Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility at BAE Systems

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of BAE Systems' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. It begins by outlining the company's sustainability program, emphasizing its lifecycle approach and integration of environmental considerations from raw materials to customer use. The report then explores the role of sustainability in BAE Systems' strategic plan, highlighting its impact on resource efficiency, waste reduction, and energy management. It also examines the social, environmental, and economic challenges and opportunities faced by the company, including issues related to product distribution, climate impact, and economic factors. The report further details the objectives and targets of BAE Systems' sustainability efforts, such as resource efficiency and product lifecycle conventions. Finally, it assesses the business value derived from these initiatives, including improved safety, supplier relations, and environmental impact mitigation. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of sustainability in the company's overall strategic framework.

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Table of Contents
BAE Systems...................................................................................................................................2
Sustainability program.....................................................................................................................2
Role of sustainability.......................................................................................................................2
Social, environmental, and economic challenges and opportunities...............................................3
Objectives and targets......................................................................................................................3
Business value.................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................6

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BAE systems
The BAE systems are advanced to protect the people and security at the national level
and keep the crucial information and infrastructure very secure. The new ways are effective to
provide a competitive edge within the air maritime, cyber domains, and land (Dresner, 2012).
The following discussion will cover the sustainability program, roles of the sustainability, social,
environment, and economic weaknesses with the opportunities, objectives, and targets of the
sustainability efforts, and business values with the sustainability efforts.
Sustainability program
The successful sustainability strategies requires to focus on the all point in the lifecycle
that includes the basic raw material, processes of manufacturing, the process of the customer's
conversion, distribution, and use of customers. The sustainability program of the BAE systems
founded within the life cycle thinking. This enables to consider the impact on the natural capital
across the many types of environmental effects like global warming aptitudes and increasing
energy demands as well as around product value chain. The life cycle approach is important to
identify the important steps in the products life cycle that offers the best opportunity for
improvement. The environmental impact changes are outside the operations of the BAE systems
process like the use phase to lighter the automotive materials and building the materials with
effective insulating properties. The lifecycle assessment is useful to determine the stages of the
product in which environmental benefits and problems occur and change can cause the burdens
to shift within the stages and environmental impact categories. The understanding of the
potential influences early in the processes of development allows improving the decision making
and develops the more sustainable portfolio of the product (Benn, Edwards, & Williams, 2014).
Role of sustainability
The sustainability has an effective role within the organization's strategic plan as it
reduces the effect on environment and improves the efficiency of the resources, products,
suppliers, and customers to make a good business sense. This generates the options to set and
meet the improvement targets for the energy, waste and additional work with the opportunities.

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Sustainability has the role to create the opportunities and drive the improvement within the
management of the resources and materials. The sustainability in the organizational strategic
plan improves the efficient air conditioning system for the assembly line of the F-35. The
sustainability of the organization is creating a significant impact on the strategic plan to address
the issues like use of material and solvent, energy, recycling, waste, air emissions, and
greenhouse gases. The dedicated teams within the business become capable to work within the
strategic operations. Business operations and product life cycles are the key consideration.
Energy security and cost are the main variables to run the significant business of manufacturing.
It became capable to operate the products within the field especially in the hazardous
environment (Bell, & Morse, 2012).
Social, environmental, and economic challenges and opportunities
 Social
The distribution of the products at the class level has created the challenges to promote premium
products as the majority of the public has the lower class. It has the opportunity to connect with
the target market and priorities with effective health standards.
 Environment
The present conditions of the weather impact the ability of the organization to manage
transportation and finished goods. This will affect the dates of delivery. It has the opportunity to
receive support from the government to manage the expensive cost of renewable energy.
 Economic
The rates of interest within the nation can affect to borrow and invest. The low GDP growth rate
will affect the organization to grow effectively. There is a high level of unemployment in the
nation present the huge supply of the jobs and demand as candidates will like to work on the low
wage and help the organization to lower the costs.
Objectives and targets
 Resources efficiency in action

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The business effectiveness measures the effectiveness of business which grow the prominence
and importance that known as the resource efficiency and maximize the raw material uses,
minimize the waste and reusing the byproducts. The business improvement specialists will work
with the local team to develop the plan of productivity through the action program. The resulting
improvement will be based on the lean principles of manufacturing and focus on the flow of
work, handling time, and cutting down the waste, and associated costs. The group organization
will comply with worldwide regulations and laws.
 Conventions in the product lifecycle
It will focus more on the technical innovation and improvements within the life cycle of the
product and manufacturing. The research and development department of the organization will
be undertaken by world-class engineers and scientists across the business. Many products of the
organization have long lifecycles and operated within the hostile environment for the many years
within the multitude of nations. It will focus to become more proactive to evolve within the
environmental regulations and drive by the emerging knowledge for the potential health impact
of the substances and materials. The organization has balanced the innovation with the
marketability and long-time sustainability which will have the potential and positive impact on
the environment and people (Cheng, Ioannou, & Serafeim, 2014).
Business value
For critical products like aircraft and land vehicles, the carbon emissions within the
lifecycle come from the use and not with the disposal or manufacturing (Aguinis, & Glavas,
2012). The organization's sustainability efforts have supported the organization to work with the
customers and understand the life carbon footprint of the product. It has enabled to provide the
appropriate environmental outputs that support to requirements of the customers. Business values
with innovative solutions have improved the safety and well-being. The supplier payment policy
refers that these should be paid according to the payment terms and conditions. The
organization's environmental sustainability maturity mix now provides the framework to support
the efforts and address all the impacts on the environment. It also helps the employees to adopt
the best sustainable practices. These all guide and contribute to the organization broadly with
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issues and solve them through recycling and optimizing the logistics (Kitzmueller, & Shimshack,
2012).
Conclusion
In the limelight of the discussion, it can be concluded that the sustainability program of
the organization is effective. Sustainability of the BAE system plays an important role in the
strategic plan. The organization faces social, environmental, and economic issues but there are
enough opportunities to compete. It has the objective and targets to meet sustainable goals.
Further discussion covers the business values which improved by the sustainability efforts.

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Dresner, S. (2012). The principles of sustainability. Routledge.
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