Business Futures: Sustainable Business Through Green HR

Who is the course for?

This course is aimed at professionals and students in disciplines of operations, finance, marketing, or human resources, who wish to learn more about sustainable Green HR practices.

What topics will you cover?

What is green HR and how relevant is it to organisations becoming sustainable

The nature of sustainability including internal and external drivers toward change and barriers inhibiting change to show the nature of the organisational mindset required to acknowledge the need to move toward sustainability and beyond compliance

Sustainable return on investment (S-ROI) and ‘Triple top line’ (TTL) to demonstrate how sustainability gains can be measured and valued by the business

The role of HR in corporate human sustainability to show operational functions for sustainability within the business including networking and green rewards

Human sustainability to understand the importance of human capital and being inclusive of all stakeholders

Ecological sustainability to distinguish between green practices and organisation-wide sustainability and show how leadership is required to go beyond rhetoric and provide transparency

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Define sustainability from an ecological and human resource perspective

Identify the stages of sustainability, and the drivers of change to business sustainability

Define and apply green HR tools and strategies

Develop green HR as a concept for organisations to achieve beyond compliance

Explore the concept of triple top line approach for sustainability

Explore the elements of green HR and the linkages between ecological and human sustainability