Sustainable Enterprise Excellence builds on the foundations of quality management, business excellence modeling, organizational self-assessment, and corporate social & environmental responsibility, using socio-environmental innovation as an integrating theme, while also considering the importance of organizational design. The goal of the course is to integrate sustainability and enterprise excellence theory and methods to provide a single %E2%80%9Csustainable enterprise excellence%E2%80%9D approach aimed at joint optimization at the organizational level of the triple bottom line economic, societal, and environmental sustainability domains. Course content will be filtered through business excellence, corporate social & environmental responsibility (CSER), and quality management lenses. Useful, but not required background for this course includes exposure to quality management and CSER principles.This course presents a unified approach to assessment of organizational progress toward Sustainable Enterprise Excellence (SEE), that is, integrated assessment of enterprise excellence and corporate social & environmental responsibility. Socio-environmental innovation and organizational design considerations are treated as enablers of SEE and hence as providers of impetus in an organization%E2%80%99s quest to become continuously relevant and responsible. A team-based project focus is used to integrate application experience with theoretical knowledge.

Course leader
Teacher: Rick Edgeman: http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/rick.edgeman@icoa.au.dk

Target group
Master's level.Master students

Fee info
EUR 333: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 333 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 499 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description.

Scholarships
No scholarships available

Aarhus University
Address: International Centre, H%C3%B8egh Guldbergsgade 4-6
Postal code: 8000
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/summeruniversity
E-mail: dfs@au.dk
Phone: +4551335274