Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies and Corporate Governance for Sustainability

Question 1: Change management practices and sustainability strategies

This assessment will cover the learning outcomes 3 and 5.

LO 3:

Critique the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility strategies and change management practices in the management of functions/departments in bringing about sustainability.

LO 5:

Evaluate and critique the effectiveness of corporate governance in achieving sustainability outcomes

You need to use the minimum numbers of quality journals and textbooks as stated above or you will lose marks;

Please provide a brief introduction for questions 1 and 2 but separately, to make it easier for the marker.

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Question 1: Change management practices and sustainability strategies

Aim of this question:

You are required to critique the effectiveness of a corporate social responsibility strategy and change management practices that includes employee organizational behaviours including attitudes to achieve sustainability in your chosen organization.

You need to clearly identify what your chosen organisation’s sustainability strategy is that you want to introduce into the organisation. This could be the result of an issue or opportunity that needs to be addressed.

Your critique needs to answer the following:

i) Provide ONE sustainability strategy. Discuss why it is important to your chosen organisation’s reputation and commitment to sustainability.

ii) Critique the possible impact(s) of your sustainability strategy on five pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental, political/justice, cultural and social).   

iii) Provide and then discuss a well-known change management process that could be used to introduce the sustainability strategy that you have provided in question

iv)  What are the advantages and disadvantages of your chosen change management process?

v)  How will you implement the change management process into your chosen organization?

vi) How will you deal with employees behaviours including negative attitudes of those employees who might resist the introduction of your sustainability strategy? 

Question 2: Corporate governance and sustainability

Aim of this question:

You need to provide an in-depth evaluation and critique of the effectiveness of corporate governance in achieving one sustainability outcome that you have provided in question 1.

i)  Discuss four reasons why the corporate governance of your chosen organization is important to the sustainability strategy that you have provided in question 1 i); (Up to 6 marks for a discussion of each reason for a total of up to 24 marks).

ii)  Discuss how one potential dilemma, for your chosen organisation regarding the implementation of your sustainability strategy, might affect 3 of your chosen organisation’s stakeholders

iii) How might your chosen organization deal with/resolve the sustainability-stakeholder dilemma that you have given in question