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Your presentation must follow a specific structure and address the following key points: 1. Provide an introduction to your chosen organization, including its size, products/services, locations, and any current sustainability initiatives. 2. Explain why sustainability is important for your organization in the current business context. 3. Outline the main barriers to sustainability relevant to your organization based on a brief literature review. 4. Develop a justified sustainability strategy for your organization that addresses the identified barriers. The presentation must be submitted online by Week 8 and include references to support your analysis. Weekly readings and activities will help prepare you to develop the required presentation.

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Your presentation must follow a specific structure and address the following key points: 1. Provide an introduction to your chosen organization, including its size, products/services, locations, and any current sustainability initiatives. 2. Explain why sustainability is important for your organization in the current business context. 3. Outline the main barriers to sustainability relevant to your organization based on a brief literature review. 4. Develop a justified sustainability strategy for your organization that addresses the identified barriers. The presentation must be submitted online by Week 8 and include references to support your analysis. Weekly readings and activities will help prepare you to develop the required presentation.

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Assessment - Presentation

This module is assessed by 100% presentation, which will be submitted online via Canvas.
2500 words. Weighting 100 %. Due by Week 8.
You are required to prepare an annotated presentation for your board. Each week will prepare
you with additional information to help you to develop their presentation.
Your presentation will be 2,500-words (29+ slides) and will require you to explore
Sustainable Business in the context of your own organisation, or another organisation you are
familiar with. If the organisation has multiple products / services, you may limit the report to
1 or 2 (as long as you explain this in your introduction). Indicative word/ slide counts are
suggested below.
Your board has asked you to prepare a presentation which appraises the multiple dimensions
of sustainability for businesses in general in the context of global challenges, and develops a
fully justified outline sustainability strategy for the organisation.
The presentation will follow this structure:
1. Title Slide, including the module code, course name, student number, student
name (not included in word count/ 1 slide)
2. Contents Slide (not included in word count/ 1 slide)
3. Introduction, a description of the student’s organisation (size, products / services,
location(s) etc.), any current sustainability / ethical initiatives, and a summary of
their suppliers (3 slides/ 300 words)
4. Background, In the context of your chosen business, explain why sustainability is
important (4 slides/ 400 words)
5. Brief literature review, outline the main barriers to achieving sustainability, and
why they are relevant to your chosen company (5 slides/ 500 words)
6. Analysis & Findings, refer to the Appendix. The appendix should include
Activities 3 + 4 from week 6 (This does not contribute to your word count but
should be no more than 2 slides) (4 slides/ 400 words)
7. Outline Strategy – prepare an outline sustainability strategy for your organisation
taking into account the barriers and findings from Section 5 and Section 6 of your
presentation to justify your recommendations (you may also refer to Activity 4
from Week 6 here) (6 slides/ 600 words)
8. Conclusion – summary and any additional insights (3 slides/ 300 words)
9. Reference Slide – list the references used to inform the presentation (1+ slides, as
required)

Sustainability in Business

Weekly topics

Week Topic

Week 1 Introduction to Sustainability, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Week 2 Sustainability Reporting and Challenges to Sustainability

Week 3 Global Business Trends, Sustainability Enablers and Marketing

Week 4 The Legislation and Theory behind the Sustainability Transition

Week 5 Cradle to Cradle and Material Choices

Week 6 The Circular Economy

Week 7 Sustainability and People Management

Key Readings
Core Text Book(s)

 Kopnina, H. and Blewitt, J. (2018) Sustainable Business: Key Issues (Key Issues in
Environment and Sustainability), 2nd Edition.

Key reading for each week

Week Topic
 Chapter 1 of Kopnina & Blewitt (2018) Sustainable Business (pp.9-18)
 Chapter 2 of Kopnina & Blewitt (2018) Sustainable Business (pp.23-43)
Week 1  Farcane, N. and Bureana, E., 2015. History Of "Corporate Social
Responsibility" Concept. Annales Universitatis Apulensis: Series
Oeconomica, 17(2), pp. 31-48.
 Nista NA, Jannuzzi CASC, Falsarella OM, Benedicto SCD (2020)
Society And Sustainable Development: Animal rights in sustainability
discourse. Ambiente Sociedade, 23.

Week 2  IPCC (2019) Summary for policymakers. In: Climate Change and
Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification,
Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and
Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems
 About Earth Overshoot Day
 Álvarez Jaramillo, J., Zartha Sossa, J.W. and Orozco Mendoza, G.L.
(2019) Barriers to sustainability for small and medium enterprises in the
framework of sustainable development—Literature review. Business
Strategy and the Environment, 28 (4), 512-524.
 Stewart, R., Bey, N. and Boks, C. (2016) Exploration of the Barriers to
Implementing Different Types of Sustainability Approaches. Procedia
CIRP, 48, 22-27.
 Miller, K. (2020) The Triple Bottom Line: what it is & why it's
important
 Elkington, J. (2018) 25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase “Triple Bottom
Line.” Here’s Why It’s Time to Rethink It
 Norman, W. MacDonald, C. (2015) Getting to the Bottom of “Triple
Bottom Line”

Week 3  Goworek, H. (2017) Sustainable Marketing (Chapter 10), in: P.


Molthan-Hill (Ed.) The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable
Management: principles and practice
 Feroz, A.K., Zo, H. & Chiravuri, A. (2021). Digital Transformation and
Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Research
Agenda. Sustainability, 13(3), p.1530
 Schmerber, L. (2020) Circular business models for
SMEs. CITYCIRCLE, pp.19, 23, 24
 Gurinlaura, J. Manley, l. Ariss, A. (2015). Sustainable Development
Goals and Open Data, World Bank Blogs
 Qazi, A., Hussain, F., Rahim, N, A., Hardaker, G., Alghazzawi, D.
Shaban, K., Haruna, K. (2019) "Towards Sustainable Energy: A
Systematic Review of Renewable Energy Sources, Technologies, and
Public Opinions" in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 63837-63851

Week 4  Moore, D. (2021) Long-awaited Environment Act passes into UK law


 Zero Waste Scotland (2022) Extended Producer Responsibility
 Smart City Sweden (n.d.) Extended Producer Responsibility in Sweden:
Towards better waste management
 Bukhari, M., Carrasco-Gallego, R., Ponce-Cueto, E. (2018) Developing
a national programme for textiles and clothing recovery
 George, S. (2021) Six changes to UK green policy that you need to
know about this week, Edie, 11 March
 Harrabin, R. (2021) New plan to pay farmers who protect winter
soil, BBC, 2 December

Week 5  Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (2020) Setting the


Standard for Water-Smart Denim
 C2C-Centre (2014). Case study: City of Venlo
 Stohler, S. (2021) McDonald’s announces global ban of toxic chemicals
in food packaging
 Kounang, N. (2016) Dangerous chemicals hiding in everyday products
 Carlson, C. (2020) Swedish designers create products from waste
materials for Metabolic Processes for Leftovers exhibition
 Toxopeus, M.E., de Koeijer, B.L.A., Meij A.G.G.H. (2015) Cradle to
Cradle: Effective Vision vs. Efficient Practice? Procedia CIRP. 29,
pp.384-389
 Bjørn, A., Strandesen, M. (2011) The Cradle to Cradle concept - is it
always sustainable? Poster session presented at The Life Cycle
Management (LCM) conference: Towards Life Cycle Sustainability
Management, Berlin, Germany

Week 6  Chapter 12 of Kopnina & Blewitt (2018) Human resource management,


green jobs, and a green economy
 This explainer on the Circular Economy Concept: The circular economy
in detail
 Schroeder, P., Anggraeni, K. & Weber, U. (2018) The Relevance of
Circular Economy Practices to the Sustainable Development
Goals, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23(1), pp.77-95
 Corvellec, H., Stowell, A.F. & Johansson, N. (2021) Critiques of the
circular economy, Journal of Industrial Ecology

Week 7  Chapter 8 of Kopnina & Blewitt (2018) Human resource management,


green jobs, and a green economy
 Harris, C. & Tregidga, H. (2011) HR managers and environmental
sustainability: strategic leaders or passive observers? The International
Journal of Human Resource Management, 23, pp.236-254
 Sustainable HR: a ‘green’ fad, or a realistic model for change?
Sustainable HR: a 'green' fad, or a realistic model for change?, CIPD
 Social and Human Capital Protocol
 Social & Human Capital Protocol
 Code of Professional Conduct, CIPD
 The Ten Principles, UN Global Compact
 Ethical Issues in HR, Management Study Guide
 Carter, A. (2015) Ethical dilemmas in HR practice: a paper from HR in
a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015, Institute for
Employment Studies
 Sports Direct staff 'not treated as humans', says MPs' report, BBC News

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