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In a world where corporate governance scandals have become the everyday, the role of business schools in producing the managers of today - and tomorrow - has come into sharp focus. Today's managers and the MBAs that will follow them are in need of an education that grounds business ethics and the overarching concerns of sustainable development into the curriculum. As some, but by no means all, organisations are coming to realise, bad performance in environmental protection, labour practices and human rights is no longer a `soft' issue but one that can hit the bottom line with a vengeance. So, what is the state of the art in teaching business sustainability worldwide, and what teaching practices and tools are achieving successful results? This book begins to answer these questions and more.
There are many challenges facing educators in the field of sustainability. It is an evolving field still in its infancy as a management discipline; and there is also the need to combat the unstated but often underlying assumption that many environmental and social issues represent non-valued-added effort. Teaching Business Sustainability acknowledges this problem, while helping students explore the various ways in which the theoretical value of business sustainability can result in valuable and value-added practical outcomes.
The 23 contributions to Teaching Business Sustainability have been divided into three thematic groups. In the first section, `Theory, Critique and Ideas', the authors explore and critique some of the overarching ideas and thinking behind the teaching of sustainability. The next section, `Learning from Current Practice', contains the experiences of a number of educators and the successful and leading-edge approaches that they have used. The final section then outlines tools, methods and approaches that can be used to teach business sustainability. This last section also serves as an introduction to a forthcoming second volume which will provide educators of sustainability with a series of case studies, role plays and experiential exercises.
Teaching Business Sustainability will be an invaluable resource both for educators working in a wide range of academic disciplines, looking for inspiration and guidance on how to teach business sustainability, as well as for organisations looking to reinvigorate internal management education programmes to factor in corporate responsibility and sustainability issues.
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Introduction PART 1: THEORY, CRITIQUE AND IDEAS: 1. Mental Models @ Work: Implications for Teaching Sustainability - John Adams; 2. Teaching Sustainability: A Critical Perspective - Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee; 3. Can Publicly Traded Companies Achieve Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Operation? - Tom P. Abeles; 4. The Business of Development: Linking Profits and Principles to Advance Sustainable Human Development - Pepukaye Bardouille; 5. Is The MBA Sustainable? Degrees of Change - Suzanne Benn and David Bubna-Litic 6. Integrating Business and Environmental Education - Steven R. Elliott, O. Homer Erekson, Raymond F. Gorman, H. Gregory Hume, Timothy C. Krehbiel and Orie L. Loucks; 7. Social Sustainability - David K. Foot and Susan Ross; 8. An International Comparison of Environmental Concern Among Business Students - Michael Schaper; PART 2: LEARNING FROM CURRENT PRACTICE: 9. Sustainability Education: The Experience of HRH the Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme - Polly Courtice and Jonathon Porritt; 10. Approaching Sustainability through a Business-Science Synthesis - Steven R. Elliott, O. Homer Erekson, Raymond F. Gorman, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Orie L. Loucks and Allan M. Springer; 11. Environmental Actions, Attitudes and Knowledge: Making a Difference through University Education? The Case of Middlesex University Business School - Diane Holt; 12. Mainstreaming Sustainability Issues in Core Undergraduate Management Education: The Social Context of Business Course at McGill University - Aarup; 13. The Environmental Enterprise Corps: Educating MBA Students about Sustainability - Gillian Rice and Amy Sprague; 14. Partners in Learning: How a Business School and a Company Worked Together to Advance Sustainability - Thomas L. Eggert, Dan Anderson, Ronald Meissen and Verie Sandborg; 15. Matching Form to Content in Educating for Sustainability: The Masters Course in Responsibility and Business Practice - Judi Marshall; PART 3: TOOLS, METHODS AND APPROACHES: 16. Making Sense of Corporate Responsibility Tools - Sasha Courville; 17. Teaching Sustainability: Whole Systems Learning - Molly Brown and Joanna Macy 18. Corporate Education Programmes for Sustainable Business: Communicating Beyond the Green Wall - Trudy Heller; 19. The Neo-Socratic Dialogue: A Method of Teaching the Ethics of Sustainable Development - Beate Littig; 20. Sustainability in a Business Context - Kathleen Wood; 21. Teaching Sustainability in Business Schools: Why, What and How - Bob Willard; 22. Population, Business and Sustainability - David K. Foot; 23. Teaching Sustainability: Challenges, Methods and Tools - Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard
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