MNG 360 - Service Learning Management for Sustainable Development

This service-learning course will address the topic of management, but relative to “sustainable development.” The need for business managers to manage the sustainable development process is the driving force behind this challenge. A “four-legged stool” of the management process is offered, as follows: 1) managing the needs of people, 2) managing optimal resource allocation, 3) managing the economic perspective, and 4) managing the environment. Management – planning, organizing, leading, controlling – and all its elements are essential to further this vital global topic in today’s world. Strategic management is needed too – long-term and short-term, internal and external environments, corporate-business-functional strategies, cooperation (versus competitiveness), and strategic alliances – and are all-important. The role of government is highlighted – “Governments must realize that they can either pay now (i.e., with tax benefits to companies, and therefore lost or decreased current tax revenues) or pay later, in the form of cleanups. Why not pay now?”
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: BUS 220
Offered in the Fall Semester