Sustainability

Procedures
CASE OF GROWN CONSULTANTS
Summary of Sustainability Benefits

 Grow Consultant is aiming to develop a comprehensive sustainability policies

procedures for the organization .
 The company has to change its old operations to enhance the reduction in
energy usage, ensure more safe practices for environment as well employees.
 It will reduce the overhead cost in terms of energy bills(Hoolohan et al.,
2021).
 New policy will ensure that Grow Consultant aligns with sustainable practices.
 It will add to the competitive advantage and add credibility to leadership
training.
Sustainability Procedures

 Develop policy and procedure which will establish sustainability

practice.
 Company has to change its old lighting system and ensure its
expansion.
 The vehicles which are 5 years old needs to be replaced(Kojio, 2020).
 Company has to switched to eco-friendly cleaning service.
 It has to ensure that new catering service with disposable and eco-
friendly cutlery are supplied.
Rationale for development

 The new policies and procedures were essential to enhance the

operations of Grow Consultancy.
 The new policies were needed as the company did not have a
working environmentally sustainable practices which would
frame Grow Consultancy as eco-friendly workplace(Islam et al.,
2020).
 Besides, new competitive compliances much depends on how
the company practices sustainable operations.
 The leadership training can be brought under question by the
clients if they find lacking sustainable operations.
Outcome of the Policies and Procedures

 The new policies undertaken will bring in effective change in the

organization.
 It will include reduction in cost of energy.
 The amount of carbon footprint will be reduced through use of new and
modern vehicles with eco-friendly technology(Meer et al., 2018).
 The eco-friendly cleaning vendor will prevent use of harmful chemicals.
 It will contribute to health and well being of the people.
 Finding new vendors will introduce organic plates and glasses which are bio-
degradable.
Action Plan
Planned Sustainability roles and
responsibilities
 The management has to take charge of transforming the power
consumption, catering vendors and cleaning vendors to ensure eco-
friendly practices.
 The Consultants has to take initiative in preventing use of old cars
which adds to the greenhouse gases more(Yalina & Rozas, 2020).
 The employees and stakeholders has to be compliant with the
policies and procedure which will promote sustainable practice in the
organization.
 All the internal and external stakeholder collaboration is needed to
ensure that each individual is responsible in their action and comply
with the policies and procedures.
References

 Hoolohan, C., McLachlan, C., Jones, C., Larkin, A., Birch, C., Mander, S., & Broderick, J. (2021).
Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace
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 Islam, M. A., Hunt, A., Jantan, A. H., Hashim, H., & Chong, C. W. (2020). Exploring challenges and
solutions in applying green human resource management practices for the sustainable workplace
in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. Business Strategy and Development, 3(3).
https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.99
 Kojio, R. (2020). Sustainable Workplace in Kyoto - “Kyo-sei” in Society 5.0. IOP Conference Series:
Earth and Environmental Science, 588(5). https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/588/5/052010
 Meer, D. Van Der, Mouli, G. R. C., Mouli, G. M. E., Elizondo, L. R., & Bauer, P. (2018). Energy
Management System with PV Power Forecast to Optimally Charge EVs at the Workplace. IEEE
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 Yalina, N., & Rozas, I. S. (2020). Digital workplace: Digital transformation for environmental
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