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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...management requires action at all levels and by organisations of all types and sizes. However it is not always clear what we mean by environmental management and the role that organisations do and could play. This free course, explores the different interpretations and viewpoints involved by using system thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand...
Using and managing waste
Science, Maths & Technology

Using and managing waste

...management of municipal and industrial waste is essential in any society, but is particularly crucial for a future in which we face diminishing resources and a growing population. This album considers the issues that are driving the waste management industry across the EU, looking in depth at processes of recycling, landfill, incineration, obtaining energy from waste, and...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...Managing Relationships theme within the Applying Psychology to Work hub has been designed to help you understand your workplace relationships. It provides you with skills, tools, resources and short courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...managing, introduces three contemporary approaches (managing through organisational culture, managing through internal marketing, and managing through collective leadership). These approaches require you to think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom. ...This free online course, Contemporary issues in managing, introduces three contemporary approaches...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...managing risk, provides an introduction to financial risk management. The processes of risk identification, risk measurement and risk management are explored. The course then goes on to examine reputational risk and operational risk. It concludes with an examination of the subject of behavioural finance and what this can contribute to our understanding of risk taking and...
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...management. This free course, Technology, innovation and management, will provide you with an overview and introduction to a range of related concepts, ideas and debates. It adopts a broad definition of innovation and subscribes to the view that a fundamental feature of any innovation process is that it results in gaining value...Develop a critical understanding of...
Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...management) and explore some advice that might help you balance between life, study and other potential demands on your time. Before you read on, why not take a look at these easy time management tips and reflect on which of these you do at the moment and where you could do more. Making time [Time management] There is no getting away from the fact that life can be very...
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...Managing coastal environments, looks at the example of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England, describing how the current state of the estuary came to be. It examines the contests and conflicts that centre on the estuary in terms of managing the environment for human needs and the needs of the other species who make their habitat there...Coastal environments are by...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs