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Governance, Ethics, and Sustainability
Assessment - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Business
Case Study - YonderEd Training and Education
Task
Part A: Produce a deck of 3 powerpoint slides, proposing one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) that the fictional case study company can adopt as a contribution to sustainability. Hire best assignment help and experienced tutors now!
Part B: Develop a short Management Proposal (1,500 words), enabling the case company to adopt your proposed SDG within an 18-month timeframe.
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
Become familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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.
You might also like to look at the Global Sustainable Development Report for 2023
Part A
Prepare a slide deck of 3 slides, that briefly pitches your proposal to the Senior Management team.
Slide 1: Introduction. Describe your proposed SDG, plus the target beneficiaries (persons or communities that the company's SDG is designed to help).
Slide 2: Company Contribution. Describe how an existing company product or activity will be leveraged to create the company's SDG contribution.
Slide 3: SDG Business Case. Indicate what benefit(s) the company will gain from the SDG project.
Part B (Management Proposal)
Write a Management Proposal (1,500 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. (300 words)
Why YonderEd? How the company's resources and expertise could make a significant contribution under this SDG. (250 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. (350 words)
Roles and Actions for Board, Management, and your Community Engagement team, in realizing this SDG. This section should specify an ordered sequence of steps, for achieving the proposed outcomes under this SDG. (350 words)
Measuring Success: Indicate metrics that would demonstrate YonderEd's success in achieving that SDG. These metrics might include people involved, dollars spent, activities undertaken, employment achieved. (250 words)
References: Include full details of every webpage and source you used for this assessment (Parts A and B), including 5 academic sources. (No word limit). All references used for your slide deck should be included here.