Single course
Sustainability and Responsibility
Content
Development phases of sustainable thinking in business context.
Currently perceived basic level of sustainability in corporations now and in the future.
Corporate social, financial and environmental responsibility.
UN Global Compact, ISO standards, legistlation.
Study of sustainable megatrends, values and ethics.
Objectives
Sustainability & responsibility is much more than just sorting your trashes and taking them out to the right bins. Sustainable sourcing and production methods througout the supply chain are a must nowadays and corporate responsibility is the basic prerequisite for companies to exist. On this course you will learn how globally acknowledged responsibility initiatives, e.g. UN Global Compact, affect on corporate governance.
Course Competencies:
Competences to be promoted and assessed in this course include analysing skills, ability to consult and apply norms and codes related to sustainability and responsibility, awareness of societal, health and safety, environmental, economic and industrial implications and responsibility in decision making.
Learning outcomes in the course:
You will learn the significance of responsibility aspects in business. You know how to evaluate sustainability reporting and how environmental, financial and social responsibility are linked into business processes, logistics and strategic management of the companies. You acquire basic understanding of standards and legistlation related to sustainability and responsibility.
Implementation methods
For full-time students completion of the course includes contact lessons at campus and learning assignments. Some of the learning assignments are done individually, some in small groups, some require independent work.
Multi-modal students and other online learners (e.g. open university) study online. For specified student groups studying online, the course is implemented virtually, which includes self-study (independent learning tasks or group learning tasks).
The assignments are described in more detail in the course workspace.
The first assignment on this course is mandatory for all students and must be completed within 3 weeks from the beginning of the course. Students that have not completed this first assignment, will be removed from the course.
Additional information
Enrolling on open studies requires a Finnish personal identity number and strong identification.
Make a strong identification in the suomi.fi service or with HAKA credentials when You do the enrollment. Otherwise, you will need either a valid passport or an EU ID card with a chip (according to the ICAO 9303 E-MRTD standard). In this case, please contact help.jamk.fi
Please notice, that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enrol as Jamk Open UAS students (instead enrollment in Peppi).
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