Sustainability is the ability of productive activities to continue without harm to the ecological system (2). According to IISD (3) sustainable development means adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.…
The competitive environment in today’s business world poses many dangers to the sustainability of the biosphere, which is so vital to life. Business organizations have a responsibility to help sustain and preserve the environment for future generations. Corporations must take initiative in developing business plans that incorporate sustainable business practices into the strategic direction of the organization. Successful achievement of a sustainable business plan also requires identification of barriers to implementation and development of strategies to overcome such barriers. In addition, to measure the success of sustainable business practices, organizations must continually monitor the progress and communicate results of their sustainable plan efforts. A review of the Riordan Manufacturing’s current business practices helped to illustrate the development and implementation of a successful sustainability plan. Riordan must concentrate on developing a plan to address unsustainable practices such as the release of harmful emissions, improper disposal of off-spec raw materials, and the release of harmful solvent cleaners into the biosphere. To implement these strategies and secure the improvement of Riordan’s sustainability, the organization must anticipate financial, social, ethical, technical, and practical barriers to these plans. Understanding the barriers helps the organization prepare an action plan to overcome these obstacles and ensure the successful implementation of its plans. The keys to avoiding impediments from financial, social, ethical, and technical barriers are communication and commitment. Communication is vital to the implementation of a successful sustainability plan. Riordan Manufacturing must institute a comprehensive communication plan to address the concerns of affected stakeholders. In addition, the…
Environmental sustainability has become a hot topic in the last couple of decades because of global warming and other weather related changes. In today’s business world, environmental sustainability is an essential part of corporate social responsibility (CSR); therefore, very important to stockholders, owners, as well as to the public in general. Everybody wants to know how businesses are run and how their operations affect their communities for generations to come.…
According to Coblentz (2002), organizational sustainability is not a static process, rather, progresses through time. A journey involves many…
Sustainability to me in the business world means that an organization operates environmentally responsible and safe. The different methods utilized and products produced must have no harmful effects on the environment due to their existence. It is imperative for all businesses to be sustainable and find ways to incorporate it in order to be able to succeed in today’s business environment. This process has become part of the new and changing culture and different competition method. Yes a green company does impact my choice when I purchase my cleaning products from the local grocery store. I pay the extra money, but at the same time I know I am doing my part by taking care of the environment.…
The new SMO approach employs the concepts that; They do not fear change, they embrace it, they value people, both employed and served, they actively support social well being, they consider the communities in which they operate equal to the profits and bottom lines they seek to achieve. The SMO concepts of “Organizational effectiveness” and the four core issues to “The Way Organizations Are Managed” are introduced in this section, and are the key concepts discussed throughout the rest of the book. Organizational effectiveness states sustainable effectiveness should be achieved in three areas: people, planet, and profit, also known as the “triple-bottom line.” The performance should be evaluated using two questions. “Does the organization generate sustainable outcomes and act responsibly toward all stakeholders?” and “Can the organization sustain effectiveness?” The four core issues of the way organizations are managed must fit business model and be sustainably effective. The core issues are used to section the remainder of the book and are as follows: “the way value is created,” “the way work is organized,” “the way people are…
Sustainable development is defined as the one that has the ability to deliver the requirements or needs of the business entity without affecting the potential of the next generation to be in position to respond to their own needs. Sustainability and the…
Based on author¡¦s first-hand experience, some world well-known companies including Nike, Wal-mart, Intel, and Shell, international government agencies and non-governmental organizations are taken as examples to support his point of view and be a sample for later generations to respond challenges. Because of some misreading or failure implementation, previous experiences give corporations a lesson and force them to embrace key elements of the sustainability…
Business sustainability is a business approach have policies of environmental and human rights which means the business creates long-term shareholder value from no negative influence opportunities and managing risks on global or local society, environment, community and economy [3]. Smukowski [2] claimed that the concept of business sustainability is a prior plan of the long-term viability and optimizing resource needs, reducing environmental, energy or social impacts which will not damage the profitability of business. It can be summary from above that sustainable business means the enterprise consider not only financial factors, but also more comprehensive concern the impact of environmental and resource efficiency.…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most: on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry. The abuse that animals have to go through is heartbreaking, sickening and cruel. More than 16 billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S.( Marcus, 16) Farmers cut off baby chickens beaks so that when they are placed into their tiny cages, they wont peck the other chicks that they have to share their cage with. Chickens on large farms don 't even have enough room to stretch their wings, and hen 's cages are built so that every egg they lay rolls away from them, and onto a conveyor belt to be collected and sold. When the hens cannot produce anymore eggs, the farmer first stops feeding them. Farmers have discovered that starving the hens makes them produce more eggs for a little while. Then, when the hens finally can 't produce any more eggs, they are driven to a slaughterhouse and are killed for meat. On meat farms, chickens are given hormones so that they grow faster and bigger, until they grow so large that they can barely stand. Hens that are raised naturally can live up to 20 years, but on large egg farms they only live up to 2…
Meeting the needs of a business and its stakeholders, while at the same time managing it’s effects on society and the environment are core to business sustainability (Pojasek 2007). The culture we live in thrives off of new and improved ways of living. Finding the most sustainable option, in every case, allows organisations and their customers to grow. This generation will not stand for ignorance and insensible approaches to sustainability in the corporate world. Large businesses must be aware that the…
'The development by the organization of the human capabilities and skills that enable more consistent compliance, the implementation of eco-efficiency measures and forward planning for sustainability. In other words, we argue that the concepts of human and ecological sustainability need to be merged.'…
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Sustainability is a word that has become quite common in today’s business and political world. It is defined as “able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed, involving methods that do not completely use up or destroy natural resources or able to last or continue for a long time.” (Merriam-Webster on line dictionary, 2015) Where in business it is often confused or aligned with the term Lean. Lean sees waste as non-value added to the customer; green sees waste as extraction and consequential disposal of resources at rates or in forms beyond that which nature can absorb.…
The purpose of this report is to examine sustainability from the world’s perspective and to draw the attention of business managers the importance of sustainability to its business and its influence on organisational behaviour. Sustainability is universally defined as the ‘development that meets the needs of the present without…