7167EXQ Environmental Management Systems and Auditing CW1 Brief

7167EXQ Assignment Task

• Essay on the relevance of organisational behaviour on environmental management in an organisation
• You may approach this essay in one of two ways depending on your experience and knowledge.

a) Taking one organisation which is well known to you, critically discuss how the use of environmental management systems or other tools and techniques in effecting environmental change may need to be adapted depending on different culture, customs and business practices.

OR

b) Critically discuss how the use of environmental management systems or other tools and techniques in effecting environmental change may need to be adapted depending on different culture, customs and business practices. 

In option a) you can reflect on your own experiences of situations involving different cultures, customs and business practices. You may consider different scales or geographical locations within an organisation. You must support your discussion with specific cases or situations and link them to theoretical or wider experiences.

In option b) you can use specific examples drawn from the literature to support your discussion. You must draw heavily on research literature or reports on the subject. You may choose to focus on either culture, custom and/or business practices.

7167EXQ Submission Instructions:

• Submission on Aula via link provided in ‘Assignment’ section.
• Formatting of submission (i.e., Microsoft Word) – NB. For written assignments this should always be Microsoft Word and not PDF.

7167EXQ Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief. Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the assessment task. The following module learning outcomes are assessed in this task:

• Critically discuss the significance of culture, customs and business practices in transformational environmental leadership