CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - BMEGT42M700

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will: The basic objectiv of the course is to teach students about the role of environmental protection and sustainable development in company management: the most important environmental issues, the motivations behind and the factors determining the behaviour of the companies and the tools available to them. Students should be able to recognise and utilise the potentials of environmental protection within a business setting, to reduce environmental risks and to be able to define the role of environmental protection in the operations of the company taking other corporate management systems also into account. Students should be able to assess the environmental performance of a company and to choose and employ the right environmental management tools to improve it.

1. Understands the factors determining corporate environmental strategy; potential strategy types
2. Understands the importance of corporate environmental risks and their impact on company environmental management
3. Understands the most important environmental approaches used by companies, their benefits and drawbacks
4. Understands and is able to implement the various tools of company environmental management (environmental marketing, environmetnal performance evaluation, etc.)
5. Understands the principles of environmental management systems, their operating mechanisms and elements
6. Understands the market mechanisms determing the implementation EMSs, the role of market players
7. Understands the concept of business modeling and the environmental and social aspects of companies using an innovative business model

1. Able to assess the environmental performance of company in a complex fashion
2. Recognises the basic features of environmental strategies, the factors determining strategy choice
3. Recognises the stakeholders of corporations and tasks related to them
4. Able to use the triple layered business model canvas in case of businesses using innovative business models

1. Open to a deeper understanding of company operations, its environmental aspects
2. Strives to solve problems by cooperation with others
3. Is critical about the role of social groups effected by environmental and social problems
4. Strives to understand complex systems

1. Able to independently assess corporate environmental performance
2. Show responsible thinking towards environmental and social issues in a company setting
3. Open to critical thinking
4. Cooperates with fellow students to solve problems.

Theoretical lectures and practicals. Group work during and beyond classes. Info-communications tools, corporate and other professional study materials.

• Giselle Weybrecht: The Sustainable MBA: A Business Guide to Sustainability, John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN13 9781118760635
• Ed: Kósi Kálmán - Valkó László: Környezetmenedzsment. (Tankönyv; BME - Typotex Kiadó, Budapest, 2008.). ISBN 963-9664-07-3
• Csutora Mária – Kerekes Sándor: A környezetbarát vállalatirányítás eszközei (KJK-KERSZÖV Jogi és Üzleti Kiadó Kft., Budapest, 2004. ISBN 963 224 742 6)

A 2.2. pontban megfogalmazott tanulási eredmények értékelése vizsga keretében a vizsgaidőszakban (összegző tanulmányi teljesítményértékelés).

A. Szorgalmi időszakban végzett teljesítményértékelések részletes leírása: - B. Vizsgaidőszakban végzett teljesítményértékelés részletes leírása: 1. Összegző tanulmányi teljesítményértékelés: a tantárgy tudás és képesség típusú kompetenciaelemeinek komplex, írásos értékelési módja vizsgadolgozat keretében. A dolgozat az elsajátított ismeretek felmérésére és azok alkalmazására fókuszál, így a fogalmak pontos ismeretén kívül a probléma-felismerést és megoldást helyezi a középpontba

TVSZ szerint.

A 2.2. pontban megfogalmazott tanulási eredmények eléréséhez a tantárgy a következő tematikai blokkok-ból áll. Az egyes félévekben meghirdetett kurzusok sillabuszaiban e témaelemeket ütemezzük a naptári és egyéb adottságok szerint.