Environmental Responsibility: The Role of Business Leaders Report

This report delves into the crucial role of business leaders in environmental protection, emphasizing their responsibility to safeguard the environment and promote sustainability. It explores the importance of assessing the external environment, setting priorities, and communicating environmental policies to employees through various methods like meetings, workshops, and practical training. The report highlights key environmental policies, such as those enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, and suggests strategies for employee engagement. It concludes that business leaders are key drivers in balancing organizational activities with environmental sustainability, and recommends initiatives to ensure compliance and foster a culture of environmental responsibility. The report also references various scholarly articles that support the discussed points.

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Introduction
We all have the responsibility to protect the environment at some or the other stage. Under
the environment responsibility of the Corporates, it is expected from the business leader to protect
the environment. Apart from focusing on the business activities it is the duty of the leader to take
care of the environment as the business leaders makes use of the resources of the society and in
return it becomes a by default duty to take care of the business environment. This aspect is quire
debatable since the past few decades and now it has become the hot matter of the business.
Governments of all over the world are now aligned together to maintain the sustainability in the
environment, for the conservation of the business environment. This report will discuss in detail
about the role of the business leaders in protecting the environment and the importance of such role
is necessary to communicate to the employees (Grayson & Hodges, 2017).
Question 1
The business leaders can grow their business strategically once they start to protect the
environment as the investors as well as the society associated with the business are also required to
respond to the environment (Guerrero, 2017). The role of the business leader is to assess the external
environment carefully by scrutinizing and scanning the environment in detail. Since the
environmental challenges appear to be the challenging and the spatial, it is the duty of the leaders to
scan the environment carefully to diagnose any threat prevailing (Grayson & Hodges, 2017).
The business leaders must set the clear priorities so that they can understand the needs of the
company. Uncertainty is the major challenge for the leaders especially in the case of the environment
as the fluctuations are of high level and there should be the proper connection between the leadership
and the actions to get the better results (Siyech, 2017).

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The importance of such role is such that it is not confined to just one person that is the
business leader rather the responsibility also lies in the hands of the employees to keep the
environment safe and healthy. This awareness can be created amongst the employees through various
methods such as weekly meetings on the sustainability of the environment (Gruber, et al 2017).
Further the workshops or the camps can be organized to promote more awareness. In fact the
practical training can be given in the workshops so that the employees can feel the real life
experience.
The importance can also be communicated by involving them while discussing the important issues
regarding the environment so that their ideas can also be merged to make them more interested by
themselves.
Question 2
There are different and a wide range of the environmental policies that are required to be fulfilled by
the business people. It depends on the organization, which environmental policies are required to be
complied by the organization. The different examples of the environment policies of the United
States are such as Environmental protection Agency for the purpose of regulating of the water as
well as the air pollution. The limits of the greenhouse emission have been suggested to the business
leaders as well as the modifications of to the United States energy policy have been undertaken
(Pettenger, 2017). These plans and the policies are very vital for the future sustainability and its
existence is required to be made aware to the employees as they would understand the real means of
it. There are several agencies in the United States which are to be complied by the business leaders
of the organisations. Some of the examples are provided in the table.
Particulars Environmental responsibilities
Environmental Protection Agency Air and water pollution, solid waste
Nuclear Regulatory Commission License and regulate the nuclear power.

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Department of the transportation Aircraft noise, mass transit, oil Pollution
Department of Energy Energy policy coordination, allocation of the
petroleum
The employees must be taught about all these policies with the help of the regular
meetings, hoardings, notice board or hoardings. The employees must be given practical experience
by letting them take an initiative to take care of the environment of the organization. In this process
the main focus of the business leaders must be to synchronize and make an alignment between the
thoughts of the employees and the needs of the organization with respect to the environment
(Olaleye, 2018). It is important to take of the environment, a place from where the resources have
been taken into consideration. The business leaders are experienced and they can share their stories
or the stories of the other fellow business leaders on how effective it has been, after following the
corporate governance and the environmental sustainability. The research and the development
committee also helps the organization in determining about the external factors which ultimately
provides the information to the employees (Lamm, Tosti-Kharas & King, 2015).
Conclusion
From the overall analysis it can be concluded that the environment is the most crucial stage for the
business leaders and how well they can make a proper balance between the activities of the
organization and the pedal of the environment sustainability. The hot topic has been discussed in
detail and finally it is recommended to the leaders to keep a check on the operations regarding the
environment and whether polices are communicated to the employees or not. Further the leaders can
take the initiatives determined above shall create other parameters as well that can be used to deal
with the environment (Wheelen, Hunger, Hoffman & Bamford, 2017). Henceforth, for every
organization the business leaders acts as the key drivers to determine the minute details of the
organization and to put it forwards for the growth and the prosperity.

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References
Grayson, D., & Hodges, A. (2017). Corporate social opportunity!: Seven steps to make corporate
social responsibility work for your business. Routledge.
Gruber, B., Günay, C., Rizvan, A., El Jamea, M., Komendantova, N., & Zejli, D. (2017). Green
Modernization–The political, social and societal setting of Morocco’s solar energy policies.
Guerrero, T. J. (2017). Youth in Transition: Housing, employment, social policies and families in
France and Spain. Routledge.
Lamm, E., Tosti-Kharas, J., & King, C. E. (2015). Empowering employee sustainability: Perceived
organizational support toward the environment. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), 207-220.
Olaleye, J. A. (2018). Impact of international trade on natural environement. The Business &
Management Review, 9(4), 11-16.
Pettenger, M. E. (2017). Framing Global Climate Security. In Global Insecurity (pp. 119-137).
Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Siyech, M. S. (2017). Exploring the Contribution of Islam towards Global Governance Locating
Ethics within the Discourse of Policy. AEGIS: Journal of International Relations, 2(1).
Wheelen, T. L., Hunger, J. D., Hoffman, A. N., & Bamford, C. E. (2017). Strategic management and
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