Responsible Management and Global Sustainability

Catalog description

Sustainability, responsibility, and ethics are the fundamental pillars of solid management practices in today’s business world. Responsible management encompasses techniques and theories that surpass bottom-line profit-making, baseline ethics, and fostering compliance in order to create more positive outcomes for society and the environment. The decisive goal of this course is to promote student comprehension and identification of what responsible management is and how a responsible firm can be developed through informed managerial actions. This requires that students learn to recognize stakeholders and the importance of their needs; comprehend methods of balancing competing needs; develop critical decision-making processes, and polish professional communication skills. For students to accomplish all these, the course will introduce concepts, reinforce understanding, and require analysis and application of knowledge and skills to a variety of situations presented in varying formats.