Environmental Ethics and Integrating Sustainability into Management Education

Abstract

The integration of sustainability and environmental ethics into management education has improved in the past decade and these concepts are adopted by management schools. Business schools have integrated and communicated social, economic and ecological sustainability in their educational programmes, research and their organizational practices and processes. This is partly a response to external pressure, as societal concerns about sustainability grow and businesses have made greater efforts to green their processes and products. But it is also a response to internal pressure from faculty who has focused their research on the intersection of business and the natural environment. Academic administrators such as deans can encourage this integration in a number of ways. Business schools have already made commitments to contributing to sustainability education nowadays. This paper examined the impact of a procedure implemented and used at management colleges to promote integration of the concept of sustainability and environment ethics into courses. The results of this paper after study indicated that this
procedure can indeed stimulate faculty members to integrate sustainable development in their courses. It is clear that the reported changes in courses were also influenced by other factors such as the increased general awareness of environmental issues. It then identifies
some key enabling factors and barriers to successful integration of sustainability themes into the management education.