Auckland International Campus: AM808001 Sustainability Report Analysis

This report critically evaluates sustainability-related issues, opportunities, and problems within a client organization, incorporating applied and conceptual models of sustainability, including Māori values and beliefs. The report focuses on the core Maori values of Tikanga, Kawa, and Manaakitanga, examining how they can be integrated into business practices to achieve sustainability. The analysis includes the organization's key stakeholders and its existing supply chain, providing a comprehensive overview of the company's sustainability performance and potential areas for improvement. The report uses the example of Xero to illustrate these values and their impact on creating a sustainable work environment. The research aims to provide insights into how Maori values can guide youth work and balance life and work activities. The report also includes a reference list with academic sources supporting the analysis.

Maori Values
It is a moral value generated by the Maori people that are defined as the
set of culture, customs, and traditions, and the way in which the
community behaves. Here, the community is defined as the group of
people coming under the Maori group. These people believe only on the
positive activities and they are strictly against the negative actions that
could exploit the surrounding environment and the nation. Xero is an
organization that has achieved success over these years and it had only the
positive impact over the small software industries and the company had
attained the goal of satisfying both the customers and its clients. Through
the application of this sustainable principle, the company was able to be a
sustainable one (Adebanjo, Teh, & Ahmed, 2016)
Kawa
Kawa is the result obtained through the list of actions.
The result obtained must be only the positive one so
that the surrounding environment is not affected in any
way. Thus the principle generated by the Maori people
helps the organizations in achieving a sustainable work
environment (Joseph et al., 2018)
Maanakitanga is a group of people located in New Zealand who offers the best
hospitality services to the tourists who come to visit the tourist places located in New
Zealand. These people believe in the moral principle that human beings should help
each other in order to have a sustainable healthy societal environment. The same the
case applies in the great software organization in New Zealand, Xero. The employees
working in the organization are supposed to do only the right actions and work hard
to satisfy the customers and their needs. The customers visiting Xero will get their
queries easily resolved and the employees are happy to work in the environment that
offers them the work life balance. Therefore with the application of this moral
principal, Xero is able to maintain a sustainable work environment benefitting both
the employees and the customers (Kanatani & Yaghoubi, 2017).
Tikanga Manaakitanga
Reference List
Adebanjo, D., Teh, P. L., & Ahmed, P. K. (2016). The impact of external pressure and sustainable management practices on manufacturing performance and environmental outcomes. International
Journal of Operations & Production Management, 36(9), 995-1013.
Joseph, R., Rakena, M., Jones, M. T. K., Sterling, R., & Rakena, C. (2018). The Treaty, Tikanga Māori, Ecosystem-Based Management, Mainstream Law and Power Sharing for Environmental
Integrity in Aotearoa New Zealand–Possible Ways Forward.
Kanatani, M., & Yaghoubi, R. (2017). Determinants of corporate capital structure in New Zealand. AMR, 1.
Mead, H. M. (2016). Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition): Living By Maori Values. Huia publishers.
Maori values are defined as the ideas, resources, places, and things which are considered as valuable by the Maori
people. Maori are the group of people prevailing in New Zealand. These people are the indigenous Polynesian people
who have generated their own principles, cultures, and values that are applied both in their practical life as well as in
their workplace environment (Mead, 2016). Maori values can be termed as one of the significant tool that aims at
guiding youth work. In addition to that, these group of Maori values sums up to show how it can be properly
incorporate into the developmental works so that there is balance in life and work in daily activities. These values can
be termed as an instruments where the Maori people interpret, view as well as make sense of the world. This culture
and values are very much interesting as compared to other values. People should develop an understanding about
these values and ethics. There are several Maori values that had been described in detail and these are Tikanga, Kawa
and Maanakitanga.