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Week One

Business Practices and the Biosphere

Describe how business practices may affect the biosphere.

Analyze the affect shareholders’ and stakeholders’ concerns have on business decisions.

Summarize opposing viewpoints on environmental crises.

Course Assignments

1. Readings

Read Ch. 10 (pp. 392–421) of Holistic Management.

Read Ch. 1 of Business, Ethics, and the Environment.


Read Ch. 1 of The Triple Bottom Line.


Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

2. Discussion Questions

WK 1 DQ 1: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ-When considering sustainable business practices, many people first think of energy usage and pollution.

What are other elements of sustainable business practices and products? In what way do these elements affect the overall sustainability of a business? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

WK 1 DQ 2: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ-Scientist disagree about the significance of human activity on global climate change. To what degree do you think human activity affects the environment? What do you think are the best and worst practices in businesses, governments, and homes? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

3. Individual Assignment: Biosphere Worksheet

Resources: Biosphere Worksheet found on your student Web site.

Complete the Biosphere Worksheet.

Weekly Reminders

Discussion Questions

Discussion question responses will count towards the class participation requirement.

Only posts in the Main classroom forum will count towards your class participation score.

Participation

All Week: Remember to participate in the class discussions 4 out of 7 days during the week.

Summary of Week 1 Deliverables

Assignment Individual or Learning Team Due

Week 1 DQ 1 Individual/ Location: Main Forum Day 3-Thursday

Week 1 DQ 2 Individual/ Location: Main Forum Day 5-Saturday

Biosphere Worksheet Individual/ Assignment Section Day 7-Monday

Week Two

Regulation and Voluntary Sustainable Practices

Compare mandatory and voluntary business practices.

Explain major elements of environmental management systems.

Assess the sustainability of a business’s current practices.

Course Assignments

1. Readings

Read Ch. 4 of Holistic Management.








WK 2 DQ 1: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- Many businesses must

comply with government regulations related to pollution and energy usage. Businesses may also voluntarily engage in other sustainable business practices. What is a business leader’s motivation to engage in sustainable business practices? Why might a business leader resist implementing voluntary business practices? What are other ways besides regulations that the government or local community encourages businesses to become more sustainable?

WK 2 DQ 2: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ-Select three of the following Web sites:

o US Green Building Council: www.usgbc.org

o Global Reporting Initiative: www.globalreporting.org

o Purdue University Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute: www.ecn.purdue.edu/CMTI

o US EPA: http://www.epa.gov/

o Indiana Department of Environmental Management: http://www.in.gov/idem/

Review the major differences and similarities among these organizations and answer

the following questions:

Are these practices widely applicable or better suited to a specific industry? Do they contain mandatory or voluntary targets? How are they used? What additional resources do they offer? What benefits would a business gain from using one?

3. Individual Assignment: Shareholders and Stakeholders Presentation

http://www.in.gov/idem/

http://www.epa.gov/

http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/CMTI

http://www.globalreporting.org/

http://www.usgbc.org/

Create a Powerpoint presentation in which you demonstrate how different stakeholders are affected by business decisions and practices.

Select one of the following types of industries: a pharmaceutical manufacturer, an organic yogurt producer, a carpet cleaning company, or a city aquarium. Identify a representative example of a real business among one of these industries and provide a brief summary of this business’s products, services, and practices.

Identify four types of stakeholders for your chosen business. Describe how each stakeholder is involved in or affected by the business and specify their concerns with the business’s standard practices.

Explain how stakeholders’ preferences may conflict with shareholders’ financial concerns.

Explain, in the conclusion, how decisions that benefit one group may have a negative effect on the other and describe the role of a business leader in trying to balance the shareholders’ and stakeholders’ concerns.

Choose the format of your presentation. You could, for example, make a 5- to 10-minute oral presentation, accompanied by a PowerPoint® presentation. You could also record your presentation as a video clip or another form of media. You must obtain faculty approval of your presentation format.

Provide at least one APA-formatted source.

Submit a 10 to 12 slide Microsoft Power Point presentation

4. Learning Team Instructions: Current Business Practices Audit

Resources: Business Sustainability Assessment Worksheets, Riordan Manufacturing

Virtual Organization.

Create a learning team charter.

Begin collaboration on your Current Business Practices Audit.

Weekly Reminders




Participation




Week 2 DQ 1 Individual/ Location: Main ForumDay 3-Thursday


Shareholders and Stakeholders Presentation

Individual/ Assignment Section Day 7-Monday

Week Three

Planning Sustainable Business Practices

Summarize strategies and practices businesses use to improve sustainability.

Compare costs and benefits for relevant sustainable business practices.

Develop a plan to improve sustainable business practices.

Course Assignments

5. Readings



Read Ch. 5 of Sustaining Environmental Management Success.



WK 3 DQ 1: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- What is e-waste, and how do electronics companies in different countries manage it? What is the cradle-to-cradle philosophy, and how may it be applied to e-waste? How does cradle-to-cradle benefit a business and the local community? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

WK 3 DQ 2: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- A local company produces and sells chainsaws that come with a 2-year warranty. There are metal parts on the production line that must be painted before the chainsaws are assembled. The currently used paint gun transfers only 75% of the paint to the product, with the remaining 25% lost as air emissions. This exceeds the level of air emissions allowed under government regulations. The plant has the option of

o purchasing a new paint gun that costs five times more than the existing paint gun but has a paint transfer efficiency rate of up to 95%.

o using a different type of paint that produces negligible amounts of air emissions but is known to chip and flake after two or three years.

o making no changes to production but paying monthly fines related to the amount of air emissions.

What are the costs and benefits of each option? Consider financial, ethical, practical, and legal perspectives. What if the product were a car rather than a chainsaw?

7. Learning Team Instructions: EMS Recommendations

Resources: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization

Begin collaboration on your EMS Recommendations.

8. Learning Team Assignment: Current Business Practices Audit

Resources: Business Sustainability Assessment Worksheets, Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization.

Use the Business Sustainability Assessment Worksheets provided on the course page of the University of Phoenix Student Web site.

Conduct a sustainability audit and write a report of no more than 1,050 words in

which you analyze a virtual manufacturing firm’s current business practices and identify aspects of the business that would benefit from the implementation of a sustainability plan.

Submit the Business Sustainability worksheets in addition to the report.

The following scenario is representative of how a business voluntarily develops and implements a sustainability plan: Riordan Manufacturing is a plastic injection molding company with locations in California, Georgia, Michigan, and China. Mark Neitzel, vice president of operations, has decided to assess the company’s current business practices and, where possible, move to more sustainable practices.

Locate the link to the University of Phoenix Virtual Organizations Web site on the course page of the University of Phoenix student Web site. Navigate to the Operations section on the Riordan Manufacturing Intranet Web site and read through the Sustainability Study and Communications pages.

Fill in the charts in the Business Sustainability worksheets to conduct an audit of Riordan Manufacturing’s current business practices at the plants inCalifornia, Georgia, Michigan, and China. Each Learning Team member must address one to three major production stages in Section 2 of each worksheet.

Select three non-sustainable practices as the focus of the sustainability plan, once all four plant locations have been audited.

Write a report describing the three practices your team selected.

Discuss why these practices are not sustainable and explain the negative effects they have on the environment.

Conclude the report with an examination of mandatory and voluntary actions Riordan may take to improve its sustainability.

Identify any state or federal regulations to which Riordan must adhere. What actions must Riordan take to be compliant? Besides these mandatory actions, what further actions may Riordan take to improve its sustainability related to, for example, break room and custodial services, office supplies, and employee issues? What are the differences between these voluntary actions and other mandatory actions? Consider motivations, consequences, and effects on the business and the environment.

Submit Current Business Practices Audit

Weekly Reminders




Participation






Current Business Practices Audit

Learning Team/ Assignment Section Day 7-Monday

Week Four

Implementing and Monitoring Sustainable Business Practices

Identify barriers to implementing and maintaining a sustainable business plan.

Develop strategies that may overcome implementation barriers.

Describe methods to systematically measure and monitor sustainable business plans.

Course Assignments

9. Readings








WK 4 DQ 1: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- When business leaders implement a sustainability plan, how do they inform their employees and the public they have launched a Go Green campaign? What details of the plan must they release or

keep private? How might the plan affect the business’s relationship with its employees, customers, and vendors?

WK 4 DQ 2: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- Business leaders address barriers from different people when implementing a sustainable business plan. What kind of barriers would business leaders face from midlevel managers, employees, customers, vendors, or outside groups, such as Greenpeace? How would business leaders overcome these barriers?

11. Learning Team Instructions: Implementing EMS Recommendations

Begin collaboration on your Implementing EMS Recommendations.

12. Learning Team Assignment: EMS Recommendations

Resources: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization

Write a report of no more than 1,050 words in which you make specific recommendations for Riordan Manufacturing to improve its sustainability practices.

Summarize the objectives, targets, and programs you identified as the most important areas requiring improvement in sustainability, using the assessment produced in Week Three.

Identify and summarize relevant technologies, strategies, products, or practices Riordan Manufacturing may use to increase sustainability. Each Learning Team member compares costs and benefits of implementing one to three possible solutions.

Identify the three best practices Riordan Manufacturing should implement. Describe

which new items or practices must be implemented, a summary of costs and benefits, a justification of why the benefits outweigh the costs, and describe the steps the business must take to implement new items. Although you should not base your recommendations on meeting any state or federal regulations, do your recommendations eliminate the need to comply with state or federal regulations?

Cite assigned readings and at least three additional peer-reviewed sources to support your points in APA format.

Submit the EMS Recommendations.

Weekly Reminders




Participation






EMS Recommendations

Learning Team/ Assignment Section Day 7-Monday

Week Five

Maintaining a Business Culture of Sustainability

Identify qualities of effective leadership in creating a culture of sustainability.

Outline management strategies to develop a business culture of sustainability.

Course Assignments

13. Readings




Read the Epilogue of The Triple Bottom Line.




WK 5 DQ 1: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- Creation and implementation of a business-wide sustainability plan is usually a top-down approach led by upper management. Lower level employees, however, may have a more practical view of day-to-day procedures. Should business leaders include all levels of employees in creating a sustainability plan, and if so, how? What are some advantages and disadvantages to including employees in bottom-up business planning? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

WK 5 DQ 2: Post a 150 to 200 word response to this DQ- Two vice presidents of a large commercial dairy farm have each developed a sustainability plan. The overview of the first plan is written in a neutral tone and contains many facts and figures related to nutrition, finances, and energy efficiency. The overview of the second plan uses more emotional language and contains alarming facts related to children’s health, animal welfare, and the farm’s future. What does each vice president hope to achieve by using neutral versus emotional facts? How effective is each style at encouraging the president to implement a sustainability plan? Which style would you use to propose a sustainability plan to your company?

15. Individual Assignment: Personality Profile

Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words in which you describe the characteristics of effective sustainable business leadership.

Select a prominent business leader who has increased his or her company’s sustainable business practices. Briefly describe the steps this leader took to improve the company’s sustainability. Among the possible leaders are Nicole Basset of Patagonia, Lorraine Bolsinger of GE, Richard Branson of Virgin Group, Linda J. Fisher of DuPont, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Yogurt, Hannah Jones of Nike, Richard MacLean of Competitive Environment, Anita Roper of Alcoa, and Marie Ziegler of John Deere.

Describe the personality traits, management style, and leadership qualities that helped him or her lead the company to a successful implementation of new practices.

Describe how this leader instilled a culture of sustainability at his or her company.

Describe general management strategies you use as a business leader to increase sustainability in your field.

Cite assigned readings and at least two additional peer-reviewed sources to support your points in APA format.

16. Individual Assignment: Final Examination

Prepare for your final examination.

17. Learning Team Assignment: Implementing EMS Recommendations

Resources: Week Four Learning Team Instructions.

Write a report of no more than 1,050 words in which you anticipate barriers to implementing your sustainability recommendations, plan how to overcome these barriers, and describe methods to systematically monitor the plan.

Identify barriers to implementing your sustainability plan using recommendations produced in Week Four. Describe what those barriers are and how or why they might occur. Consider financial, social, ethical, technical, and practical aspects of business.

Develop strategies to avoid or overcome these barriers. Explain necessary steps for doing so.

Describe methods currently in place or necessary to ensure systematic monitoring of new sustainable practices. How are they measured or monitored? What happens if a recommended practice is not working as it was intended?

Integrate the three parts of the sustainability plan into one cohesive paper. Add a one-page executive summary, an introduction, a conclusion, and any necessary transitions.

Cite assigned readings and at least three additional peer-reviewed sources to support your points in APA format.

Submit Implementing EMS Recommendations.

Weekly Reminders

Final Week Requirements

Discussion question responses will be required during the final week of the course.


Participation






Personality Profile

Individual/ Assignment Section Day 7- Monday

Implementing EMSRecommendations

Learning Team/ Assignment Section Day 7- Monday

Final Examination

Individual/Assignment Section Day 7- Monday

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