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GBM700 - Eco-Productivity in the Workplace I

Through case studies, field work and independent research, students acquire the language, framework, and tools necessary to complete a corporate green business report card. Students research the incentive programs, loans and grants available to improve business productivity. Students receive an understanding of government jurisdictions, regulatory agencies, legislation and the leverage points to influence these as well as other stakeholder analyses. Students define and design change management strategies for clients in transition to sustainable business practices. Students will identify and manage key data associated with environmental sustainability. Students identify key factors around investment decisions and risk factors.

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GBM701 - Economic Trends and Sustainability Models

Students explore the relationship between productivity and the environment. This course adds a global dimension to a student's repertoire of sustainable development management tools. Students examine the economic and environmental trends, global environmental concerns and environmental management trends that drive sustainability in business. While considering the impact of globalisation, students research business management tools that support global leadership in achieving sustainable business goals, such as performance measurement evaluators. Students analyze differences between traditional economic models and current models of sustainability. Students develop and utilize assessment and measurement tools that enable sustainable business practice recommendations.

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GBM702 - Sustainable Development: Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow

This course is designed to introduce students to the historical timeline of the Sustainable Development. Students learn communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills required to utilize green and sustainability language, to be agents of change in not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations, business entrepreneurs, industry, and government. Students analyze change management issues facing organizations transitioning to sustainable business practices. Students learn to communicate and advocate personal and corporate advantages of reducing one's ecological footprint in all sectors.

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GBM704 - Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics

Using cutting-edge analysis of critical issues and international best practice within Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability, students learn a hands-on approach to identify and manage the unprecedented risk and uncertainties in the economy and the environment.  Students will identify how to increase demand for ethical and socially responsible behaviour.

Working with a 'Partner Organization', students evaluate the effectiveness of the process their 'Partner Organization' has developed to pertaining to:

  • the identification and acceptance of responsibility for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and the environment through transparent and ethical behaviour that contributes to sustainable development;
  • stakeholder accountability;
  • compliance with applicable law and consistency with international norms of behaviour; and
  • integration of aforementioned components throughout the organization and practiced in its relationships.

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GBM802 - Green Marketing and Consumer Trends

This course focuses on the relationship between consumerism, marketing, and the environment. Students examine the role of advertising, personal selling and sales promotion from a traditional 'four pillar - 4Ps' perspective.  The student will develop creative and innovative strategies to shift to an operational perspective that has a 'five pillar' focus: Product, Price, Place, Promotion, and Planet (the ultimate partnership). Emphasizing the environmental benefits and the ethical and corporate market advantage of Green marketing, students create a Green blueprint for business, government, non-governmental organization (NGO) and themselves. Students analyze the impact of consumer behaviour on local and global environment using principles of ethical marketing and consumerism to become Green marketers.

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