Vignette of Practice – Using Real World Audits to Develop Business Management Students’ Sustainability Knowledge Skills and Values

Using real world audits to develop business management students’ sustainability knowledge skills and values  by Dr Kay Emblen-Perry, Senior Lecturer, Worcester Business School In spite of the growth in specialist modules and integration of sustainability content into some modules, Business Management curricula have not adequately prepared students to deal with sustainability issues in the workplace (Waddock, 2007; Govender, 2016). It is now widely accepted that Education for Sustainability (EfS) has fallen behind the internal and external sustainability interests of businesses and change agents (Lonzano et al., 2013; Environmental Audit Committee, 2017); Laurinkari and Tarvainen, 2017). In response, I have designed and implemented an innovative approach to business sustainability learning, teaching and assessment for Business Management Students: Audit-based Learning (ABL).   ABL for EfS is learning… Read moreVignette of Practice – Using Real World Audits to Develop Business Management Students’ Sustainability Knowledge Skills and Values