Environmental Management

Class

Phares Parayno

Enrollment for this class is currently closed.

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Managers have to confront various demands from the government, the industry, and public to improve their environmental performance. Addressing these demands could lead to actions by managers that can conflict with the traditional imperative of value creation for shareholders of a company. The most important question, then, for a manager is how to balance social and political demands to protect the environment and the pressure to deliver excellent returns to shareholders. This course examines varying management responses to demands for environmental improvement ranging from regulatory compliance to environmental management strategies beyond compliance. These are investigated from the vantage points of the firm, the industry, and the society.

This course is designed for students with limited knowledge of management concepts and principles. It focuses on the challenges faced by companies in changing their practices and strategies for competition as they respond to the pressures placed on them by environmental issues. After taking the course, students will have the tools and skills to be able to promote a favorable policy environment that will encourage participation of companies in improving environmental performance. To accomplish this, the course is organized into five parts: (1) introduction; (2) drivers of corporate environmental management; (3) integrating environment and business; (4) strategic environmental management; and (5) future of environmental management.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Analyse the issues and recommend appropriate solutions to address these issues presented on the company cases;
2. Formulate an environment management action plan to reduce wastes of an organization;
3. Assist small and medium enterprises formulate environmental management system relevant to their operations;
4. Conduct a strategic environmental management analysis of addressing wastes of a company; and
5. Formulate an environment strategy appropriate to the nature of an organization.

Week	Learning Outcome	Topic	Methodology	Student Output/Outcome	Evaluation of Learning/ Evaluation Tool
Week 1, 29 Nov	· Explain the various drivers of adopting environmental management in business. · Discuss arguments for integrating environment in business strategy.	Course Overview, Business Challenge of Going Green	Students participate in class discussion. Lecture discussion on the scope of the course.	Student participation in class discussion
Week 2, 6 Dec	· Analyze the influence of regulation and other institutions on environmental management in businesses.	Environmental regulation, institutional demand and market response.	Lecture discussion on the interaction between government regulation and environmental management.	Student participation in class discussion.	Rubric for class participation
Week 3, 13 Dec	· Analyze the effects of international environment directive on environmental management	International environment agreement and environment management	Assign selected environmental directive from EU to students. Students explain the main points of the directive and explain how these directives affect environmental management in other countries, such as the Philippines.	Students report analysis of the effect of these international regulation and agreement on environmental management in the Philippines.
Week 4 20 Dec	· Explain the principles of incorporating sustainability in designing new products	Product Design, design for environment, integrating life-cycle environmental concerns into product design	Video presentation of a. William McDonough “Cradle to Cradle b. Janine Benyus “Biomimicry” Exercises on identifying various products that incorporate sustainability in their design.	Students formulate questions and articulate insights from viewing a video.
Week 5 10 Jan	· Analyze the issues affecting the introduction of a product designed to reduce waste.	Design for Sustainability	Students read the case “Deja Shoe” a week ahead. Analyze the issues in the case with respect to design for the environment.	Students analyze a relevant operations problem as described in a case.	Rubric for case analysis
Week 6 17 Jan	· Identify materials that contribute to the sustainability of the manufacturing of goods and products. · Distinguish materials and inputs that minimize impacts on the environment and society.	Inputs and Procurement	Case discussion of different companies’ practice of green purchasing. Students report on each of these companies.	Students report their research on green purchasing practices of companies.	Rubric for oral reporting
Week 7 24 Jan	· Analyze green marketing strategies of companies	Green marketing and managerial strategies	Students read the case Coocafe a week ahead. Students analyze the major problem of the case and the decision-making that needs to be done to address the problem in the case.	Students analyze green marketing strategies of Coocafe. Students participate in case discussion.	Rubric for case discussion
Week 8 31 Jan	· Design a program on waste reduction in an organization	Lean and Green Manufacturing and Sustainable Manufacturing	Lecture discussion on sustainable manufacturing	Students participate in class discussion.	Rubric for class participation.
Week 9 7 Feb	· Determine various waste minimization and pollution prevention programs appropriate to the different businesses.	Lean and Green Manufacturing	Read the case DOW Chemical Company, the WRAP Program a week ahead. Students discuss among themselves the issues in the case, facilitated by the teacher.	Students analyze relevant operations problems as described in a case. Students decide on the appropriate solution to the problems presented in the case.	Rubric for case analysis
Week 10 14 Feb	· Determine environmental aspects of an organization. · Design an environmental management program to address a company’s environmental aspects.	Integrated environmental management systems and ISO 14001	Lecture discussion on EMS and ISO 14001	Students participate in class discussion and exercise.	Rubric for class participation.
Week 11 21 Feb	· Apply principles of environmental management system in designing environment management program of a business.	Integrated environmental management systems and ISO 14001.	Distribute the case Honda a week ahead. Students analyze the decisions to make to address the problem in the case.	Students analyze the decision of Honda to establish ISO 14001 into their production system.	Rubric for case analysis.
Week 12 28 Feb	· Apply techniques of environmental management accounting in managing wastes and pollution.	Environmental management accounting	Students report on cases of different companies incorporating environment accounting	Student presentation of cases of green purchasing.	Rubric for oral reporting
Week 13 7 Mar	· Distinguish the difference between logistics and reverse logistics	Transportation and Distribution, Reverse Logistics	Students analyze the case: BMW. Students evaluate BMW’s take-back strategy for recycled vehicle parts.	Students analyze the recycling strategies of BMW.	Rubric for oral reporting
Week 14 14 Mar	· Evaluate and compare recycling and remanufacturing · Explain the concept of extended producer responsibility	Product End-of-Life, Extended Producer Responsibility	Lecture discussion extended producer responsibility.	Students participate in class discussion.	Rubric for class participation.
Week 15 21 March	· Design sustainability performance indicators for organizations.	Life cycle management	Lecture discussion on steps in implementing a life cycle management in an organization. Group discussion on current initiatives in one department of a company and how this can be linked to another initiative in a different department to support LCM.	Students participate in class discussion.	Rubric for class participation.
Week 16 28 March	· Explain the various steps to building life cycle management in an organization.	Life cycle management	Lecture discussion on steps in implementing a life cycle management in an organization. Group discussion on current initiatives in one department of a company and how this can be linked to another initiative in a different department to support LCM.	Students present sustainability performance indicators for different companies.	Rubric for oral presentation.
Week 17 4 April	· Shutdown
Week 18 11 April	· Formulate a lifecycle management plan of an organization.	Finals

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