MN32214: Sustainable operations management
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 70%, CWVG 30% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Group presentation on case study (CWVG 30%)
- Individual essay based on analysing the sustainability of operations a chosen company (CWES 70%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take MN12008 OR take MN22161 OR take MN20017 OR take MN10572
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Critically assess the role of Operations Management in improving corporate sustainability.
- Evaluate the sustainability performance of an organisation, or a subset of the operations of an organisation, while evaluating the suitability of various metrics.
- Assess various pathways to improved sustainability performance through product, process, organisation, and supply chain design.
- Analyse various implementation strategies designed to improve sustainability performance.
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| Synopsis: | Develop the skills and knowledge necessary to profitably manage sustainability. Through lectures and seminars, you will be exposed to how consumers and clients demand environmentally and socially responsible products and production, regulators are keen to pass relevant legislation, and dwindling resources mean production is expensive. You will learn tools and techniques to measure an organisations sustainability performance, translate these into design, and implement and improve the design.
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| Content: | Likely topics for this unit include:
Operations Management and Sustainability
Sustainability Metrics / Systems Thinking
Sources of operations sustainability risk
Carbon footprinting
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
The Circular Economy
Sustainability strategy
Environmental Management Systems
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| Course availability: |
MN32214 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-ANB07 : BSc(Hons) Business with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 4)
- UMMN-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB04 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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