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Module Readings and Assignment:

Complete the following readings early in the module:

Read the overview/online lectures for the Module

From the textbook, Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, read the following chapters:

Re-embedding innovation strategy

Building the sustainable global enterprise

From the Internet, read:

GLOBE-net. (2008, January). CleanTech investing: The green gold rush. GreenBiz.

Module Overview

Assignment: Course Project-Need for Sustainability Manager

Instructions: A Sustainability Manager provides a specific focus on the environmental and social concerns of the company. In this assignment you will explore the importance of this position and the incorporated responsibilities.

Review what happens next at Top Shelf:

Top Shelf has a fairly typical ratio of managers to employees. However, your team knows that having a dedicated staff to focus on sustainability has worked well at other companies.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research sustainable management. Identify and research companies that have a sustainability manager (SM) or a similar position.

Select three companies for use in this assignment. At least one of the three selected companies should also be in the retail industry.

Prepare a report making a case for Top Shelf to hire an SM. Cover the following in your report:

Explain the role and importance of an SM within a company.

Analyze the approach of your selected three companies toward sustainable management.

Provide rationale for Top Shelf to have a management focus on sustainability.

Explain the specific responsibilities the SM will take up at Top Shelf and the benefits and costs associated with the hire.

Write a 2-3-page report in Word format.

Turned-in on time, Grading criteria followed All assignment qualifications addressed correctly, Grading Criteria followed,

Include Question followed by the answer Reference Page Included Cover page Included, Paragraphs Indented, Running-head included, main heading should be centered; all new paragraphs should be indented; paper should be right ragged, not right justified; references, should always go on a standalone page.

Abstracts are not usually indented; acronyms should be spelled out when using them for the first time, for example HR. references as listed are APA standard.

When you submit your papers through turnitin, your overall similarity index score should not be exceedingly high, with ten to fifteen percent being the maximum, Please make sure your APA formatting of citations. I have provided the APA resource cite for you.

Please work on using literature within the span of the last 5 years, keep in mind there should not be any one, two, or three sentence paragraphs

Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Apply APA standards to citation of sources.