Case Study on Sustainability

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SUSTAINABILITY: CASE STUDY
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Discussion.................................................................................................................. 2
Overview of the company....................................................................................... 2
Strategic Management actions taken up.................................................................3
People Management Issues..................................................................................... 7
Factors to consider building change capacity.......................................................12
Recommendations.................................................................................................... 13
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 14

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Abstract: Change management is an integral part of any organization. However, change
management concept is debatable because according to certain researches carried out in the field
of management, organizational changes are often resisted by the employees due to factors such
as poor execution and lack of trust on job status and security. However, since change is
inevitable, every business has to ensure itself to be updated according to the latest trends in
industries and market. The paper tries to understand the reasons behind resistance to change in
organizations and how to cope with it systematically and efficiently.
Introduction
The particular paper is a management report of the case study of SAR Health Services.
The case study is based upon the company’s initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint by a third
by the year 2022. The respective company follows a plethora of sustainability practices to ensure
that they work in an eco friendly manner. However, they might be facing certain issues in
organizational culture that might enable them to think how they are going to carry out their
strategic operations to ensure sustainability is maintained.
Discussion
Overview of the company
The company named SAR Health Services is a part of Multinational Corporation based in
Switzerland. The company builds and supplies sophisticated and premium diagnostic equipment
across Europe and have recently entered new marks in Asia. SARHS has a relationship with its
customers that are based on high trust, high quality products and premium 24/7 service in
Europe. The company employs more than 3000 staff that consists of technicians, production,
office staff, managers and drivers. The specialty of the company is that it puts particular attention

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on environmental education through staff training and induction. The new staff of the company
receives a half day session on sustainability. Apart from multi departmental meetings based on
ecological practices within the company, the organization also runs an “internship” regarding
green initiatives. The company has been recognized for three consecutive years. The company
has recently shifted from a functional to a matrix organizational structure, which has made the
organizational dynamics complicated and complex instead of making it gullible and simple.
However, with the increasing budget for the production of premium and sophisticated health
equipments, the company has planned to consolidate the production site A and has planned to
redesign the production site B in a model of “open plan” office that is expected to reduce the
energy costs. However, the company also has a greater strategic business objective, which is
reduction of carbon footprint by third by the year 2022 along with certain green initiatives to
reduce and save cost.
Strategic Management actions taken up
In the area of management, “strategic management” involves the formulation and
implementation of major goals and initiatives taken by the uppermost management personnel of
an organization. Strategic management is based on consideration of resources and also a
thorough assessment of the internal and external environment in which the organization operates.
Strategic management gives an overall direction to an enterprise and involves specification of
organization’s objectives, policies and plans so that they might achieve the objectives, and then,
allocating resources to implement the plans. Strategic management is an integral part of any
business and needs to be practiced perpetually so that the organizations might increase their
productivity and profitability. The company SAR Health Services has taken up certain strategic
management practices that would ensure that their strategic goal, which is reduction of carbon