Leadership Management Report: Australian Paper, Recycling Strategy

This report provides an overview of the Australian Paper company, examining its leadership management practices within the paper manufacturing industry. It analyzes the company's mission to develop sustainable paper products and its key stakeholders, including printing companies, supermarket chains, and the government. A significant portion of the report focuses on the company's recycling continuous improvement strategy, detailing the implementation plan, performance indicators, and monitoring processes. The report also explores various employee participation techniques for business operations, and recommends diversifying product ranges to include mid and low-price products. The company's commitment to recycling, waste management, and the use of renewable energy are also highlighted, along with an assessment of potential strategies for business improvement and employee involvement.

Running head: LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT
Leadership management

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Assessment 3
Overview
The Australian Paper is one of the well known and leading names in the history of local
paper manufacturing. It has been involved in the paper manufacturing industry from the year
1868. This industry is mainly involved in the manufacturing of products like the paper, pulp,
envelops and other such products. They are the sole producer of the official papers and the
printing papers in Australia (Steinhubl et al., 2018). They are also one of the major suppliers of
lightweight sacs, packaging bags, and other industrial papers. Apart from this, they are also one
of the sole producers of the cardboard carton industry.
Their mission is to keep up their commitment to developing paper in the most sustainable way in
order to satisfy the needs of the future generation.
Key stakeholder overview
They are one of the largest employers located in the Latrobe Valley. They make sure to
keep a proper relationship with the stakeholders. One of their major motifs is to provide
employment to a large number of people. The company makes sure that they are taking proper
care of the interests of their stakeholders (Baddon et al., 2017). Some of their stakeholders are
the Australian printing companies and book printing companies who buy the big packaging
boxes in order to pack their materials. The supermarket chains like Aldi, Asda, and other such
supermarket chains import or buy these boxes from the company for their packaging purposes.
Apart from these, the Government is also one of the important stakeholders they set many
important rules and regulations for the Company (Pivnenko, Eriksson & Astrup, 2015). One of

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their important stakeholders is Breast Cancer Network Australia. They are proud in
recognizing them as the stakeholder. It is one of the important notes to print the Beacon on the
paper in order to serve as an inspiration for the men and women suffering from this disease.
Recycling continuous improvement strategy
This is one of the most important lookouts of this company (Markey et al.,2018). The
company makes sure that they are not earning their fame at the cost of any pollution to the
planet. They make sure that their recycling process is being used on a constant and regular basis.
They make sure to buy a huge amount of waste paper worth $20 million of rupees. They buy
these waste papers only in order to recycle and reuse them. These waste papers are re-pulped and
de-inked for using them in the premium recycled office and printing papers (Baddon et al.,
2017).
In order to make it a constant strategy they make sure that this recycling process
takes place on a constant basis, the waste papers are collected from the landfills every year.
Landfills wastes are harmful in nature and can cause huge pollution. The recycling plant is
located at Maryvale and it has the capacity to recycle about 80000 tonnes of landfill waste
papers each year. They recycle the waste papers using the premium recycled products. The
implement the constant improvement strategy by constantly upgrading their processes and their
recycling units with the most modern and updated technologies like-
 Reflex 100% Recycled,
 Planet Ark Mindful Paper and
 Australian 100 %

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Implementation plan
Essential Actions process Required follow-up
Waste paper purchase Every year waste papers are to
be purchased from the local
paper industry
To maintain a dairy in order to
see if the maximum amount of
waste papers have been
collected.
Segregating the materials that
can and cannot be recycled
It is essential to differentiate
between the products that can
be recycled and the ones that
cannot be. For example, a
company called Illy started
disposing of the wastes like
coffee pods. However, they
were not recycling or reducing
the waste. They were only
being transported to another
part of the country. These
kinds of schemes are to be
avoided.
Appoint proper experts and
modern machinery that will be
good at segregating the
products and recycling them
properly.

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Performance Indicators
 Chemical emission rate- It has to be made sure that the chemical emission is being
reduced. 246244 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission is reduced by the recycling of waste
papers (Xiu et al., 2018). The cardboard recycling plant of this company has delivered
about 20569 tones of brown packaging o the landfill wasted papers.
 Compliance with water license conditions- The Company constantly reuses the water
that is being used in their production process. They make sure that the water is being
reused many times before that water is used in the production process (Hutchins, 2016).
EPA license is used by the company Discharge efficiency- The Company makes sure that the sewage or the wastewater is
treated and then discharged in the local river after proper EPA license condition.
 Renewable energy consumption- About 51 percent of renewable energy is generated by
the company. The Maryville Mill is mainly used for generating the renewable form of
energy in order to satisfy all the energy needs.
Monitoring Continuous improvement plan
In order to monitor the Continuous improvement plan, the company will be taking regular
feedback and follow up processes. They must appoint a special team of experts which will be
checking the improvement of the different types of machinery that are being used.

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Mentoring or coaching procedure for teaching the staff about the importance of recycling
In order to make sure that the coaching procedure is taking place properly; the company
has to arrange for seminars and special workshops for the employees. The company has to make
sure that all the employees are taking part in the same so that they can be taught about the
importance of recycling
The modern systems like the ICT tools and the audiovisual representations must be used in order
to include all the details of the
Performance recording system
Events Query Timeline
Setting up of advanced new
plants
Will the newly set up plants
are cost-effective
4months
Working of the recycling
plants
Carrying on the follow-up
process in a proper manner
2months
Performance variable
 Document work performance
 Take some time in order to properly set the works and the plan of action as per which the
workers have planned to move forward.
 Carrying out performance-based conversation with the employees.

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 Report on achievements and problems
Standard Work
This is one of the most important strategies that must be used by the company in order to
make sure that the work is being carried on properly. In order to do that, they have to make sure
to document each and every aspect so that they can serve as the baseline for constant and rapid
improvement.
 Planning further continuous improvement
Items to be included further Carrying out the process desired output
REFFIBRE technology  The recycling
machinery uses the
pulps in order to
recycle. the Mean
Fibre Age (number of
times a fiber has been
used before entering a
paper mill) and the
This will help in imbibing a
cost-effective method of
improving the continuous
paper recycling process.

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Mean Number of Uses
(number of times a
fiber will be used after
leaving the paper mill)
will be used in order to
upgrade the production
 New tools will be
installed and then they
were processed under
real processing
conditions
Developing a bio-based
economy. This will help in
increasing the Global demand
for tree-based materials.
New raw materials and the
new improvements will be
carried on
This will help in achieving the
overall or the Global effect

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Assessment 2
Answer 1
Taking manufacturing offshore
In order to use this option, the company will have to initiate a proper employee
involvement process. There are many different techniques for using this method. The company
will have to overcome many hurdles while using this particular activity. Some of the employee
participation techniques that can be used are
Give them autonomy
This is one of the major employee participation techniques that must be used in case of
taking the production offshore. This is mainly because of the fact that taking the business
offshore needs a lot of effort and labor. The offshore employees will demand freedom or a kind
of autonomy in order to make sure that they are not being overburdened (Greif, 2017). This
might become tough for ABS Company as they are in a bad condition currently.
Advantage
The only advantage of this method will be that the production cost will be lowered a bit.
ABS Company will be able to curtail over the cost of production but at the same time, they have
to train their employees properly. This will be tough at for the company (Edjabou et al., 2015).
Bring on the Perks
As ABS Company is suffering from a huge lack of capital fund it will be tough for them
to start any new kinds of perks or compensation strategy.

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Disadvantage
Thus, the idea of starting any new kinds of monetary benefit for the employees will not
be a very good idea for the present state of ABS Company. Thus, it is for this reason that the
company must be considering some other options.
Laying off employees across all sections of the business
The current scenario of the ABS Company is not proper to allow the distribution of the
employees over all sectors. This would need an entire organizational change and would require a
huge amount of time and energy. This is not possible for the present state of the company. As a
result of this, the company has to think of another option.
Give Them Autonomy
This would help the company in dividing the workloads. However, at the same time, they
have to give a huge amount of energy for the reallocation of the employees. The reallocation of
the employees will require a restructuring of the autonomy as well.
Advantages
Though they will be able to carry on some parts of the work properly.It will be easy for the staffs
to pay more attention to the new load of work.

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Disadvantage
The new departmental heads will require some sort of autonomy over the rest of the
employees. This will surely create tension among the employees. There can also be a problem
for the company. Keeping the employees updated is one of the disadvantages for the current state
of the ABS company.
This will become one of the major looks out of the company after reallocation or the laying off
the employees across the different departments. This will also require the organization to give
proper information to the employees so that they can take up the new roles and responsibilities.
Diversifying the product ranges in order to include the mid and low price products
Advantage
The employee participation technique will be involving the employees in their decision
making process. The employees will be giving a good range of innovative ideas for the better
and diversified production of the mid and low priced products. This will be advantageous as
ABS Company can use this option with the current inputs (raw materials, fund, and labor)
present with them. They cannot convince their customers to pay premium prices. They do not
have the proper expertise to undertake the; production of any new high profile products in order
to attract the high-income group customers, rather they must concentrate over the production
goods that will be affordable by the majority of customers belonging from the mid and low-
income groups.

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Disadvantage
As ABS Company is already beset with a huge difficulty of meeting with the tough
competition and the consumer demands, this option will bring some sort of problems (Jørgensen
et al., 2016). It might be tough for the company to focus over a bulk production at the single
time. However, they must be taking up some risks in order to deal with their current condition.
It is prudent for the ABS company to go with the last option that is Diversifying the product
ranges in order to include the mid and low price products.
This is mainly because of the fact that the current state of the company is poor in terms of
capital and expertise. They have to deal with the high competition that is growing in the market
and also combat with the entrance of the new firm (Baddon et al., 2017). If they start focusing on
the mid and low priced products they will be an ability to appeal to a large number of customers
rather than producing the premium priced products (Viagi, Panizzolo & Biazzo, 2017). They will
neither be able to gather the best technology nor the labor for producing the premium quality
products. Thus, this is one of the most important options that the ABS Company must be trying
to take up.
In order to make sure that the continuous improvement strategy is being maintained, the
company has to make sure that that the continuous improvement strategies are being maintained
properly.
Answer2
One of the important strategies is Gemba Walks. This is the process by which the company
goes to the place where the work is getting done. This is one of the methods that the ABS

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Company must be using. They have to go to the spots where the new kinds of productions are
being undertaken. It is for this reason that ABS Company must be trying to carry on with this
process. As they are about to start a new method of producing the mid and the low priced
products, it is for this reason that this must be one of the most important strategies to be used by
the Company.
In order to communicate these improvements to the relevant stakeholders, the company
will have to make sure that they are arranging for regular meetings and taking proper follow-
ups. This will help them to make sure that they have a total report about the kinds of
improvements that are being done by the employees of the organization (Lee & Steers, 2017).
The managers have to make sure that they are going to the spot of production and making sure
that the employees are able to understand the new lines of production that they are undertaking.
Answer3
Group-based approach
One of the best means by which the company can assure that they are being able to
carry on the coaching sessions properly is doing a group based system. This will help the
organization to make sure that they are able to train their employees properly (Mikkelsen et al.,
2015). As they are currently in a poor condition, they have to make sure that the coaching and
the training sessions are being carried on properly. This will help them to make sure that the
employees are getting g proper training
They have to develop some good and helping seminars and training sessions that will be helpful
for increasing the knowledge base of the employees.

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