BSBSUS511 Develop Workplace Policies and Procedures for Sustainability

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Assessment – BSBSUS511:Develop workplace policies and procedures for sustainability

Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer/assessor for marking. This forms part of your assessment for BSBSUS511:Develop workplace policies and procedures for sustainability.

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Declaration

I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for me by another person. I also understand the assessment instructions and requirements and consent to being assessed.

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Date: ____________________________________________________________

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Observation/Demonstration

Throughout this unit, you may be expected to show your competency of the elements through observations or demonstrations. Your trainer/assessor will have a list of demonstrations you must complete or tasks to be observed. The observations and demonstrations will be completed as well as the activities found in this workbook.

Observation and evidence checklists have been included for all performance criteria in the Assessor Workbook, but the assessor only needs to record evidence in this document if they deem it necessary to judge competency for that particular activity.

An explanation of observations and demonstrations:

Observation is on-the-job

The observation will usually require:

Performing a work-based skill or task
Interaction with colleagues and/or customers.

Demonstration is off-the-job

A demonstration will require:

Performing a skill or task that is asked of you
Undertaking a simulation exercise.

Your trainer/assessor will inform you of which one of the above they would like you to do. The observation/demonstration will cover one of the unit’s elements.

The observation/demonstration will take place either in the workplace or the training environment, depending on the task to be undertaken and whether it is an observation or demonstration. Your trainer/assessor will ensure you are provided with the correct equipment and/or materials to complete the task. They will also inform you of how long you have to complete the task.

You should be able to demonstrate the skills, knowledge and performance criteria required for competency in this unit, as seen in the Learner Guide.

Activities

Complete the following activities individually or in a group (as applicable to the specific activity and the assessment environment).

Activity1A

Estimated Time

30 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to establish scope and objectives of workplace sustainability policies.

This activity does not require observation.

Explain what action you could take to establish the scope and objectives of sustainability policies in the workplace.

Write your answer in no more than 100 words.

Sustainability is the competence to justifiably happen the energetic human desires of the existing deprived of cooperating the capacity of upcoming generations to encounter their requirements by preservative and defensive the zone’s environments and ordinary possessions.

The action or steps that takings to instrument a workplace sustainability procedure:

1. Comprehend sustainability and distinguish what it resources to the corporation.

2. Established the goals and obligations.

3. Participate with the shareholders endlessly.

4. Begin the organization and procedures.

5. Interconnect the movements, pathway the development, and encounter the opportunities (Sala, et al.,2015).

Activity 1B

Estimated Time

15 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to gather information for the development of sustainability policies.

This activity does not require observation.

1. List two internal and two external sources of information.

2. List four methods of gathering information.

1. The two internal sources of information such as corporation conferences, and administrators are the foundations for the growth of the sustainability policies.

The external sources of information such as Manufacturing connotations, and faith-constructed organizations are the foundations for the expansion of the sustainability policies (Damanpour, et al.,2018).

2. The four methods of gathering information such as Philosophy, Atmosphere, Civilisation, and low cost are the fragment of the growth of the sustainability strategies or policies.

Activity 1C

Estimated Time

60 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to analyze information and consultation insights.

This activity does not require observation.

Explain what method you could use to analyze the information you have gathered. Write your answer in no more than 150 words.

The methods that use to analyze information that you have gathered:

1. Reviews – Appropriate inexpression at your topmost review of the queries, regulate the example extent, usage of the irritable tabularization to strainer the consequences, and attract the assumptions.

2. Operational tracking – Itsassistancesthe facilities such as transporting the additional modified perusing involvement.

3. Transactional facts stalking – It delivers an instrument to pathway the opinion of the beginning of the operation by connecting a preliminary operator mission with the extra responsibilities, that have remained formed from it.

4. community media nursing – It includes the tracking or following of an operational variety of references and the succeeding of them (Tuominen, et al.,2014).

5. Assembling contribution and recordkeeping of the data – A contribution permits for the recurrent instructions, and for expenditures to be feast concluded the period of suppleness in what way you retail the goods or services.

The Recordkeeping of the information denotes the material and the permitsentreated by the consumers throughout the procedure or record-keeping in the direction to undeveloped an interchange explanation with the establishment of the corporation.

Activity 1D

Estimated Time	60 Minutes
Objective	To provide you with an opportunity to develop and document sustainability policies according to organizational processes.
Equipment needed	Access to a computer.
	This activity does not require observation. Refer to Case Study B – Developing sustainability policies Develop a sustainability policy that identifies and documents five ways the business in the case study could improve its environmental impact. Your report should be typed on a computer and follow the organizational processes as detailed in the case study. Report Introduction –In the quick explanation, the conducts that for the insignificant corporate to advance their environmental impact such as usage of maintainable goods, deliver to the community transportation traveler profits, proposal them inaccessible exertion, usage of supportablepacking, and variety liveliness well-organized advancements. Purpose – The purpose of the advance the strategies conservational impact is to influence one or together of individuals extents, thusselecting of discourse some of the ecosphere furthermost demanding difficulties. It drops the surplus, diminishing the feasting and defending and preserving the environment and ordinary environments. It intends to confirm the atmosphere is non-violent, hygienic, and maintainable. The foremost determination of the sustainability strategies is that it permits the entities to encounter their existing requirements and also delivers on the desires of the upcoming compeers. Policy – The sustainability policy pursues to confirm that expansion is assumed not individual in the accurate technique but extra outstandingly to guarantee that the accurate belongings are completed. The policies that advance the conservational impact such as: 1. Customary the resident productions goalmouths. 2. Inspire Electronics Automobiles. 3. Prohibited Surplus Nourishment. 4. Incentivize carbon agriculture. 5. Being shrewd about the nuclear-powered.

Activity 1E

Estimated Time	60 Minutes
Objective	To provide you with an opportunity to incorporate implementation and continuous improvement processes into sustainability policies.
Equipment needed	Ø The policy developed in Activity 1D Ø Access to a computer.
	This activity does not require observation. Refer to Case Study B – Developing sustainability policies Using the policy points you identified and documented in Activity 1D, add additional information that explains what action can be taken to implement them and how they will be monitored for continuous improvement. The Actions that can be taken to instrument the sustainability policy: 1. Progress the exact, quantifiablegoalmouths, and purposes. 2. Describe sustainability revenue for your detailedcapability. 3. Generate an accomplishmentstage for instrumentmodification. 4. Interconnect the strategy to all the operating and constructionoperators. 5. Accumulate the baseline information on the existingposition of your goals. 6. Contrivance of all the achievementstages. These activities are observed by Guarantee the plan or the strategy is vibrant, shaping the management assurance and appointment, accomplishing and regulating the variations, and building in strengthening for the unceasing development in the sustainability strategy.

Activity 2A

Estimated Time	30 Minutes
Objective	To provide you with an opportunity to present workplace sustainability policies and implementation processes to key stakeholders.
Equipment needed	The policy was completed in Activity 1E.
	This activity will require observation. This is a role-play activity to be conducted in a small group. Within the group, there must be the following roles: Ø An employee from the business who will be helping to implement the policy Ø A manager from the business who is responsible for signing off the policy. Present your completed document from Activity 1E to the group. Within your presentation, make sure you: Ø Use language and tone appropriate to the audience Ø Speak clearly Ø Remain professional throughout Ø Answer any questions.

Activity 2B

Estimated Time	30 Minutes
Objective	To provide you with an opportunity to identify and source resources required to implement sustainability policies.
Equipment needed	Ø Access to the internet Ø A printer.
	This activity does not require observation. Refer to Case Study A: Sustainability Policy for Question 1 1. Identify three resources that may be required to implement the sustainability policy detailed in the case study. 2. Using the internet, research sources for the resources you have identified in Question 1. Attach your findings to your workbook; these can be handwritten or printed off. 1. The Three resources that are mandatory to instrument the sustainability strategy for an organization such as LED light bulbs, surface aquatic possessions, and recycling of excess materials(Farla, et al.,2012). 2. The sources of the resources that are realized in the sustainability policy or the procedure: 1. The LED light bulbs sources are exploiting rectifying tubes that discharge the light when they are associated in the route. 2. The sources of the surface aquatic possessions are ponds, rivers, containers, and the bays. 3. The sources of recycling of the excess materials such as the Aluminium, plastic, steel cans, plastic washing cleaner bottles, and newspaper towels.

Activity 2C

Estimated Time

60 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to support the implementation of workplace sustainability policies.

This activity does not require observation.

Explain the methods you could use to support the implementation of sustainability policies.

Write your answer in no more than 150 words.

The methods that can custom to provision the application of the sustainability policies and procedures:

1. Firstly describe what sustainability revenue for the detailed capability.

2. The expansion of detailed capability, assessable the goals and the purposes.

3. The Assortment of the baseline information on the existing position of the goals or the objectives.

4. Then Generate an accomplishment stage to instrument the variations.

5. The proposal is to be interconnected with all the supervisors and the construction users also.

6. After then contrivance and implement the all-accomplishment stages.

Activity 2D

Estimated Time

15 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to track continuous improvements in sustainability approaches using recording systems.

This activity does not require observation.

List three recording systems you might use to track continuous improvements.

The three-recording system that use to track continuous improvements are:

1. Recognise an opening or prospect for the modification, and generate a strategy to influence that goal and accomplish it.

2. The Instrument of that transformation on an important measure.

3. Congregation of the evidence after respectively innovative modification, and investigation of its efficiency (Bernhardt, et al.,2017)

Activity 3A

Estimated Time

90 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to document outcomes and provide feedback to key personnel and stakeholders.

Question 2 of this activity will require observation.

Refer to Case Study C: Documenting outcomes – for Question 1.

1. Using the information detailed in the case study, prepare a short report on the outcomes of the sustainability policies.

Make sure your policy includes:

Ø Initial objectives

Ø The policy principles

Ø What action has been taken

Ø What the outcomes are.

2. This is a role-play activity to be conducted in a small group.

Within the group, there must be the following roles:

Ø Employees from the business who will be helping to implement the policy

Ø A manager from the business is responsible for signing off the policy.

Using the information in the report you have written in Question 1, provide the feedback to the small group of key personnel and stakeholders.

When giving this feedback, make sure that you:

Ø Match the level of formality to the audience

Ø Speak clearly and professionally

Ø Acknowledge all input.

1. Report

Initial Objectives – The Met is tech industrialized and also executed its sustainability policies and approaches, The complete purposes are to develop additional ecologically approachable in their applies and procurements within the occupational.

The principles of the policy – The numerous philosophies that are deliberated in the organization such as:

1. Decrease the aquatic feasting

2. Decrease the liveliness usage

3. Diminish the redundant traveling

4. acquiring maintainable

These principles are the comprised in it, so now we consume to be taken action of that principles and then find the outcomes.

The Action has been taken –

1. Various actions have been taken for finding the outcomes as to decrease the aquatic ingesting, the achievement has been occupied that immovable the leaks, innovative knicks are fixed.

2. To decrease the vigor usage, all the electric apparatus is twisted off wherever conceivable, and little energy tubers are used.

3. To decrease the redundant itinerant, the conference agenda has been condensed, and connected conferences are presented as well.

4. The acquisition of a sustainable and welcoming atmosphere, scrubbing the goods, and recycling the paper.

Outcomes of those principles and the actions –

1. To decrease aquatic feasting the outcome, the complete decrease is 20 %

2. To decrease the vigor usage, the overall discount is 30 %

3. To decrease the redundant drifting the consequence is that one conference in a calendar month has been established, and training has given a connected assemblies program.

4. The acquisition of the maintainable, the consequence is that all the goods are substituted as well, and transformed the providers.

2. Roleplay

HR manager –Good morning

Employee – Hello, Today I want to discuss how to implement the policy, and who will be helping to implement it?

HR manager – To instrument the policy to recognize the requirements for an approach, acquire the shareholder sustenance, and interconnect with the additional or other workforces.

Employee – Okay. So, we have to contrivance the program for an association. But who will be helping to implement that policy?

HR manager – The executing association is accountable and all the administrators will help you to instrument the policy.

Employee – Okay. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Activity 3B

Estimated Time

60 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify trends requiring remedial action to promote continuous improvement of performance.

This activity does not require observation

1. List three types of information that you might use to identify trends.

2. Explain what remedial action might include. You should write your answer in no more than 150 words.

1. The three types of information that might be used in recognizing the trends such as quick, transitional, and extensive period.

2. The remedial actions are an achievement occupied to distress a longstanding rebuilding of conservational superiority. The remedial actions are encompassed in the movements:

1. select or indicate a slight untroublesome development.

2. Continuously Enquire to the consumers for the feedback response.

3. Stay Exposed and approachable to the criticism.

4. To deportment a self-valuation.

5. Always effort or exertion as a team or an assembly (Yao, et al.,2014)

Activity 3C

Estimated Time

30 Minutes

Objective

To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to modify sustainability policies to incorporate improvements.

This activity does not require observation.

Briefly explain what information you would need to include when modifying sustainability policies to include improvements.

Write your answer in no more than 100 words.

When informing the sustainability strategies, the data that required to include enhancements such as:

1. Enhance a green segment to your circular, participating in the sustainability instructions in your infrastructure’s proposal can assist stimulus and strengthen green performance.

2. The Conversation about the sustainability goals and the purposes.

3. The transmission and share of the sustainability accomplishments.

4. The development of the signage.

5. Also congregation the reprocessinghappening.

A sustainability policy might be demarcation your assurance to perform and idealscalculated to encourageecologicallyaccountableprocesses.

Summative Assessments

The summative assessments are the major activities designed to assess your skills, knowledge, and performance, as required to show competency in this unit. These activities should be completed after finishing the Learner Guide. You should complete these as stated below and as instructed by your trainer/assessor.

Skills, knowledge, and performance may be termed as:

Skills – skill requirements, required skills, essential skills, foundation skills
Knowledge – knowledge requirements, required knowledge, essential knowledge, knowledge evidence
Performance – evidence requirements, critical aspects of assessment,performance evidence.

Section A: Skills Activity

The Skills Activity is designed to be a series of demonstrative tasks that should be assessed by observation (by the assessor or third party, depending on the circumstances). In some cases, skills will be demonstrated in writing, where the criteria fit.

It will demonstrate all of the skills required for this unit of competency – your assessor will provide further instructions to you, if necessary.

Section B: Knowledge Activity (Q & A)

The Knowledge Activity is designed to be a verbal questionnaire where the assessor asks you a series of questions to confirm your competency for all of the required knowledge in the unit of competency.

Section C: Performance Activity

The Performance Activity is designed to be a practical activity performed either in the workplace or in a simulated environment. You should demonstrate the required practical tasks for the unit of competency and be observed by the assessor and/or the third party, as applicable to the situation. If the third party is required to observe you, you will need to make the required arrangements with them.

If necessary for the activities, you should attach completed written answers, portfolios, or any evidence of competency to this workbook.

Section A: Skills Activity

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required skills for this unit.

This activity will enable you to demonstrate the following skills:

Numeracy
interprets and uses mathematical equations to calculate numerical information relating to time durations and costs
Oral communication
presents information and seeks advice using language appropriate to audience
participates in discussions using listening and questioning to elicit the views of others and to clarify or confirm understanding
Reading
identifies, analyses and evaluates complex textual information to determine legislative and regulatory requirements, trends and outcomes
Writing
researches, plans and prepares documentation using format and language appropriate to context, organisational requirements and audience
Initiative and enterprise
develops, monitors and modifies organisational policies and procedures according to legislative requirements and organisation goals
Teamwork
selects and uses appropriate conventions and protocols when communicating with internal and external stakeholders to seek or share information
plays a lead role in consulting and negotiating positive outcomes with a range of stakeholders
Planning and organising
plans, organises and implements work activities of self and others that ensure compliance with organisational policies and procedures, and legislative requirements
sequences and schedules complex activities, monitors implementation, and manages relevant communication
uses systematic, analytical processes in relatively complex, situations, setting goals, gathering relevant information, and identifying and evaluating options against agreed criteria
evaluates outcomes of decisions to identify opportunities for improvement

Answer the activity in as much detail as possible.

Equipment needed:

Access to the internet
Small group of peers for a role-play activity.

Identify and document one area within your workplace that you can develop a sustainability policy for. If you are not in a workplace you can refer to one you are familiar with or your assessor will provide you with an example workplace.

The one document area that is need to be done in the workplace that can help the company to develop the sustainability policy is the working policy document of the organization is helping the company to assess the workplace and develop the suitability policy (Game, et al., 2018).

Using the internet, research any relevant laws, legislation, codes of conduct or regulatory requirements for the area you have chosen. Make sure you take notes and attach them to your workbook.

The relevant laws and the regulations also, the legislation, and the code of conduct that is used in the regulatory requirements will be used in the finance section of the organization to develop the sustainability policy of the organization. The companies act 2006 will be used in this policy (Game, et al., 2018).

This is a role-play activity to be conducted as part of a small group of peers. For this activity, you will discuss the area you have chosen in Question 1 and the findings from your research and get their input on how you can lessen the environmental impact. The roles to include are:

Internal stakeholder – an employee from the business
External stakeholder – a customer.

Roleplay

Internal stakeholder – according to the current situation of the organization this is compulsory to develop a sustainability policy for the organization’s better development.

External stakeholder- yes sir as the organization needs a better policy they have to make sure to handle the situation in a better way for the organization.

Internal stakeholder – the company development is the important thing for the organization better results and expand the business in the market for more opportunities.

External stakeholder- as the current working policy of the organization is not that effective and for this, they have to make sure to handle this for the better development of the organization.

Using the information you have gathered in questions 1 to 3, develop a sustainability policy.

Within this policy, you should include:

The main principles
The actions to be taken to achieve the principles
Implementation
How it will be monitored
Any costs and timeframes.

The main principles

Economic principles and social principles will be applied in this.

The actions to be taken to achieve the principles

They have to examine the working policy and the position of the organization to improve the actions to reach the level of the principles.

Implementation

During the implementation of the principles in the organization, they have to make sure to deal with the company working policy and make sure to reach the level of the development of the organization for a better result (Lăzăroiu, et al., 2020).

How it will be monitored

This will monitor from the starting point of the company development as they have to make sure to handle the things and they have to take the help of the communication process in the organization to get a better result.

Any cost and timeframes

There will cost a charge to develop and implement the suitability policy in the organization around $45.00 and it will take the first 6 weeks of the organization.

Evaluate the policy and identify and document any areas for improvement.

The policy will be and the identify the document and the areas in which it needs to be done the improvement needs to be done in the financial department and the accounting department of the organization. Also, the policy will be identified in the terms of the company’s working policy (Lăzăroiu, et al., 2020).

Section B: Knowledge Activity (Q & A)

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required knowledge for this unit.

The answers to the following questions will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge of:

Australian and international standards relating to corporate sustainability
Environmental and sustainability legislation, regulations and codes of practice applicable to organisation
Internal and external sources of information and their use in planning and developing organisational sustainability policies and procedures
Elements required for the development of organisational sustainability policies and processes including:
agreed outcomes of the policy and procedures
policy timeframes and costs
performance indicators
activities to be undertaken
assigned responsibilities
record keeping, review and improvement processes
common sustainability issues with organisational systems and procedures
Typical barriers to implementing policies and procedures in an organisation and possible strategies to address them.

Answer each question in as much detail as possible.

Briefly explain what international standards relate to corporate sustainability.

Max. 50 words.

International trade helps the organization reach the level of the company development of the organization. This will help the company to do better development in the corporate sustainability policy in the organization. This is the importance of international trade in the organization.

Explain the Australian government’s main piece of environmental legislation.

Max. 100 words.

Australian environment protection biodiversity conversation act 1999 is the central piece of the environmental legislation and it will help the company of Australia and provide the framework of the legal resources and the protect the environment of the company. This will help the company to handle the ecological communities of the company (Gottschamer, e al.,2016).

What environmental legislation applies to your state or territory?

The types of environmental legislation applicable to the state and the territories and there are:

Australian environment protection biodiversity conversation act 1999

List two types of internal sources of information.

The two types of the internal source of information are:

Working policy data

Financial data

List two types of external sources of information.

The two types of the external resource data are:

Marketing report

Stakeholder feedback

Briefly explain how using internal and external information helps to plan and develop sustainability policies and procedures.

Max. 75 words.

Internal and external resources of the organization help the company to get better deliveries and because of this, they have to make sure to handle the things in the organization also, with the help of the internal resources they will implement the working policy in the organization. Based on the external resources they will improve their marketing strategies in the organization to get a better result (Gottschamer, 2016).

What methods can you use to analyse information?

Max. 75 words.

The method that will be used to analyze the information of the organization is predictive data analysis will be used in this section because sustainability policy will be developed in the organization by doing prediction of the company result.

How might you determine the timeframes and costs of the policies?

Max. 75 words.

The determination of the timeframes and the cost of the policies are will be mentioned within 6 weeks of the policy development and it will cost around $45.00/-.

Explain what performance indicators you might use to track progress.

Max. 75 words.

The performance indicators that will be used to track the progress of the organization are the examination of the working report and the progress of the organization to get better results in the company.

List three things the implementation plan needs to establish.

The three things that are implemented in the plan and need to be established in the organization are:

Working policy

New organization management

Develop communication process

List two records a business might have to keep by law.

The two records that are business might have to keep by the law are the sales and the production record of the company (Howes, et al., 2017).

Briefly explain the most widely used continuous improvement model.

Max. 75 words.

A brief explanation of the two most widely used continuous improvement models of the organization are:

The development process of the company

Communication process development of the organization.

Explain the sustainability issues and barriers you might face.

Max. 75 words.

Explain the sustainability issue and the barriers that they might face is the communication gap and the supply also, the chain work process of the organization these are the two barriers which they might face in the organization and the development policy of the company in a sustainability manner.

Explain the action you could take to address any barriers to implementing policies and procedures.

Max. 75 words.

The action which is needed to be taken and any type of the barriers to implementing policies and the procedures of the organization are first they have to find out the lack point in the company work process and after that, they have to resolve the issue related to company work to make the things real in the organization (Howes, et al., 2017).

Section C: Performance Activity

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate the required performance elements for this unit.

This activity will enable you to demonstrate the followingperformanceevidence:

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

Develop and implement workplace policies and procedures for sustainability on at least one occasion, including:
implementing sustainability policy and procedures into wider organisational policies and procedures
consulting and communicating with relevant stakeholders to generate engagement with sustainability policy development, implementation and continuous improvement.

Answer the activity in as much detail as possible.

Identify an area of the workplace to develop a sustainability policy for. If you do not have a workplace, you can refer to one you are familiar with, or your assessor will provide you with an example workplace.

Within this task, you must:

Discuss the development of the policy with a group of peers to gain ideas and information
Include any relevant laws, legislation or codes of practice
Develop the principles and actions required to meet the objectives
Identify and source the resources required for implementation
Implement the policy
Develop and monitor continuous improvement methods
Identify any trends requiring remedial action.

Discuss the development of the policy with a group of peers to gain ideas and information-

The discussion will be done in the meeting room with the expert of the organization and stakeholders.

Include any relevant laws, legislation, or codes of practice-

The company act 2006 and 2013 are the relevant laws and the legislation in the organization.

Develop the principles and actions required to meet the objectives-

The economical principles and the social requirement development needs to the objectives.

Identify and source the resources required for implementation-

The internal and the external resources required for implementation.

Implement the policy-

Policy implementation is an important thing in the organization for better deliveries.

Develop and monitor continuous improvement methods-

Examination of the working policy and applying the predictive method in the company can reach a better level of the organization.

Identify any trends requiring remedial action-

They have to make the work process and the trend better in the company to get a better result in the organization’s development (Cohen, et al., 2015).

Write a short report documenting the outcomes of the sustainability policies. Write your answer in no more than 150 words.

Short report

The importance and the outcomes from the sustainability policy apply in the organization help the company to improve their working policy and the section of the working to get the better result in the organization. This also helps the company to get their reality and the result of the current working policy of the organization this is a better development required in the company to get the better result in the return of the company. This is an important of the outcomes that will become out of the suitability policy of the organization and this is the best way to improve the working policy of the organization development is the better outcome (Cohen, et al., 2015).

This is a role-play activity in which you will need to provide feedback on the outcomes you documented in Question 2 to key personnel and stakeholders. You should make sure that you use language appropriate to the audience and acknowledge all input.

The roles include:

An employee from the business
A manager from the business.

Roleplay

Employee- the importance of the sustainability policy is to improve the working environment of the company.

Manager – yes this is the important thing in the development of the organization and they will get a better result in the return of the company management.

Employees- they have to also, improve the communication process in the organization to get innovative ideas and reduce the conflicts between the team members and the other department of the organization.

Manager- this is the best way to apply the sustainability policy and use the outcomes from the feedback of the sustainability policy and the result of the working policy of the organization.

Case Study A – Sustainability Policy

At All Things Party we understand that businesses can have a negative impact on the environment, and we feel it is our duty to reduce our own impact where possible.

It is our policy to:

Reduce our use of energy
Reduce our water consumption
Recycle as much waste material as possible
Limit our use of paper by printing on both sides when we cannot avoid using paper, or using emails to send out correspondence
Avoid unnecessary travel
Encourage employees to car share or use alternative methods of transport into work
Purchase environmentally friendly products where possible.

Case Study B – Developing Sustainability Policies

H & J Accountancy and administration services are a medium sized, office based company that employ 24 members of staff across a few different departments in the offices. They have a large kitchen area and shower room facilities for staff members. They work between the hours of 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday and have another branch in a nearby city that they travel to twice a week for a meeting.

Their main business is providing accountancy and administration services to individuals, small businesses and some large companies. They use a lot of paper and ink for printers and photocopiers in order to provide prospective customers with quotes, and send out regular financial reports and other reports as requested. All of their reports follow a house style of font size 12, font style Calibri, centre alignment and arrow bullet points for lists. The majority of their work is computer based but they do keep a lot of hard copies of paperwork.

They would like to minimise the impact on sustainability of all office and transportation activities.

Case Study C – Documenting outcomes

Met Tech developed and implemented its sustainability policies four months ago, with their overall objective to become more environmentally friendly in their practices and purchases within the business. Overall, they are happy with the progress and will be continuously monitoring each area to ensure continuous improvement.

The data collected shows the outcomes of the changes.

Principle	Action	Outcome
Reduce water consumption	New taps, fixed leaks	20% reduction
Reduce energy usage	All electrical equipment turned off where possible Low energy bulbs Aircon turned up by one degree Staff reminded to turn off equipment	30% reduction
Reduce unnecessary travel	Meeting schedule reduced Online meetings introduced Car sharing encouraged	One meeting a month Training given on online meeting programs Car share initiative set up
Sustainable purchasing	Environmentally friendly cleaning products Recycled paper	All products replaced Suppliers changed

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