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DMBA6011: Sustainability for Organisational Success
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Technology is a key enabler of sustainability, and as such, a key factor in helping organisations to meet their environmental and social goals. This unit explores the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability, focusing on how related concerns impact on organisations. Successful leaders are increasingly compelled to demonstrate effective responses to a diversity of concerns that might once have been dismissed as externalities. These include climate change, carbon pollution, biodiversity, water, waste, impacts within the supply chain, on employees, on customers and on the broader community. The unit will consider how organisations can better assess their impacts on people and the planet, while simultaneously identifying the risks and opportunities sustainability presents to the organisation. The unit explores evolving approaches to sustainability management, governance, reporting and assurance. Students are exposed to a diversity of relevant and contemporary organisational practices and examples, with input from a range of leading sustainability professionals, and critical engagement with contemporary academic research. All of these elements are seamlessly integrated through a case that evolves and expands across each week of the unit. Collectively, these activities empower students with the robust foundations needed to effectively meet organisational obligations to both commercial and social stakeholders, to offer cutting edge expertise for organisational success, and to contribute to a more sustainable planet and society.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Accounting, Governance and Regulation |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Discuss and apply key sustainability concepts, strategies, frameworks, technologies and innovations within the context of organisational sustainability management, governance and reporting.
- LO2. Explain the importance of addressing both direct and indirect organisational sustainability impacts, and evaluate related risks and opportunities.
- LO3. Reflect on personal ethical principles within the context of organisational sustainability management, governance and reporting.
- LO4. Critically evaluate and devise contemporary responses to organisational sustainability management, governance and reporting.
- LO5. Communicate sustainability concepts, challenges and opportunities to expert and non-specialist audiences, both individually and collaboratively.
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Semester 1 2027
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2027
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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