Overview
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.
About this paper
| Paper title | Organisations and Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Subject | Management |
| EFTS | 0.1667 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1
(On campus)
1st Non standard period (24 February 2025 - 23 May 2025) (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,268.09 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- MANT 337
- Notes
- The distance occurrences of this paper are only available to students enrolled in the MSusBus programme.
- Eligibility
- Enrolments for the N1 occurrence of this paper requires departmental permission. View more information about departmental permission.
- Contact
- management@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
View more information on the Department of Management's website
- Teaching staff
Co-ordinator: Sara Walton
- Teaching Arrangements
The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught remotely.
- Textbooks
- Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Lifelong learning, Global perspective, Critical thinking, Environmental literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will gain a well-developed ability to:
- Discuss the study of organisations within a wider societal context to understand the social and environmental implications of managing business organisation
- Critically discuss the notion of sustainable development as a solution to resolve the tension of economy and ecology
- Critically analyse relevant sustainability, sustainable development and climate change rhetoric and relate the literature to particular problems or challenges facing businesses
- Critically evaluate frameworks of business sustainability and understand and assess organisational responses to sustainability and climate change and, as a result of this ability and understanding, be able to provide recommendations to organisations in terms of sustainable operations and strategy
- Present information and opinions in a logical and persuasive manner through both oral and written formats