Developing Sustainable Strategies for Business Resilience

Sustainable Strategies for Business Resilience

Building on your report from assessment 1, use the case study provided to write a formal academic report to Green Business Network members to help them increase the resilience of their business by developing sustainable strategies or recommendations for the business. You should imagine you are hired by the company to mitigate the sustainable challenges faced by the company. Develop 3 sustainable strategies or recommendations for the company and justify your strategy
1. Environmental sustainability
2. Social sustainability
3. Economic sustainability
Make sure you provide appropriate strategies/recommendations to the company based on the challenges identified in Assessment 1. Use the learnings and theories covered in the class to find better alternatives for the case company. Make sure your recommendations are based on theories like Cradle-to-cradle, circular economy, cap and trade system, ecological modernization, sustainable development goals, Caroll’s CSR pyramid, social values, social enterprises etc. Address both the present, and potential future, risks and opportunities for businesses. Use examples to support your answer and highlight the key skills discussed in the unit that may help them. Use good sources of information and correctly reference your ideas. You will need to apply global ideas to consider impacts at a regional level so you will need to carry out research on how climate change is likely to affect the local area.
Note: You must ‘build on’ not repeat work from your first assessment. Although the case study company is the same, your purpose here
is to demonstrate continued and deeper research and understanding. Resubmitted work will not be marked.
What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
Submit your work through BREO by the deadline
Produce a report evidencing individual research using academic journals listed in the UIF and research about the company given in the assignment task
Demonstrate your application of knowledge about how sustainability poses at least two areas of threats and opportunities to the case study business
Report on at least four practical issues and solutions for the business case provided
Evidence critical reasoning using Harvard style of referencing

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
We will be filling this section in together in class on week 1: make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.
How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
Class sessions will help you understand the practice and theory behind the concept of sustainable business management. We will cover all areas of the assessment and consider how ideas are relate to business and the regional level. We will also look at the skills needed to deliver a sustainable business and think about how this applies to the needs of the case study. You will know about how sustainability issues present both opportunities and threats to business management and the need for business to think sustainably.