Assignment: Course Project—Need for Sustainability Manager

 Module Readings and Assignment:

Complete the following readings early in the module:

• Read the overview/online lectures for the Module 
• From the textbook, Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, read the following chapters:     
  • Re-embedding innovation strategy
  • Building the sustainable global enterprise
• From the Internet, read:     
  • GLOBE-net. (2008, January). CleanTech investing: The green gold rush. GreenBiz. Retrieved from
    http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2008/01/05/cleantech-investing-green-gold-rush

Module Overview (Included As Attachment)

Assignment: Course Project—Need for Sustainability Manager

Instructions:  A Sustainability Manager provides a specific focus on the environmental and social concerns of the company. In this assignment you will explore the importance of this position and the incorporated responsibilities. 

 Download and review the Top Shelf scenario so far. (Included As Attachment)

Review what happens next at Top Shelf:

Top Shelf has a fairly typical ratio of managers to employees. However, your team knows that having a dedicated staff to focus on sustainability has worked well at other companies.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research sustainable management. Identify and research companies that have a sustainability manager (SM) or a similar position. Select three companies for use in this assignment. At least one of the three selected companies should also be in the retail industry. 

Prepare a report making a case for Top Shelf to hire an SM. Cover the following in your report:

• Explain the role and importance of an SM within a company.
• Analyze the approach of your selected three companies toward sustainable management.
• Provide rationale for Top Shelf to have a management focus on sustainability.
• Explain the specific responsibilities the SM will take up at Top Shelf and the benefits and costs associated with the hire.

 Write a 2–3-page report in Word format.  

Turned-in on time, Grading criteria followed All assignment qualifications addressed correctly, Grading Criteria followed, Include Question followed by the answer  Reference Page Included Cover page Included, Paragraphs  Indented,  Running-head included, main heading should be centered; all  new  paragraphs should be indented;  paper should be right ragged,   not right justified; references,  should always go on a standalone  page. abstracts are not usually indented; acronyms should be spelled out when using them  for  the first time, for example HR. references as listed are APA  standard.   When you  submit your papers through turnitin.com, your overall  similarity  index  score should not be exceedingly high, with   ten to  fifteen percent  being  the maximum,  Please make sure your APA  formatting of citations. I have provided the  APA resource cite for you. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01, Please work on using literature within the span of the last 5 years,  keep in mind there should not be any one, two, or three sentence  paragraphs 

Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

By Monday October 1, 2018, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area. 

Grading Criteria & Maximum Points:

Explained the role and importance of an SM within a company. 20 points

Analyzed the approach of your selected three companies toward sustainable management. 20 points

Provided a rationale for Top Shelf to have a management focus on sustainability.

20 points

Explained the specific responsibilities the SM will take up at Top Shelf and the benefits and costs associated with the hire. 24 points

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. 16 points

Total: 100 points