Objectives and competences
Student will:
1) understand the meaning and role of corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability in an organization.
2) recognize the comprehensiveness of the issues of responsible management.
3) gain an overview of standardised and non-standardized corporate sustainability system/models.
4) understand the foundations of measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts.
5) Gain an understanding of how to perform an audit of sustainable business excellence.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1) Introductions and definitions of sustainability management
2) Overview and categorization of corporate sustainability initiatives and concepts
3) Fundamentals of sustainability management and business
4) Innovative sustainability leadership, organizational culture and strategy
5) Sustainability reporting and performance measurement systems
6) Management systems and sustainability (SIST ISO 26000)
7) Examples of good practices and case studies
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and Understanding:
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Analyse and interpretof critical success factors of the implementation of sustainable management systems;
• compare and argue of corporate benefits of pursuing sustainability;
• developand apply the methodology for assessment of an organization’s activities from a sustainability standpoint and develop recommendations of improvements and/or alternative strategies;
• development of criteria for evaluation of the level of compliance with existing standards for social responsibility in a specific organization;
• interpret and compare different standardized and non-standardized corporate sustainability system/models;
• develop a framework for sustainable system management by taking into account the scope, purpose and objectives of an organization.
Readings
Epstein, M.J. & Rejc Buhovac, A. (2014). Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts (2nd Edition). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Bertoncelj, A., Meško, M., Naraločnik, A. & Nastav, B. (2011). Trajnostni razvoj organizacije. Ljubljana: GV Založba.
Hitchcock, D. & Willard, M. (2009). The Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations (2nd Edition). London: Earthscan.
Hohnen, S. & Potts, J. (2007). Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Visser, W., Matten, D., Pohl, M. & Tolhurst, N. (2007). The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
ISO (2010). ISO 26000: Guidance on Social Responsibility, Geneve, 106 p.
