A series of Q&A questions. (case study) The knowledge of Business and Sustainable Development is required
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Module1MGMT2004Lecture.pptxWelcome to MGMT 2004 Business and Sustainable Development
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Dr. Hossein Mohammadi
Unit Coordinator
Building 402| Level 6 | Room # 616
School of Management and Marketing
Curtin University
Tel: +61 9266 7673
Contact hours : Monday and Wednesday 11am-12pm.
(Or please email to arrange a suitable day and time)
My Contact Details
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Introduction
Unit Objectives/Administration
Premise/Assumption of this Unit
Main Themes in the Unit
State of the World: An Overview
Concluding Remarks
Plan for this lecture
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What is my role?
Lead the team of local/overseas lecturers/tutors
To share my passion for learning and knowledge of the subject
To be your guide and not to be preacher on the stage
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Deep Learning:
Aim high (in this unit and beyond) – I am here to help
Gain discipline knowledge: why sustainable development matters for business?
Relate theoretical ideas to your own life/everyday practice
Organise & understand weekly themes into a coherent whole
Develop critical thinking and reflection skills
What do I expect from you?
Critical thinking is the attempt to ask and answer questions systematically in order to analyse the assumptions behind a certain position of others
Critical reflection is a method of examining the assumptions behind our own values and beliefs that we possess and then questioning them
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What does deep learning take?
Workload:
You should spend at least a few hours per week studying this unit:
reading, research, working on exercises when attending classes
Attendance:
You cannot learn:
if you don't attend
if you don’t ask questions
if you don’t participate
if you don’t prepare
Being informed:
Take note of all announcements made in lectures, tutes, and on blackboard
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Unit Delivery and Assessments
Class format
1 hour lecture, 2 hours tute
Reading and learning materials
Textbook (NOT mandatory)
Resources on Blackboard/Unit Outline
| Team Facilitation | 20% |
| Essay | 40% |
| Exam | 40% |
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Unit Administration
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This part will be reviewed in our first week tutorial.
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Examples of contemporary issues that will be covered in this unit
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Examples of contemporary issues that will be covered in this unit
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Examples of contemporary issues that will be covered in this unit
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Premise/Assumption of the Unit
Anthropocene era has arrived i.e. we have entered a new geological period where human activities are influencing the environmental outcomes as much as natural forces
Economy-first mindset may be preventing us from creating a sustainable (better) future for all in the long-run
Businesses have capacity to address environmental changes and their social impacts i.e. if we have the will and the right mindset, we can find ways to recalibrate and restructure our priorities
4 Main Themes
State of the World (Changing Business Environment)
Theories of Sustainable Development
Practices of Sustainable Development
Agents of Change: e.g. Consumers & Government
What on earth this unit has to do with business???
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State of the World: Why Does it Matter for Businesses?
Environment
Change or Decline?
Society
Attitudes, Values & Expectations
Policies
Government Regulation
Business
Threat or opportunity?
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Economic View of the People and Planet
Source: Diesendorf & Hamilton (1997, p.43)
So is there a problem here?
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Ecological View of People and Planet
Source: Norton (1984, p.114)
All individuals, organisations, and the environment in which they function are interconnected in a complex and elegant web of mutually influential relationships.
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10 Billion people by 2050 …
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Population Growth in Perth
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Lucky Country?
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The Value of Nature
Source: The Guardian 2019
Source: The Gaurdian 2019
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Economic Progress and Environmental Decline
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60% of world ecosystem services have been degraded.
Species extinction rates are now 100-1000 times above the background rate.
More than 16,000 species are now listed as threatened with extinction
Over a quarter of all fish stocks are overharvested and global fish catch is declining
Since 1980, about 35% of mangroves and 20% of corals have been lost.
Per capita freshwater availability is declining globally
By 2025 1.8 billion people will live with absolute water scarcity
75% of wetlands and bushland in and around Perth have been lost in the past 150 years
State of the Environment
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And what about that dirty ‘C’ word?
Is there even a debate on climate change?
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Is there even a debate on climate change?
Please double click on the photo (hyperlink) to watch the video.
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Tipping Point
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More erratic weather patterns and increases in “natural” disasters
Increased food shortages due to frequent flooding and drought
Rising sea levels of almost one meter predicted for this century alone
Habitat and species loss
A 2C rise means
