Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Sustainability Education
2.2. Industry-Oriented Sustainability-Related Curriculum Design
3. Methodology
3.1. Concept Mapping
3.2. Concept Mapping for Business Sustainability Curriculum
4. Results
5. Conclusions and Discussions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Industry | Job Title | Experience (Yr) | |
---|---|---|---|
Participant 01 | Logistics service provider | Manager | 12 |
Participant 02 | Government office | Director | 14 |
Participant 03 | Semiconductor | Senior engineer | 8 |
Participant 04 | Semiconductor | Senior director | 26 |
Participant 05 | Semiconductor | Engineer | 4 |
Participant 06 | Semiconductor | Manager | 7 |
Participant 07 | Information service provider | Senior manager | 10 |
Participant 08 | Semiconductor | Engineer | 6 |
Participant 09 | Semiconductor | Senior manager | 8 |
Participant 10 | Semiconductor | Engineering director | 12 |
Participant 11 | Green recycling | Director | 12 |
Participant 12 | Government office | Technician | 7 |
Participant 13 | Education | Professor | 24 |
Participant 14 | Logistics service provider | Engineer | 2 |
Rank In Importance | Topic No. | Cluster | Topics | Importance Weight | Difficulty Weight |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 12 | 2 | Disaster prevention | 4.3 | 2.3 |
2 | 13 | 3 | Internal audit for business sustainability | 4.3 | 3.2 |
3 | 45 | 3 | Knowledge of green supply chains | 4.1 | 3.0 |
4 | 49 | 2 | Managing CO2 emission reduction and energy saving | 4.1 | 3.0 |
5 | 35 | 2 | Labor safety | 4.0 | 2.2 |
6 | 5 | 2 | Company energy management | 3.9 | 2.7 |
7 | 11 | 3 | Investment analysis for business sustainability | 3.9 | 3.6 |
8 | 30 | 3 | Embedding plan, do, check, act (PDCA) into sustainability operations | 3.9 | 3.2 |
9 | 34 | 2 | Disaster response | 3.9 | 2.5 |
10 | 7 | 1 | Greenhouse gas emission | 3.8 | 2.8 |
11 | 17 | 3 | Business ethics and social responsibility | 3.8 | 2.0 |
12 | 18 | 3 | Knowing business sustainability | 3.8 | 2.0 |
13 | 27 | 4 | Cultivating employee morality and integrity | 3.8 | 1.9 |
14 | 52 | 2 | Awareness of ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certification systems (e.g., ISO14000, 14064, OHSAS18000, SA8000) | 3.8 | 3.3 |
15 | 9 | 3 | Sustainable product life-cycle planning | 3.7 | 3.1 |
16 | 43 | 2 | Management and control of raw materials | 3.7 | 3.4 |
17 | 3 | 5 | Human resource management | 3.6 | 2.3 |
18 | 15 | 1 | Waste recycling management | 3.6 | 2.5 |
19 | 44 | 5 | Awareness of food quality and safety | 3.6 | 2.0 |
20 | 47 | 4 | Moral consciousness | 3.6 | 1.8 |
21 | 4 | 2 | Production management | 3.5 | 2.8 |
22 | 6 | 1 | Water resource reduction and recycling | 3.5 | 2.5 |
23 | 8 | 2 | Quality management | 3.5 | 3.1 |
24 | 10 | 3 | Investment payback period analysis | 3.5 | 2.8 |
25 | 20 | 3 | Communicating with enterprise stakeholders | 3.5 | 2.6 |
26 | 33 | 2 | Human resource management | 3.5 | 2.9 |
27 | 38 | 2 | Education on occupational accident prevention | 3.5 | 1.6 |
28 | 51 | 2 | Performing business continuity management (BCM) in risks and operations | 3.5 | 3.7 |
29 | 1 | 5 | Lacking talented personnel | 3.4 | 2.1 |
30 | 2 | 1 | Carbon emission | 3.4 | 2.8 |
31 | 24 | 5 | Awareness of global resource scarcity | 3.4 | 1.9 |
32 | 28 | 3 | Building sustainability culture | 3.4 | 2.5 |
33 | 48 | 3 | Studying cases related to sustainability operations | 3.4 | 2.0 |
34 | 29 | 5 | Knowledge of corporate operational regulations (tax, HR, etc.) | 3.3 | 2.5 |
35 | 36 | 3 | Sustainable procurement cost analysis | 3.3 | 2.9 |
36 | 16 | 5 | Environmental protection regulations and initiatives | 3.2 | 2 |
37 | 19 | 2 | Capability of analyzing financial statement | 3.2 | 3.4 |
38 | 21 | 3 | Analysis of corporate annual sustainability data | 3.1 | 3.5 |
39 | 25 | 5 | Knowledge of sustainable procurement-related regulations | 3.1 | 2.8 |
40 | 37 | 5 | Fundamental knowledge of laws and regulations | 3.1 | 2.3 |
41 | 41 | 5 | Knowledge of fundamental procurement operations | 3.1 | 2.3 |
42 | 42 | 1 | Water footprint management | 3.1 | 2.7 |
43 | 26 | 3 | Analysis of the impacts of business operations on social costs | 3.0 | 3.1 |
44 | 32 | 3 | Transparency in business operations | 3.0 | 2.6 |
45 | 46 | 4 | Employee benefits and bonuses | 2.9 | 1.7 |
46 | 23 | 5 | Intellectual property rights | 2.8 | 2.3 |
47 | 40 | 4 | Community communication | 2.8 | 2.1 |
48 | 14 | 5 | Proficiency at ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) operations | 2.7 | 2.4 |
49 | 22 | 3 | Knowledge of sustainability investment | 2.7 | 3.5 |
50 | 31 | 3 | Social return on investment (SROI) | 2.7 | 3.5 |
51 | 50 | 4 | Educating employees and community on sustainable environment | 2.7 | 1.8 |
52 | 39 | 4 | Encouraging employees to participate in charity activities | 2.1 | 1.2 |
Cluster (No. of Topics in the Cluster) | Alpha | F | Sig. | Grand Mean Importance/Difficulty | Percent | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Resource usage reduction and management (5) | 0.821 | 4.871 | 0.001 | 3.48/2.66 | 21.15% |
2 | Corporate governance and labor safety (13) | 0.977 | 6.371 | 0.001 | 3.72/2.84 | 9.62% |
3 | Business sustainability practices (17) | 0.741 | 3.687 | 0.001 | 3.48/2.89 | 25.00% |
4 | Employee rights and community involvement (6) | 0.863 | 7.236 | 0.001 | 2.98/1.75 | 32.69% |
5 | Knowing the laws and regulations (11) | 0.807 | 5.511 | 0.001 | 3.21/2.26 | 11.54% |
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Chen, M.-h.; Wu, Y.J.; Tsai, K.-m. Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4698. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124698
Chen M-h, Wu YJ, Tsai K-m. Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education. Sustainability. 2018; 10(12):4698. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124698
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Mei-hui, Yenchun Jim Wu, and Kune-muh Tsai. 2018. "Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education" Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4698. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124698
APA StyleChen, M.-h., Wu, Y. J., & Tsai, K.-m. (2018). Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education. Sustainability, 10(12), 4698. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124698