Description

Throughout this simulation, you will play the role of the new chief executive officer of Coastal Industries, a fictional manufacturer of industrial transformers. During the simulation, you will be asked to make a series of decisions as Coastal Industries adopts sustainable management practices. These decisions will involve the company`s operations, its standing in the community, and its relations with local government and state and federal regulators. Each of your decisions will affect Coastal Industries in different ways. Your goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following leadership factors.

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of the key leadership skills necessary for effective sustainable management. Those skills include:

Balancing competing concerns, such as management/employee preferences, community interests, and financial needs
Taking charge as a new leader
Analyzing financial data and using that information to make educated decisions
Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative responses both internally and externally
Understanding the relationship between corporate responsibility and the community
Managing organizational change
Finding compromises that meet short and long-term financial objectives
Assessing sustainability practices and measuring their organizational and financial impacts.