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Instructors: Samanthi Luisa Silva
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Displayed in timetable as:
Sustainability
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Course description
The course explores the sustainable development goals (developed by politics), planetary boundaries (developed by research) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s vision 2050 (developed by business) as different international sustainability frameworks that could be used as guidance for a company’s sustainability strategy. Therefore, the seminar draws on concepts of the sustainability science literature (e.g. IPCC 2014; Rockström et al. 2009), but also sustainability oriented management literature (Clift et al. 2017; Whiteman et al. 2013; Häyhä et al. 2016) and polices (e.g. SDGs etc) and applies these to a practice example. To channel the debate, students are asked to go back to the foundations of stakeholder theory and apply it to sustainability management (Parmar et al. 2010; Schaltegger et al. 2017). At the same time, practice oriented approaches such as the ecological footprint and the sustainable development goals are explored (Haberl et al. 2004; Fang et al. 2015; Galli et al. 2016; Wackernagel et al. 2017).
In the course “Sustainability – concepts, practice and policies“, students are challenged to create a pitch for a successful corporation regarding their sustainability management approach (practice) by using concepts and policies. Throughout this simulation, students advance ideas through themes. After introducing sustainability to the transdisciplinary and heterogeneous group of students, the course will explore global and corporate indicators of sustainability, learning how to transfer global indicators to the corporate context. We will investigate sustainability management, in particular, sustainability performance measurement, assessment and reporting concepts and policies.
Regarding the course work and simulation, students are allocated to teams of 3 to 4 (depending on the size of the class) that will be the management consulting team that they work with. The team has been tasked to create a presentation (pitch) for a sustainability management concept for a multi-national company. Each group will work on a different multi-national company and pitch their concept at the end of the course (presentations) in front of the multi-national’s (simulated) executive board team. In the individual presentations, the executive board team will be simulated by another group (from the course), which will become chief financial, marketing, operations or human resource officers. For final part of the examination, the students representing the executive board team will write a management report, including an executive summary for the chief executive officer of the company.
Further information about the exams:
Four components are graded in the course, two individual and two group assignments.
Presentation:
“Simulation of the pitch for a sustainability accounting and controlling system as a management team” Written assignment:
“Management report with executive team as chief financial, marketing and human resources officers to chief executive officer”
Group 25% 25%
Individual 25% 25%
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