Study Guide

Objective

You understand the major driving forces relating to sustainable development especially at global level and recognise their influence in your own business.

You know the key theories, models and concepts of responsibility and sustainable development, including the ones that lay the groundwork for companies’ ethical and moral framework.

You are able to use the above mentioned models in developing your own business idea, company or organisation both operatively and in terms of business strategy by accounting for the social and environmental aspects.
You can assess the field’s best practices and methods relating to responsibility and sustainable development in developing your own business idea and business operations.
You can critically assess practices and discussions relating to responsible and sustainable development and the related arguments. You are able to communicate logically in your own organisations as well as business networks.

You can describe the characteristics and operation models of circular economy especially in terms of your own company and business.
You can manage change processes relating to more responsible business independently and interactively.

Content

What does responsible, sustainable and ethical decision-making mean?
What opportunities does global development offer?
What theories of responsible and sustainable development can be applied and used in the practical development of business?
How can companies and entrepreneurs act in a ethically and morally sustainable way?
How have other companies and organisations operated and what can be learnt from them?
Are business operations real or not?
How to pay attention to humanity in business operations?
How could the operating principles of circular economy work in practice, for example, in case of your own business idea?
What should be considered in managing change processes?
What benefits result from business operations and how to measure the benefits?

Evaluation scale

1-5