Responsible supply chain

A/Prof Ingrid Landau, 2025

Integrating respect for human rights across business operations.

Purpose

To educate business students on global business and human rights standards and expectations, practical implementation challenges and innovative practices.

Practice

Human Rights and Global Business draws on contemporary case studies and industry insights to equip students with the knowledge and skills required to recognise and address human rights challenges in everyday business.

Personal reflective tasks encourage students to consider how what they are learning relates to other business school subjects, as well as broader approaches such as sustainability; and a group assignment requires students to collaborate to develop practical solutions to a contemporary business and human rights challenge.

The unit’s major assessment task involves students selecting their own focus company and completing five activities throughout the unit that require them to apply what they have been learning that week to their focus company. Students also produce a final briefing in which they propose and evaluate practical strategies for their company to address salient human rights issues.

Outcomes

Consistently high student engagement and satisfaction ratings; students equipped with the capabilities to identify and respond to human rights challenges in everyday business; expansion of the unit to include undergraduate as well as postgraduate students.

Alumni have pursued careers in responsible supply chain management in global companies.

Monash faculty invited to share innovative approaches to business and human rights education with other institutions in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Pacific Islands.