Teaching Sustainability in the Boardroom and Beyond: Preparing Management Graduates for SDG-Aligned Decision Making

Abstract

Sustainable management needs to be a concern of leadership more strongly than ever in the age of ever-increasing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Business schools have a special part in producing the future leaders not only good at management but capable of making which will match to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The following paper explores how the concept of sustainability education can be integrated into the curricula of management programs, thus ensuring the promotion of defined competencies of decision-making associated with SDGs within graduates. Through an investigation of current pedagogical and curriculum-design models within the industry, and requirements of those pedagogical models, the study will suggest a multidimensional approach to teaching that encompasses not only theoretical education, but also experience-based learning and values-based training in leadership. Based on the findings, curriculum change is very influential and can bring a great improvement in student’s awareness and decision-making powers towards sustainability when it is promoted by institutional commitment and stakeholder involvement. The given study can be discussed in terms of the debate about responsible management education and can provide practical suggestions to academia and policy makers.