Topic outline

  • Discuss the Actions You Can Take Within Your Workplace

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    • Task

      Identify the realistic, practical and sustainable ways you could enact change within your workplace (or community organisation).

      Learning Outcome

      After completing this task you should be able to:

      • understand the significance of social and environmental issues
      • identify international and local responses to social and environmental issues

      Due

      End of week 1.

      Notes

      In regard to the environmental and social issue of climate change, the world has progressed a long way in reducing our reliance upon coal. Renewable energy is growing exponentially and, in December 2015, 195 countries approved the Paris agreement on climate change and agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

      More is yet to be done, and this task gets you to consider what part you can play in your present (or future) role in the workforce.

      Please note: The inclusion of the Chartered Accountants video in no way endorses Chartered Accountants ANZ, but uses it to make the compelling case for the role you can play as an accountant (or any role within a business for that matter) to drive business decisions that not only help create better economies, but better communities as well.

      Suggested Procedure

      1. Watch the selected portion of Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change (TED 2016)

        Presentation length: 12m 04s

      2. Watch Become a Difference Maker. Become a Chartered Accountant (Chartered Accountants ANZ 2017)

        Presentation length: 45s

      3. Consider the following:
        • What does sustainable accounting and reporting mean to you personally?
        • How do you see your role (or future role) within the workplace?
        • What steps could you undertake (or have undertaken) to champion (or raise awareness of) an initiative that would reduce the social and environmental impact of an organisation you are involved with (i.e. your workplace or a community organisation)?
        • What are the potential hurdles that need to be overcome (e.g. your position within the organisation, the organisational culture, etc.)? How will you overcome them?
      4. Compose a discussion posting that includes your response to these questions.
      5. Post it to the Week 1 forum.
      6. Review others' responses. Comment on at least one that could work for you in your setting and/or that provided helpful ideas for how to overcome the potential barriers to getting the idea heard or implemented.

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