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Education for Sustainability: Creating Skills in Human Capital Analysis

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  • Carol Royal

    (School of Organisation and Management, Faculty of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

  • Loretta O'Donnell

    (Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

Abstract

This paper presents the role of an innovative university masters' degree programme as a basis for skills development in human capital analysis for finance and business students in their core degree programmes. The programme uses general systems theory to provide a framework for describing two components of the sustainable organisation: firstly, the inter-relationships of organisations to their context; and secondly, to describe the configuration of internal management systems. In the subject, the students take the role of human capital analysts in order to focus on defining, assessing and measuring the human elements of corporate sustainability. This postgraduate business subject has been developed within the framework of the UNSW guidelines on teaching and learning, designed to encourage innovation in both content and process. The authors conclude that the role of education is instrumental in creating a community of practice which uses sustainability principles as a basis for investment decision making amongst business students, who will be the next generation of executives and financial analysts.

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  • Carol Royal & Loretta O'Donnell, 2007. "Education for Sustainability: Creating Skills in Human Capital Analysis," Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 6(02), pages 115-125.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jikmxx:v:06:y:2007:i:02:n:s0219649207001718
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219649207001718
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    1. Hugo Valdés & Christian Correa & Felipe Mellado, 2018. "Proposed Model of Sustainable Construction Skills for Engineers in Chile," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-19, August.

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