understand and assess organisational responses to sustainability and climate change
- Provide recommendations to organisations in terms of sustainable operations and strategy
