Handbook

All organisations are facing pressures to improve their performance of sustainability from various sources including capital markets, government regulations, consumer and increasingly their own employees. The Human Resources (HR) function has an important role to play in helping organisations effectively embed improved sustainability practices, and by the same token the ability of HR to perform its role is impacted by organisation's approach to sustainability. In this course students will be introduced to the sustainability challenges that organisations face and will assess the contribution that the HR function and HR policies and practices can make to addressing these challenges. You will examine examples of how the HR function is engaging with and supporting organisations' initiatives to improve sustainability and will develop strategies for how HR in your organisation can work with different stakeholders to improve environmental outcomes.