Overview

What you will study

As business organisations around the world face sustainability-related challenges, many are struggling to balance short and long-term objectives to overcome these obstacles. This Foundations of Sustainable Business course offered by University of Melbourne is ideal for professionals seeking an understanding of how to develop sustainable stakeholder-oriented business strategies in organisations.

Learning outcome

By the end of this micro-credential, you will be able to:

Explain why the business is moving towards a stakeholder value corporate purpose
Develop a stakeholder-oriented, sustainable business strategy in your organisation

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

Analyse the shareholder and stakeholder debate

Explore traditional and contemporary attitudes toward corporate purpose. Consider why many organisations now favour stakeholder capitalism as their preferred business model and examine why the stakeholder view now dominates business discourse and drives more sustainable business strategies.

Evaluate real-world stakeholder management practices

Apply learned insights and frameworks to evaluate organisations in crisis vs organisations that have a clear purpose and incorporate inclusive stakeholder management practices.

Develop a stakeholder-oriented, sustainable business strategy

Assess the ethical and strategic risks and opportunities ingrained in the stakeholder approach. Compare this business model to the sustainability pyramid, and discover how the latter gives organisations a blueprint to develop shared values across all business operations.

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 1 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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More details

Upcoming dates for this course are yet to be announced.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines

Business Administration Sustainable Development View 7 other Short Courses in Sustainable Development in Australia

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

CRICOS: 00116K

There are no eligibility requirements.
The course is also suited more broadly to anyone wanting to develop their critical thinking about societal and ethical issues in organised settings.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

1350 AUD / full

≈ 1350 AUD / full
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Citizens or residents

1350 AUD / full

≈ 1350 AUD / full

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