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GLMI 707 : Responsible Business and Sustainability

Postgraduate course

Project description

This course informs and investigates social and economic challenges facing business as we look to the future. In addition, the course encourages students to actively interrogate the meaning and actions of responsible and resilient business leadership within these contexts. This course is also designed to be responsive to both unfolding events such as the current CoVid 19 pandemic, and to broader student interests relevant to Ethics and Sustainability in Business. Core themes of the course will include but are not limited to topics such as Business strategies to mitigate against climate change and resource scarcity , Resilient and Responsible Leadership, technological adaptation and innovation , circular economy, future-proofing economies of wellbeing, Business, politics and power and Indigenous perspectives, principals and priorities. The course references the UNSDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Students will be encouraged to demonstrate the relevance of these goals to Business.

Year 2022

Location New Zealand

Organization University of Auckland

Project aims

Project outcome

By the end of this course, students will be able to: Critically discuss the range of meanings associated with the concept of sustainability and responsible business leadership (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 5.2) Identify different actors, ideas and institutions that affect the economic, environmental and social sustainability of business operations (Capability 1, 2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2 and 6) Demonstrate a critical understanding of contending arguments about the relationships among business, politics, economic development, society and the physical environment. (Capability 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2 and 6) Apply theoretical arguments about the actors, ideas and institutions that affect sustainable, ethical and responsible perspectives of business to specific contemporary situations and cases. (Capability 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2 and 6) Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of circular economy (Capability 1, 3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2 and 6)