Managing Sustainability: Individual Reflective Log

MANAGING
SUSTAINABILITY-
INDIVIDUAL
REFLECTIVE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFLECTIVE LOG........................................................................................................................1
Reflective Log 1..........................................................................................................................1
Reflective Log 2..........................................................................................................................2
Reflective Log 3..........................................................................................................................3
Reflective Log 4..........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability, in a business context, refers to a status of continuous existence of business
as well as human and natural resources. It is a highly necessary aspect to be included and
fostered by an individual and business organisation as part of their Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) (Knott and Scragg, 2016). Moreover, individual reflection by a person is
necessary to reflect upon the past experiences within a business setting of managing
sustainability. Hence, in this relation, the report below is based on personal reflective log upon
past group activity that has been associated with taking steps to ensure and enhance sustainability
within business. It covers several activities and experiences associated with the same effectively.
REFLECTIVE LOG
Reflective Log 1
 Activity:
The very first activity within the module that has been performed by me was to study
about Energy Use in corporate sector (Burns, Diamond-Vaught and Bauman, 2015). For this
purpose, I realised that it was necessary that appropriate information be gathered by me in
context of different forms of energies that could be used by organisation to ensure enhancement
of sustainability of environment. Hence, studying and information collection were important
tasks that were carried out by me in this activity.
 Overall Experience:
Throughout this activity, I was very much anxious in order to appropriately and
effectively learn about how best the energy could be generated, used and renewed so that the
business operates through being environmental friendly. In addition to this, my feelings for
environment got stronger when I realised that how industries waste so much energy by using
depleted sources and outdated methods to perform different activities. As for the positive side of
this activity, it was very much contributing in context of highlighting the methods that the
organisation could choose to ensure high energy saving and better productivity with techniques
such as solar energy.
 Issues:
However, the activity was very contributing, there were minor issues that were faced by
me in relation to gather information about energy use. For instance, I found it very complex to
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