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Governance, Ethics and Sustainability

Assessment - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Business

Type - Management Proposal

Your Task
Part A: Conduct a short oral presentation in-class, proposing one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) that the fictional case study company can adopt as a contribution to sustainability.
Part B: Develop a short Management Proposal (1,200 words), enabling the case company to adopt your proposed SDG within an 18-month timeframe.

Case Study - Yonder Wyld

Assessment Description
The ability to pitch ideas to senior staff, including a company's Board and Senior Management
team, is an important workplace skill.
The ability to write a short workplace document such as a Management Proposal is also highly valued in the modern workplace.

Learning Outcome 1: Analyse the role of the board in the assessment of strategy and risk, and the way in which this expertise can be better utilised

Learning Outcome 2: Analyse the sustainability initiatives practiced within organisations and determine their effectiveness in meeting corporate and ethical objectives

Learning Outcome 3: Apply corporate sustainability practices in a real-world example and examine their appropriateness in a variety of contexts

Assessment Instructions

Click some of the interactive links, to understand what those goals mean, who benefits from that goal, and what businesses can do to promote sustainable development within and across national boundaries, by adopting one or more of the UN SDGs.

Part A (Short Oral Presentation)
Prepare a slide deck of between 3 and 5 slides. Your slides will briefly describe:
Your proposed SDG, and the persons or communities that SDG is designed to help.
Some actions an Australian business such as Yonder Wyld might take, to contribute to that SDG.
You will be invited to speak to these slides for 3 minutes in class during your Week 11 or Week 12 workshop.

Part B (Management Proposal)
Write a Management Proposal (1,200 words) outlining a staged approach enabling the case company to target and contribute to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Your report will include the following sections:

Introduction: Background information (brief description) of the proposed SDG. Specify outcomes the company can aim for in pursuit of that goal. (200 words)

Why Yonder Wyld? How the company's resources and expertise could make a significant contribution under this SDG. (100-200 words)

Stakeholder analysis of some internal and external stakeholders of the case company, and the roles they might be assigned as beneficiaries or enablers of the SDG. (300 words)

Roles and Actions for Board, Management, and the Venture Sales team, in realizing this SDG. This section should specify an ordered sequence of steps, for achieving the proposed outcomes under this SDG. (300 words)

Measuring Success: Indicate metrics that would demonstrate the case company's success in achieving that SDG. These metrics might include people involved, dollars spent, activities undertaken, employment achieved. (200-300 words)

References: Include full details of every webpage and source you used for this assessment, including 5 academic sources. References used for your oral presentation powerpoint should be included here. (No word limit).

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