Reflective Logs of Sustainability for Business Activity

Brief description 

You are required to provide an understanding on the global challenges that world is facing and also highlight the issues associated with the contemporary business practices. You will be involved in the debate whose concern will be the relationship between business and issues like the climate change, environment, humankind’s relationship to nature, inequality, social problems and also the obstacles of sustainability in capitalist form of economy whose priority is economic growth.

The objective of this module is to highlight the attributes below-

• You are required to understand and manage the complexity, diversity and change
• Provide the critical thinking on ability to express an idea in writing and in oral form
• Preparation for the citizenship in context to local, national and global context.

Learning outcomes -

• You are required to produce the challenging view of the present ideas and practices and also recommend the ways
• Showcase the goals that are under the agreement of the globe as a whole for the future global society to 2030
• what is the link between environmental, social and economic injustices and business practice
• Provide an example of the good and best practice in context to sustainable business leadership and management
• Provide judgements on the sustainability concepts

Electronic and web-based resources

Three web sources are recommended for background work:

1. International Institute for Sustainable Development, including documents such as: Sustainable Consumption and Production Indicators for the Future SDGs

2. United Nations, especially https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300but there is a wealth of information on many of the UN group sites.

3. Guardian Sustainable Business web pages: http://www.theguardian.com/us/sustainable-business

Other resources:

• Business Source Complete, Newsbank and Mintel (accessible through the library)

Assessment - 1

You are asked to produce a report to CEO of SME about the steps that can be taken for enhancing operations sustainability. Consider any business of your choice. You are further required to make use of the real business experience. The answers report will take into consideration-

• Energy use
• Water use
• Transport
• Waste
• CSR

You are further required to take into consideration the concept of sustainability in the workplace and in the supply chain management. Highlight the most significant issue.

The subtitle of the report that is recommended is “Problems, perspectives, regulation and the way forward”

You are asked to figure out the pressures on the business to become more sustainable and what strong steps will be taken for the business to become more sustainable

Follow the structure mentioned below-

5. Introduction
6. Provide the background to sustainable operations of business
7. The approaches to business leadership and perspectives
8. Any area of concern
9. Provide critical evaluation of the alternative business practices
10. Conclusion

Assessment-2 Provide reflection

Provide a detail with respect to reason of the setting of this assignment and the learnings that you experience and its impact on your personality. In order to provide the reflection, you are to map out whole learning journey and the issues associated.