From an organisational perspective, formulate a 5-year sustainable development plan for an organisation of your choice, focusing
Question:
From an organisational perspective, formulate a 5-year sustainable development plan for an organisation of your choice, focusing on corporate social responsibility and business ethics (e.g., workers’ rights, employee relations, child labour, diversity/cross-cultural management, environmental responsibility).
You should:
• critically analyse the key challenges the organisation faces
• suggest a plan on how to address the key issues and improve the situation with a 5-year sustainable development plan Use CSR related theories/models (e.g., Carroll’s Pyramid, Triple Bottom Line, Stakeholder Theory) to analyse the relevant issues and to support the sustainable plan discussions. The 5-year sustainable development plan can be discussed utilising the timeline: Consider how you would manage strategic organisational change in the implementation of this plan.
General Guidance
• Submission deadline: 12:00 noon Wednesday 15 December
• The word limit is 4,000 words including tables and reference list but excluding appendices (+10% leeway)
• Your submission needs to be critically developed, rather than descriptive
• Use academic references to support your points and discussions.
• You must use BU Harvard Referencing
Indicative Assignment Structure
• Introduction • Main issues (key challenges faced) – critical discussions of the challenges (using relevant theories/models to analyse the situation, where appropriate)
• 5-year sustainability development plan – critical discussions of the plan (using relevant theories/models where appropriate)
• Conclusion • Reference list (listing all (but only) the references used in the text.
Assessment criteria and weightings (indicative)
Discussions of the relevant issues 20%
5-year sustainable development plan 30%
Application of relevant theories/models 20%
Analytical/critical elements 20%
Academic style/professional presentations 10%
Advice: before writing
• Read the brief carefully (what you have been asked to do)
• Select an appropriate organisation (which has direct relevance to the issues/challenges in the global business environment).
• Consider which theories/models you might apply – make sure you understand these clearly
. • Useful to produce an outline or working plan.
• Think your ideas through before you start writing.
Advice: when writing
Make sure that your discussions are:
• deep
• critical (not descriptive)
• with logical development through to the conclusion
• with application of theories/models
• with clear presentation and communication (e.g., use of headings, page numbering, etc.)
• supported by academic references
Referencing needs to follow BU Harvard Referencing style consistently (check BU online if not sure)