This course is designed to introduce participants to the key questions over the future direction of business and management practice.

This course will be delivered through a series of lectures, guest lectures and seminars over semester 2.

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2000 word individual assignment

This course is designed to introduce participants to key questions over the future direction of business and management practice. It introduces a range of intellectual and disciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences and other allied disciplines such as engineering, environmental science and medicine, identifying the key challenges that organisations face as they seek to develop sustainably in a fast changing world.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Integrate topics covered by guest speakers and lessons learnt through the MBA to assess tensions between internal and external strategic issues affecting the sustainable development of an organisation.

2. Criticise analytical tools, frameworks and or models available in academic and business practice literatures to select the most appropriate and create a possible future for a specific organisation.

3. Evaluate how organisations identify, quantify and react to risk and discuss how to manage it.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.