Climeworks: Building a Sustainable Organization - Roles and Dilemmas

This report examines Climeworks' efforts in building a sustainable organization, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of sustainable strategic managers, particularly Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher. It delves into the importance of balancing long-term and short-term goals, addressing economic and ethical dilemmas that arise in the process. The report highlights strategic management techniques, risk management, collaboration, and problem-solving within the context of Climeworks' mission to capture carbon dioxide. Furthermore, the report discusses the importance of ethical development and adapting different communication techniques to connect with customers. The report also discusses the importance of Climeworks' approach to innovation, risk management, and collaboration, emphasizing the company's commitment to environmental responsibility. The analysis includes practical applications and strategies for achieving sustainability, offering insights into Climeworks' business model and its potential impact on climate change.

Building a
Sustainable
Organisation

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Roles and Responsibilities of Sustainable Strategic Manager....................................................3
Balancing the Long and Short term Goals..................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Suitability is very important for any business it helps to avoidance of dilapidation of natural
resources in order to maintain the ecological balance. It refers to doing business activity without
putting any negative impact on environment, community. The important target of sustainable
businesses strategy is to create the positive affect on those areas which organization are not able
to anticipate the obligation, that alternate can happen, directing the problems such as
environment decline, difference and ethical injustice. In this report they critical measure the roles
and responsibility of Christoph Genald and Jan Wurzbacher as suitable plan of action director
(Dressler and Paunović, 2019). Along with it also discuss the concept of technique of plan of
action business organization management which company can use for solve the problem of
sustainability. It explains the economical and ethical quandary which strategical leader handle
the activity for maintain the long and short term goals.
MAIN BODY
Roles and Responsibilities of Sustainable Strategic Manager
Sustainable strategic management are involves observing, explicate, and apply the action
plan for the organisation. These scheme are economically competitive, and socially responsible
in balances with the cycle of nature. These factors are formed while considering factors of
sustainability in mind. Sustainability strategic management allows companies to have positive
impact on both the environment and on society by helping in addressing world's most important
problems. It allows companies to work efficiently and in effective manner to achieve the goals of
the organisation. SSM strategic portfolio allows companies to make a competitor benefit by
helping as an agent for ecological protection and societal changes. It may be seeming illogical
that spending more money on sustainable business practices can increase profitably of the
company but studies shows sustainable companies are also profitable. The sustainable mangers

are answerable to make alteration within the organisation to sort it more preserve. It is also
essential for Climeworks management to form plan of action which provide support the
organisation to bring down the stuff of CO2 (Karlusch, Sachsenhofer and Reinsberger, 2018).
Roles and responsibilities of Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzabacher as sustainable plan of
action managers are given below-
 Plan of action – Strategic evolution plans are very essential that company needs to
formulate as it is the process of researching and identifying various strategic options that
are available to the organisation and then selecting the most promising option and further
deciding in allocating the resources to achieve the organisation's goals. The managers are
responsible for making strategies and plans with the data and information available to
them and by studying about buyer’s behaviour the company cam plan to increase their
sales and profitability. As sustainable managers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher
are need to focus that it make effective strategic plan which helps to making must be
surroundings friendly. There are some uncertainty which arises in enterprise such as risks
that cannot be foreseen and measured viable and feasible and to tackle all these problems
both the mangers should make effective strategies to tackle any uncertainties in their
business (Marathe, Dutta and Kundu, 2020).
 Risk management- Risk management involves evaluating potential threats and
formulating plans to minimise those threats and problems. Strategic mangers help in
developing feasible scenarios for reducing any potential risks and develop risk that will
help senior management and leaders. Strategic managers try to create a environment
which reduces potential risks in the company. As a sustainable manager both the
managers should try to create a proper risk management strategy so that it can help them
to minimise their risks and do not provide any harm to the environment because emission
of CO2 practice is associated with higher risks. These strategies can also help the
managers in identifying opportunities that can exploit the risks and boost profitability of
their business. The director should want to examine whether the danger can be transfer,
recognized, decreased or get rid of (Muhmad and Muhamad, 2021)
 Examine issues- Some other essential part of strategic manager is to find out those
problem that arises in enterprise surroundings. The director formulate various plans and
strategies that further help the company during crisis period also. Both the mangers of

Climeworks find out the issue of globes large problems which is huge amount of carbon
dioxide and make a brave imagination to take away one per cent of global CO2
regression from the world condition by 2025 for this purpose they also develop a
technology which will help many businesses to achieve sustainable practices. To make a
sustainable enterprise, Climeworks also need to focuses on hiring the right candiates for
the right job and involve themselves in analysing data to form strategies that will help the
business to grow.
 Collaboration- It is a practice which help people to work together towards a set goal. It
is the responsibility of the strategic mangers to collaborate with their seniors and leaders
for setting the agenda and vision of the business. The managers collaborate with the
planning teams and clients to formulate a plan and find various ways to implement that
plan and work together to assess the success of the plan. Climeworks also better half with
Pentair Union engineering, a director in the process of CO2 to ensure purity standards
required for use in beverages. It is important for both the managers to collaborate fairly
with their partners so that they all have clarity about the plans and strategies which they
have to follow to achieve the goals (Oria,Wafula and Mumma, 2022).
 Problem solving- As a sustainable strategic manger it is their responsibility to overcome
any form of political, systematic barriers so that it enables creativity and change in
business growth. They are responsible for taking initiatives that will help them in
providing solutions to the existing problems and also make consciousness regarding
institution sustainability practices. Climeworks mangers need to build the team work to
create merchandising strategies to market the company's sustainability works. The
strategic managers Climeworks are working to reduce cost of production by expanding
their production and that will include buying materials more cheaply in bulk and
assembling units on more authorized lines which is similar to auto mobile industry.
Changes in designs also needed to reduce expensive maintenance costs.
 Ethical Development- Business ethics are the principles that tells us about how
employees behave in the organisation. It is the responsibility of the sustainable strategic
managers to develop a ethical culture in the organisation. They are also responsible for
continued growth, productivity, success and in maintaining a positive relation among
employees and clients. The mangers of Climeworks are responsible for maintaining

environmental laws and make sure that no one in the company should violate them. They
should also make sure about their employees’ health by ensuring that they are working in
eco-friendly environment and there should be fair treatment given to employees
irrespective of race, gender, nationality and differences.
There are many concepts and tools of strategic business management which helps the company
to solve the problem of suitability and they need to focus on this points which are given below:
 Use the sustainability as a unique selling point-If company need to fulfill their social
responsibility and follow the sustainability method, so they need to ensure that they
launch something unique in the market to attract the large number of audience and also
liable to doing sustainable products. Customer are start looking to buy something related
to the ethical value which suitable for food sectors. Brand company need to use the
sustainability method for differences the product and encourage the selling.
 Long- term planning- the manger need to assure that they make long- term plan which
helps the company to face the uncertain challenges The social barriers are in society
mostly focus on short- term key performance indicators of the company Along with
sustainable enterprise helps to support the all those which building complex with to
aspect at and blessing for long- term results.
 Communicate differently-company need to assure that they adapt different techniques
and tools to communicate of connect with their customers, so that they are liable to attract
the larger number of audience. (Rai, 2018).
Balancing the Long and Short term Goals.
There are various authority and responsibility in an organisation that lies in the hand of
the leader. The leaders play an integral role in an organisation which helps in achievement of
organisational goals and objectives. Leaders plays a major role in decision making process of an
organisation and they also help the organisation to enhance the productivity and performance of
its workforce. In order to achieve the organisational goals there are several dilemmas that are
faced by the leaders. These dilemmas are economic and ethical and these has been highlighted
below -

 Economic Dilemma- These are the situation that arises in an organisation when there is
no enough production of goods and services, sales and profits. These dilemmas create
difficulties in financial functioning of an organisation.
 Inflation – It refers to the constant increase in price of the goods and commodities. Due
to inflation there are several uncertainties that arise in the marketplace as organisational
sale and profit is affected by inflation. The leaders of Climeworks must work on
enhancing their technology which can help in mitigating carbon emission and they must
also focus on sustainability as it can help them to survive during uncertainties.
 Investment – Investment plays a huge role in effective functioning of an organisation
and in order to cope up with the investment crisis the leader of Climeworks must try to
promote themselves. Investment also helps the business in maintenance of growth and
success (Singh, 2018).
 Scarcity of resource- Demand of resources like Land, Labour and Capital is more than
its existence and therefore it becomes difficult for the leaders of organisations like
Climeworks as they are unable to fulfil the demand of the peoples.
1. Ethical Dilemma - It can also be defined as moral dilemma. It refers to the problem that
arises in a decision making process among two different options and when neither of
them is acceptable as ethical.
 Respect - It refer to the concept of treating everyone politely and with care. Respect for
employees and their decision is very important in an organisation as it motivates them to
work more effectively and efficiently in both short term and long term.
 Discrimination – Another ethical problem that affect the business is Discrimination. It
can be defined as an activity in which employee is treated unequally in the organisation.
There are various government policies and laws that are governed to protect the
employees from discrimination in the organisation.
 Health and Safety – In an organisation it is very important to provide healthy and safe
work environment to the employees. Sometimes in order to achieve short term goal cost
has been reduced by the organisation and it becomes difficult for a leader to keep a
maintain the short term and long term goal (Vrabcová, Urbancová and Petříček, 2022)

CONCLUSION
In this report it discusses the topic of building a sustainable corporation. Sustainable
business activity helps the company to fulfil their social responsibility and build the strong brand
image, but they need to assure they are able to maintain healthy networking environment in the
company. In this report it explains the responsibilities and regulations of Christoph Gebald and
Jan Wurzbacher as sustainable strategic mangers. If any company wants to solve the problem of
sustainability in business, so they need to assure they adapt different tools and techniques such as
Use the sustainable business is a specific marketing factor, consider long- term, Transmit
different to their customers. It discusses the economical and ethical quandary which plan of
action leader have to handle in this process for equalisation of long- term and short- term goals
such as unethical businesses environment, incomplete data, uncertainty change sand many more.
They need to adapt the different tools which support them.

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