Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability

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Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

Professor of Ethics and Sustainability Leadership

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Peter McGhee

Senior Lecturer; Deputy Head of Department of Management

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Amber Nicholson

Lecturer

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Peter Skilling

Senior Lecturer

Why this course

  • This cutting-edge course advances inclusive business perspectives and practices by incorporating Indigenous knowledge into the management curriculum

  • New Zealand-based, the curriculum weaves Māori traditions and cultural worldview alongside western business frameworks to challenge assumptions around corporate responsibility, ethical decision-making, corporate transparency and environmentally sustainable business practices

  • The course gives students the skills to explore their own values and culture, learn from and appreciate the culture of others, and purposely integrate what they discover into how they manage and build business organizations

 

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Learning Objectives:

  • Use appropriate tools to analyse and evaluate business situations where environmental, social and economic concerns arise

  • Debate and defend rationales for responsible business practice

  • Determine the drivers, and identify business opportunities, for socially and environmentally sustainable practice.

  • Through studying business practice examples, derive and defend business strategies and management practices to advance responsible business practice.

Q+A between Amber Nicholson (Ngāruahine) and Peter Skilling on indigenous perspectives and business:

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Biography

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma is Professor of Ethics and Sustainability Leadership at AUT Business School, where her research focuses on how sustainability practices enhance meaning and well-being in the workplace. She also researches the roles and responsibilities of sustainability officers, the processes people use to assess the value of their work, and what (new) organisational approaches are required to speed up the sustainability agenda. Marjolein has a strong interest in engaging and empowering young people in sustainability issues. World renowned for her expertise, Marjolein is co-director of Map of Meaning International, a trust that aims to help organisations create and maintain meaningful work. She is also a member of the University Sustainability Taskforce and heads the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) international initiative.

Peter McGhee (Te Aupōuri) is a Senior Lecturer in and Deputy Head of the Department of Management at AUT Business School. Prior to joining AUT in 2000, Peter worked for nearly a decade as a risk analyst and operations manager for two different multinationals in the financial services industry. His expertise and research interests lie in business ethics, workplace spirituality, sustainability, and critical management studies; his recent work focuses on ethical leadership, human quality treatment at work, and educating for sustainability. Peter is widely published in a range of esteemed business, ethics and sustainability journals. He is a board member of The Leprosy Mission New Zealand (TLMNZ), a global development agency working with people affected by leprosy.

Amber Nicholson (Ngāruahine) is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at AUT Business School. Informed by a decade of Māori-led research experience, Amber teaches ethics and sustainability, and leadership. Amber is a PhD candidate whose thesis, Whenua tūpuna, whenua hauora: Ancestral and relational landscapes, explores ways to enhance wellbeing through recognising and honouring the ancestral landscapes in which businesses operate. She argues that an Indigenous Māori worldview involves spiritual and genealogical ties to the Earth and thus deepens the notion of what is referred to in modern business practice as sustainability. She is a member of the international Indigenous collective K.I.N.

Peter Skilling is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at AUT Business School, where he has been teaching in the area of business ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability for over 10 years. He is interested in the ways society responds to pressing social problems, such as in-work poverty and climate change, and much of his work focuses on the interactions between business, governments and society. He was significant in developing the suite of courses that comprise the Sustainable Enterprise minor. Peter has a broader interest in the ways in which people and groups of people (workers, for example, or local communities) can participate in the decisions that affect their lives. From 2013-2016, Peter led a research project exploring New Zealanders’ attitudes towards economic inequality, and he continues to produce work on this topic.