The content of the CSEM Integrated Sustainable Management for Business MA /MSc , Diploma, and Certificate modules are as follows:

Core Modules

Business Strategy & Sustainable Development

Shows how sustainability can be applied to the business strategy development process in light of conventional business strategy, sustainability, sustainable development, & a method for planning the process of becoming sustainable.

People Management & Leadership for Sustainable Development

Reviews HRM or People Management in relation to Sustainable Development, and building social sustainability, introduces associated awareness education, change management, culture change, and leadership programmes, and explores change agent skills.

Systems for Sustainable Management

Reviews environmental management systems and other management support systems, ecological & business risks & integrated sustainable management, exposes the inefficiency in separation of management support systems, & examines how to extend processes for ecologically & socially sustainable development.

Operations and Audit for Sustainable Development

Is a hands-on introduction to environmental audit. Includes universal review/audit and aspects evaluation processes to reveal ecological, social and business risks & economically advantageous steps to environmental and social improvement & sustainable business. Our flagship course for some years, run approximately 50 times, participants emerge with new capabilities and confidence.

Waste, Emissions, Land and Sustainable Development

Looks at waste and air/ water emissions, land management and issues arising, provides an approach to assessing these issues, and presents a pathway from environmental management to ecologically and socially sustainable development.

Sustainable Life-Cycle Management

Reviews the life cycle of industrial products including current product & packaging design & development, purchasing, logistics & transport practice, factors that determine it, the environmental & social impacts they cause, & finds sustainable alternatives.

Integration in Sustainable Management

Examines and cost justifies action to embed integration within a business in light of external facets of the business environment, similarities between business functions and current knowledge and research.

Optional Modules

Choice of two of the following:

Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility & SD

Examines planning for sustainability within the normal strategy development process of a buiness in the light of Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility and their relationship with Sustainable Development.

Leadership for Sustainable Business

Provides models of human behaviour and leadership, develops a model of best practice, uses small groups to identify personal strengths and weaknesses, and provides opportunities to practice required skills while developing an action plan to implement on return to work.

The Market and Marketing for Sustainable Development

Reviews and examines Green Consumers, Green penetration, consumer spending, changes to marekt norms, and social, environmental, and ethical responses to Sustainable Development, and considers if there is a basis for a green/ Sustainable Development brief for marketing.

Climate Change, Emissions-Trading & SD

Examines national & international responses to climate change, emissions trading, potential corporate opportunities & costs, & provides a method to integrate this knowledge into corporate management/leadership at every level.

Life-Cycle-Assessment Hands-On

Reviews Life Cycle Assessment, presents a step by step approach consisty with ISO14000 standards, explores how to, and the cost of, extending the methodology for sustainable development and provides practical hands-on experience.

Ecology & Biodiversity

Meets management's need for best current scientific knowledge regarding the 'receiving environment', its vulnerability, and environmental threats from corporate activity, and provides a way through the maze to integrating this knowledge into corporate management/ leadership at every level.

Environmental, Corporate Social Responsibility & SD Regulation

Reviews the creation and development of environmental law and law related to corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, shows how the legal system works, examines environmental regulations, illustrates what to look for on site, and suggests how to deal with disclosure and events with legal implications.

Foundation Modules

Environmental Science Foundation

Provides the foundation knowledge of environmental science required by students undertaking the MA/MSc in Integrated Sustainable Management for Business.

Management Foundation

Provides the foundation knowledge of management required by students undertaking the MA/MSc in Integrated Sustainable Management for Business.

Regulation Foundation

Provides the foundation knowledge of environmental regulation required by students undertaking the MA/MSc in Integrated Sustainable Management for Business.