GRA 8285 Creating and Leading Green Organizations
GRA 8285 Creating and Leading Green Organizations
In this course, we focus on how you can lead and manage the change process involved in executing green strategies for the transformation of a company to a successful sustainability business. We will look at what kind of organizations and competences that will be needed to take advantage of the next big wave of the green shift opportunities. This includes state-of-the-art approaches for change management and resource mobilization, such as cultivating positive relationships, generative resistance, meaning making, giving behavior, facilitating agency as well as using the progress principle. As a part of these process of resource mobilization, you will work with developing a green business plan for your own company.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Analyze methods for integrating sustainability opportunities into corporate strategies
- Evaluate the impact of sustainable practices on talent attraction and retention
- Differentiate between purpose, green ethics, corporate ethics, and personal ethics
- Explain the key public policies in the EU and Nordics designed to enable the transition to a sustainable economy
- Analyze strategies for building engagement and mobilizing human resources effectively in change efforts, leveraging individual strengths and contributions
- Evaluate principles from the Nordic model when designing organizations that foster self-determination, initiative, and creativity
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Develop green business plans for own companies/projects at strategic levels
- Formulate strategies to transform sustainability accounting and ESG reporting from compliance into a competitive advantage
- Evaluate sustainability frameworks for goals and designing reporting relevant to the organisational context
- Implement and execute sustainable growth projects
- Facilitate meaning-making and unleash desires to contribute to a greener world
- Transform resistance into a resource and cultivate high-quality connections during organizational change efforts
- Design interventions to cultivate pro-social behavior and foster agency within organizations
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate personal leadership styles in relation to the attributes of high-performing green executives
- Propose innovative strategies to address and overcome cultural and organizational inertia in sustainability transitions
- What is the high-performing green executive
- Purpose and sustainability-ethics at corporate and personal levels
- How to make and execute a game-changing sustainability strategy?
- How to deal with resistance to sustainability initiatives or green strategies?
- Tackling cultural and organisational inertia
- Making and calculating the financial case for sustainability investments
- Public policies for enabling the transition: overcoming the obstacles (procurement, perverse subsidies, taxes etc)
The course is conducted through a total of 32 hours of lectures and other classroom activities. We expect active class participation and supportive behavior for fellow students. Each participant is held co-responsible for a learning environment that is open, challenging and respectful.
Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of written assignments)
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
The course is a part of a full EMBA programme and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain the EMBA certificate.
In all BI Executive courses and programmes, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
Granted admission to the EMBA programme. Please consult our student regulations.
Disclaimer
Changes in exam type can be made until the course starts. In addition, unforeseen events or external conditions may call for deviations in teaching and exams.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Weight: 40 Grouping: Group (2 - 6) Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Written assignment in groups, counts 40% of the final grade. Exam code: GRA 82851 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Weight: 60 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Individual written assignment, counts 60% of the total grade. This examination is based on the students' experience from the modules, with describing these including personal reflections and links to theories from curriculum. Exam code: GRA 82852 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 32 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 25 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 63 Hour(s) | Self study, feedback activities/counselling and exam. |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.
