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Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

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Business Futures: Sustainable Business Through Green HR
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Highlights

  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 2 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Business Futures: Sustainable Business Through Green HR
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  • Sustainability is an embedded practice in many businesses. It recognises the long term benefits of acknowledging the social and environmental impacts of production and consumption. While governments encourage responsible social and environmental action, implementation is often left to individual organisations and many of these are under pressure from shareholders driven by a profit-centred return on investment (ROI) model. And so, environmental and sustainable practices often become a HR matter - it's people that must make the difference.
  • This course will explore what constitutes sustainability from both ecological and business perspectives. We will investigate the emergence of sustainable approaches to human resources, known as 'Green HR', and identify various types of sustainability models.
  • We will take you on a journey through the fashion industry where we'll explore the essential features of Green HR, including the value placed on human capital and the necessary balancing of sustainable values and business viability.
  • Operating a sustainable business is a balancing act. We will examine how sustainability and Green HR can work in practice by examining:
  • Throughout the course we identify the internal and external drivers of sustainable practice and cultural change, and explore several critical issues, such as transparency and authenticity.
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Business Futures: Sustainable Business Through Green HR
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Curriculum

Welcome

Welcome

The will to be sustainable: beyond compliance

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Human Sustainability

Human sustainability

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Ecological Sustainability

Ecological Sustainability

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