Sustainablity and Quality Management (5cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

Student can identify different quality ideologies. Student can explain the basic concept of quality control. Student can use the common quality tools and statistical process control. Student can identify quality costs and their significance.
The student has basic knowledge about:
- holistic sustainable management and its dimensions (environmental, social, economic)
- the environmental factors affecting human beings and their operational environment,
- renewable and non-renewable natural resources
- the relations between production activities and environment
- the effects of production in local, regional and global level.
The student is aware about the methods, how to decrease the negative affects of production to the environment.

Content

- Factors affecting the quality
- The history of quality control
- Measuring quality and quality
- Seven basic tools of quality
- Quality costs (internal and external)
- Total Quality Management TQM
- Environmental concepts
- Definitions and dimensions of sustainable development
- Renewable and unrenewable natural resources; utilisation and its affects
- Waste management and recycling

Materials

The learning material will be presentations and the use of the platform.
Recommended literature will be Global Corporate Sustainability report 2024. https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/03/global-corporate-sustainability-report-2024_d8e1e8b4/8416b635-en.pdf

Teaching methods

Sustainability and Quality Management teaching methods include Presentations, videos and mostly the use of a Simulation module about managing and innovating with ESG considerations. Presentations from the students, quices and simulation results.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Student can satisfyingly name different quality ideologies. Student can satisfyingly explain basic concepts of quality control. Student can satisfyingly use different quality tools and statistical quality control. Student can satisfyingly identify quality costs and their significance.

Student has basic knowledge about the environmental factors and relations between industrial activities and environment. Student knows satisfyingly the ways to control the harmful effects of humans and industrial activities to the nature.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Student can well name different quality ideologies. Student can well explain basic concepts of quality control. Student can well use different quality tools and statistical quality control. Student can well identify quality costs and their significance.

Student has good knowledge about the environmental factors and relations between industrial activities and environment. Student knows well the ways to control the harmful effects of humans and industrial activities to the nature.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Student can excellently name different quality ideologies. Student can excellently explain basic concepts of quality control. Student can excellently use different quality tools and statistical quality control. Student can excellently identify quality costs and their significance.

Student has excellent knowledge about the environmental factors and relations between industrial activities and environment. Student knows excellently the ways to control the harmful effects of humans and industrial activities to the nature.

Qualifications

Basic studies