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BMGT45750

Academic Year 2024/2025

Sustainable Production&Consump (BMGT45750)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Professor Mark Pagell
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Organisations deliver value to customers via their global supply chains. They also, typically, create significant harm to socio-environmental systems while doing so. In other words, current systems of production and consumption are not sustainable.

While we have long recognised that these systems need to change to avoid climate disaster and societal breakdown, recent events make it clear that most organisations and their managers have neither the will nor the skill to manage their supply chains in a sustainable fashion.

In this class you will develop a holistic understanding of sustainable production and consumption. Core topics include models and strategies of what sustainability is (and is not), an understanding of core supply chain management processes such as operations, sourcing and logistics, and most importantly how these supply chain processes can be done in a manner that delivers on the UN’s sustainable development goals; especially goal 8 (decent work and economic growth) and goal 12 (responsible consumption and production).

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and be able to apply various models of sustainability and sustainable production and consumption.

2. Develop an understaffing of how an organisation's pursuit of profit can positively or negatively impact the communities and environment in which it operates.

3. Develop an understating of how multiple supply chain stakeholders, such as regulators, NGOs, members of the local community, and industry associations can enable or inhibit an organisation’s ability to operate.

4. Have a basic understanding of the core supply chain functions of operations, sourcing, and logistics.

5. Have a holistic understating of how decisions in the core functions of operations, sourcing, and logistics make a supply chain more or less sustainable.

Indicative Module Content:

Because of the fast changing / ever evolving nature of knowledge in this area - specific topics for the semester will be discussed in class during week 1.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

0
Total

0

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The key teaching and learning approaches used in the module will vary based on the class composition and size.

They will include a mix of individual and group work.

Specific tasks could include: active/task-based learning; lectures; critical writing; debates; case-based learning; student presentations as either individuals or groups, and so on.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Practical Skills Assessment: Open book in class case that captures the material from the first half of the module Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8 Graded No
30
 No
Practical Skills Assessment: Open book in class case that captures the material from the entire module Week 11, Week 12 Graded No
35
 No
Participation in Learning Activities: Students are expected to come to class prepared to work individually and in groups to apply the prepared material and share their answers with the class, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Graded No
35
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 14:00 - 16:50
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