Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in business engineering, professional focus in sustainable performance management | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course puts into practice the main models and tools used to model how the overall performance of an organization is generated and controlled, and how it can be made more sustainable.
It focuses on the strategic management of an organization in order to optimize its performance and level of sustainability in the long term, and shows the tools it can use to ensure that it achieves its long-term objectives and integrates financial, environmental and social concerns. In particular, through the development of a dual materiality matrix in response to the 2022 European directive on the publication of sustainability information by companies (CSRD - 2022).
It is structured around 2 themes that are addressed in turn:
- The first theme is devoted to assessing the organization's performance.
- The second is dedicated to improving this performance and to the dynamics of organizational change with a view to continuously improving performance in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world in search of increasing sustainability.
Each of the 2 topics will be prepared and presented in groups of 4 students.
In addition, as the course progresses through its various stages, groups of no more than 4 students prepare and then defend the dual materiality matrix of a technologically innovative company, integrating contributions from the 2 themes presented. This analysis will be carried out in a real company before being presented and defended in the oral exam.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Strengthening knowledge and understanding of basic management disciplines in order to use them to perform a rigorous analysis of a management situation and provide pertinent solutions
- Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the following fields: performance management systems and risk management and being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases
- Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
- Ability to use modelization methods in the fields of performance management and reliability optimisation when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
- Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology, innovation, change or production
- Being capable of professional practical working
- Developing a critical sense (arguing)
- Developing a transversal, global vision
- Creative conception of solutions
- Professional capacity for oral and written communication
- Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Prerequisites :
- Management accounting
- Management control
- Business Modelling, Control & Planning (or equivalent)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
In their groups, students will apply the main tools and models presented in the course and gradually apply them, in co-construction with the other groups, to the development of the double materiality matrix of an existing technologically innovative company.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Further information:
Combining face-to-face and distance learning activities
Additional explanations:
The course is organized in 3 sessions focusing on theoretical concepts. These sessions consist of the presentation and discussion of the various tools used in the course.
A minimum of three group coaching sessions are also organized to monitor the progressive progress of the work in the company.
The course is held on the dates and at the locations communicated on the University's official channels.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
All the necessary resources are available here :
http://lola.hec.uliege.be/course/view.php?id=312
Exam(s) in session
January exam session
- In-person
oral exam
August-September exam session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
Topic 1: 15 %
Topic 2: 15 %
Presentation of the results of the practical application of the proposed tools during an oral interview, based on a report of a maximum of 25 pages excluding appendices: 70%.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Teacher :
Prof. D. Van Caillie, D.VanCaillie@uliege.be
Assistant :
Louise Colling, louise.colling@uliege.be