MGT/360 Weekly Overview

MGT/360 Green and Sustainable Enterprise Management

WEEK THREE: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES Objectives for the Week

 Summarize strategies and practices businesses use to improve sustainability.  Compare costs and benefits for relevant sustainable business practices.  Develop a plan to improve sustainable business practices.

What You Already Know

Students are now familiar with different regulations and voluntary certifications businesses use to improve sustainability. Students have also discussed the major elements of an environmental management system and applied them to a virtual plastic injection molding company.

This Week in Context

This week’s materials introduce students to alternative products and practices businesses use to improve sustainability. Students compare costs and benefits of various business options. Costs may include ethical, practical, or financial concerns. Benefits may be financial as well as ethical or social. Finally, students suggest more sustainable strategies and practices in the virtual organization’s sustainability plan.

Assignment Overview

This week’s Learning Team assignment builds on the previous week’s assignment. Learning Teams use the worksheets and report from the previous week to make specific recommendations for the virtual organization to improve its sustainability practices. Students compare costs and benefits of various options before making recommendations.

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