Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Social Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainability

What Will You Learn?

• Explain the terms and implications of the following concepts: ethics, social responsibility, morals
• Explain how corporate social responsibility (CSR) evolved and encompasses economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic components
• Determine how moral philosophy affects the decisions human beings make in their everyday lives
• Describe the complexities of environmental sustainability issues as they relate to the intricate connections between people and the planet (systems thinking)
• Articulate the concept where ethical values are embedded in the premises and assumptions of all decisions we make concerning land and resource use
• Evaluate environmental sustainability challenges with a futurist thinking perspective including possible futures (what may happen), plausible futures (what could happen), probable futures (what likely will happen), and preferable futures (what we want to have happen)
• Express awareness of the mind shift that needs to happen for society to adopt sustainable environmental practices
• Suggest solutions and hypothesize on ways to mitigate carbon footprints