It is no longer acceptable for organisations to focus entirely on financial success if they are to be competitive on the global stage. As corporate scandals continue to make headlines, you will expand your strategic thinking beyond your organisation’s competitive financial environment to consider its broader impact on society. You will grapple with the conflicting outcomes of maximising financial return and societal impact as you develop the skills to create a balance that is sustainable. Through structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) you will gain an appreciation of how important sustainability will be for every organisation in the future – and how to achieve it.
Overall it was good experience and went the session through our from this session I learnerd very new things hope I will use this knowledge in future
Indeed this course was a great eye opener for me, I shall strive to be follow these principles in my work and be sustainable in all fronts in work. Thank you
Really loved the course. The course is well structured and gives a good insight into a wide range of topics. Hoping to carry forward the learning and apply it in upcoming corporate jobs :)
This gives details in brief in simple way and easy to understand. More valuable than I thought in the beginning. Thank you Professor....
Some typos in the quizzes/assessments. Great foundation for those looking to do more good through what they're doing now.
A really good introduction to sustainability in a corporate environment. This course really helped me get up to speed in an area that I am now directly involved in at my organisation.
Course has really helped me in developing conceptual understanding. Content is updated and to the point
Professors explained the course beautifully. Definitely I would recommend the course to my batch mates. :)
Enjoyed learning this course which gives a very practical understanding of Sustainability and CSR, very structured and interesting!
This course was really informative and insightful about various concepts about organisations and their functions.
Very clear and documented ! I missed some study cases but the overall training was well-made and worthy
well structured and the course materials are very useful. Only one suggestion. It will be a lot better if the course readings can be updated.
Showing: 20 of 111
This is the most interesting course I have ever taken on Coursera! The videos and the information provided were super informative and addressed the issue of sustainability from different angles. I simply love it! I'm very greatful for your work and I'm happy to take the course!
The course is really useful for whoever wanted to learn about sustainability, CSR and ethics. The related videos, articles, and guidelines have a powerful insight. One can utilize these materials for learning and implementation purpose. Got a valuable knowledge about what is exactly sustainability is, how it's circulating in the business and how to implement it. Such a great course I must say.
This was my first course on Sustainability after reading the UN principles. This training is really well made, it covers many subjects and gives lots of links on readings and videos.
Thanks to this course I am now aware of so much more and will be able to improve our CR strategy within our company.
Indeed this course was a great eye opener for me, I shall strive to be follow these principles in my work and be sustainable in all fronts in work. Thank you
Interesting and really helpful scenario of environmental and social concerns and how to address these issues in both organization and individual levels.
Overall it was good experience and went the session through our from this session I learnerd very new things hope I will use this knowledge in future
This course provided some excellent frameworks and principles which can be incorporated into all sorts of business models. Very valuable indeed.
This is a great fundamental course in sustainability and CSR. It's enjoyable as well as educational, and the topics are very relevant today. But there are flaws with the course:
- Material is from 2018 and needs updating given how many scandals have happened since then (Rio Tinto Juukan gorge, financial services royal commission) and how much more urgent our climate crisis has become.
- No one answers questions or problems (glitches) posed in the discussion forum or comments.
- One or two key documents are hidden behind Macquarie Uni firewalls, and if you aren't a student of Macquarie, you can't access them.
1. Some interesting concepts on Sustainability and business actions
2. Focus on why CSR is not enough, Focus on partnerships among business, NGOs and Govt
3. Emerging strategies in sustainability such as Social responsible Investing, Social entrepreneurship and Cross sector partnership.
Very dry presentations, didn't hold my attention at all.
there is no course material. it is sometime difficult to understand the teacher. contents seems very political
Highly recommend this course!! This course is certainly a very interesting course! It all started with me trying to better understand Corporate social responsibility... then I ended up taking this course that enlightened me to whole new perspective of sustainability and corporate sustainability. After completing this course I am positive that I will follow these steps into a better and more sustainable world. on another notice the videos are well put and very clear. The instructor has clear and understandable English with an extraordinary way of presenting information. This course has successfully created a way into attracting the learner and be in love with this course.
It is a really very well-prepared and useful course to understand the importance of sustainability and ethics in organizational structures as well as in real life. The instructor gives an explanation of each and every topic covered in the course very effectively with good examples. The topics are also very well-chosen for the course. It gives an understanding that being good and ethical is also very much essential in this world of intense competition. I particularly liked the course because I also believe to live ethically and as a business student, operate organizational functions ethically.
I have learnt some interactive knowledge sharing insights on GS and CSR and in addition, learnt two interesting schools of thought about Whistleblowing and Psychopathy. Whistleblowing may be quite popular in the developed world, but, not in the developing and the LDC countries. Corporate Psychopath is quite common everywhere, "I AM THIS, I AM THAT... Bla bla bla...." . The strategies mentioned on how to tackle Organizational Psychopath Leaders are still in the infancy stage and need to be more in-depth research to tackle it with efficacy.
Before completing this course, I thought of sustainability only as it relates to packaging... relying less on plastic, ensuring paper is coming from certified sources, choosing materials that are recyclable, etc. It's so much more complex than that. From this course, I've expanded my knowledge to understand that sustainability connects 4 key themes: Peace, Freedom, Development, and the Environment, and these themes are reinforced by the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) that were crafted at the United Nations in 2016.
The course is will-organized and is pretty useful for beginners who want to learn about CSR. The lecture is easy to understand, but you can always explore more by reading extra articles and documents that are linked to the courses. Moreover, the professor gave suggestions and opinions from different positions to address the issue of sustainability. Really awesome and I enjoyed my time in this course.
Thank you professor Edward for your time, lectures, and those insightful additional resources on every topic. Learning this through Coursera with such a deep explanation means a lot to me personally. This course brings me to a new horizon of sustainability: how to act ethically in organizations, strategies to be sustainable, and good practices of sustainability that have been implemented.
This course opens your mind about what troubles come to the environment and soceity at large as a result of unsustainable behaviour of corporations and progresses to give a framework that can assist any manager to direct their organisation from such behaviour. The difference in contributing to this ethical practice for the individual and corporations as a whole is what stood-out for me.
It was an amazing course where I learn a lot about corporate social responsibility. The most significant for me was the corporate strategies of defensive and offensive CSR, which allow me to understand why some corporations invest millions in lobbying in EE.UU to maintain the status quo on legislation and pollute and contaminate the ecosystems and human body with noxious chemicals.
Very well structured. This course guides you from understanding the basics, realising and acknowledging the world, and then proceed to give strategies and action plans that can be followed that are applicable to individuals at different levels of influence in businesses.