University: Managing for Sustainability - Report Analysis

This report, titled "Managing for Sustainability," delves into various aspects of sustainable business practices. It begins by identifying key environmental threats such as deforestation and pollution, alongside opportunities like renewable energy and green buildings. The report then explores the role of public policy in addressing sustainability issues, emphasizing the importance of government intervention. Case studies of companies like Interface, Fuji Xerox, and ANZ are presented to illustrate different approaches to integrating sustainability into corporate strategies and operations. The report also examines the Australian greenhouse calculator and the role of supermarkets in promoting healthier consumer choices, addressing both challenges and opportunities within the broader context of sustainability. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and strategies involved in managing for sustainability across different sectors.

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Managing for sustainability
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Contents
Week-1.......................................................................................................................................2
Week 3.......................................................................................................................................3
Week4........................................................................................................................................4
Week 5.......................................................................................................................................4
Week6........................................................................................................................................5
Week 9.......................................................................................................................................6
Week 10.....................................................................................................................................7

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Week-1
Threats-
Deforestation-Deforestation is one major threat for Wesfarmers business and is a cause of
climatic condition.
Pollution-air pollution is considered biggest environmental health risk. Solid waste is also
one more reason for the deaths occurring due to pollution and hence is a major concern for
Wesfarmers.
Population growth and urbanization-rapid population growth and urbanization has led to
scarcity of resources and there are other problems like decrease in air quality, changes in
weather conditions, subsequent food shortage which is a concern of Wesfarmers(Chambers et
al., 2019).
Water scarcity-Shortage in the level of water is a matter of worry for Wesfarmers as it has led
to scarcity of food, less economic development, regional water disputes.
Destruction of biodiversity-Overfishing, cutting of trees has led to extinction of plants and
animals and there is loss of ecosystem and economy as a whole and hence is a concern for
Wesfarmers.
Opportunities
1. Developments likenon-fossils natural gas, biomass sources like solar energy are
opportunities in creating a sustainable environment.
2. Solar chimney has led to no depletion of natural resources and creation of green electricity
which is an opportunity to reduce pollution.
3. Creating green sustainable buildings gives an opportunity for more efficient utilization of
non-renewableresources (Chen & Wu, 2019).
4. Encouragement of more indoor environment including quality of air, thermal
powerprovides satisfaction in physiological aspects and is an opportunity.
5. Creating green building, where one must select material in a way that it consumes less
energy on manufactureleads to effective use that it does not affect the environment.

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References
Chambers, K. F., Baker, A. C., McKay, S. K., & Morgan, H. (2019). Retrospective Sustainability
and Resilience: Complementary Concepts for Managing Systems (No. ERDC/TN
EMRRP-SR-86). ERDC Vicksburg United States. Retrieved from:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1069283.pdf
Chen, A., & Wu, M. (2019). Managing for Sustainability: The Development of Environmental
Flows Implementation in China. Water, 11(3), 433.https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030433
Week 3
1. Problems that are related to public can be social, economic or it can be political. Each
sector has different sets of problems and issues and those require public policy to solve.
Public policy includes legal decisions that aim at achieving rational outcomes. Therefore
businesses while dealing with public problems and issues go for developing public policy to
solve these issues and problems.But without intervention of government public plans and
policy can be effectively implemented to solve the issues, as such these should remain under
domain of government. Public policy can be regulatory, redistributive or distributive
depending on the problem. Businesses are created under legal laws of the government
therefore it is important to have government policy that can be used during any
circumstances.
2. In case of developing nations though there are instance of governance deficit in public
policy but still these should be kept under domain of government. However, to reduce
shortcoming in governance of public policies, government can ensure better quality service
delivery and local accountability systems. Also political involvement which acts as hurdle in
developing nation’s public policy governance need to be reduced to overcome major deficits.
(Gokarn & Kuthambalayan, 2019).
References
Gokarn, S., & Kuthambalayan, T. S. (2019). Creating sustainable fresh produce supply chains by
managing uncertainties. Journal of Cleaner Production, 207, 908-
919.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.072

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Week4
a. Success of Interface‘s sustainability initiative is focused on seven fronts. Firstly,
eliminating all sorts of waste from all sectors of business industry. Secondly, to
benign emissions materials or remove toxic materials from the. Thirdly, use of
renewable source of energy in operations. Fourthly, closing the loop which means to
create new designs and products using bio based materials and resources. Fifth factor
is resources must be efficient that means to eliminate waste there must be proper
utilization. Sixthfactor includes sensitize stakeholders that means dealing with
improving the living standards. The last key factor includes recreating new designs
commerce which means to create new business that encourages value of sustainable
industry.
b. Interface has integrated principles of natural capitalism into people, process and
culture by using their resources more productively so that depletion can be reversed.
Also they use recycling and waste minimisation efforts to lessen pollution and have
imbibed natural capitalism principles amongst their employees. These have reduced
degradation of environment and have lowered costs due to efficient use of resource
and optimised process. They use cradle to cradle approach to minimise waste and
reuse materials for product re-manufacture (Gong et al., 2019).
References
Gong, M., Gao, Y., Koh, L., Sutcliffe, C., & Cullen, J. (2019). The role of customer awareness in
promoting firm sustainability and sustainable supply chain management. International
Journal of Production Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.033
Week 5
1. According to Baumgartner there are different approaches which assist business activities
for managing corporate values and philosophies and include three distinct levels i.e.
normative (cultural) management, strategic management and operational management
(Baumgartner 2014). At Fuji Xerox evidence of Baumgartner’s view is seen during
execution of their sustainability strategies at distinct corporate functions which is part of
operational level i.e. in their vision, mission, long term objectives, strategic planning and
these are focused to manage operations, production and maintenance and are meant to drive

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continuous innovation across cross functional divisions with specific focus on sustainability
oriented activities.
2. Fuji Xerox is sustaining corporation because it had already proved that it holds leader
position in development and application of sustainable operations. Its ground breaking
development for remanufacturing spare and damaged parts led them to achieve success in
sustainable management.
3. As resources are very limited but wants are unlimited therefore there must be efficient
utilization of sustainable resources. Waste materials should be renewed and recycled. Efforts
should be made to enhance more production of sustainable and green resources which will
create more environment friendly products and will lead to healthy ecosystem. Like Fuji,
even Wesfarmers can create technological advancementto preserve ecosystem and eliminate
waste.
References
Baumgartner, R. J. (2014). Managing corporate sustainability and CSR: A conceptual
framework combining values, strategies and instruments contributing to sustainable
development. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental
Management, 21(5), 258-271. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1336
Week6
1. ANZ report includes managing the sustainability through social, economic and
environmental risks and opportunities. These factors must be taken into day to day business
activities in order to encourage more sustainable business growth. ANZ focuses on to create
values of customers, stakeholders and the environment at work place or in the organizations.
2. With the help of high standard code of conduct, ANZ bank determines behaving fairly and
responsibly with the customers, community and the employees. Implementing and
strengthening the consequences of the management that is applicable to employees is another
indicator that is practised at ANZ bank which has helped to improvetheir net score banking at
retail, commercial and institutional businesses. It also interacts with 700,000 retail and
commercial customers to communicate more awareness for their products and CSR services

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to achieve social and economic participation as well as have implemented new disputes
resolution principles by this year to remain fair and responsible.
3. According to ANZ, responsible banking means fair bank that maintains high standards of
rules and conductsin order to improve outcomes of customers. The main strategic priority is
to provide a purposeful and valuable transformation of the bank. It plays an important role for
customer support and manages the social and environmental impacts. It helps in taking
decision making in partnership to influence the supply and growth of the business. It has
integrated equator Principles in the plans and policies. Equator principle provides minimum
standard to encourage in making responsible decision process (Hong et al., 2019).
References
Hong, P., Jagani, S., Kim, J., & Youn, S. H. (2019). Managing sustainability orientation: An
empirical investigation of manufacturing firms. International Journal of Production
Economics, 211, 71-81.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.035
Week 9
The Australian greenhouse calculator helps to find out how one can reduce production of
greenhouse gas and combat climate change. Australian people use greenhouse gases mainly
for transportation, heating and cooling purpose. Majority can lower this by reducing energy
bills and save money. On other side if one uses recycled and used products environment
sustainability and energy savings can be attained Australian greenhouse calculator help to
find out what one saves in a family and changes made in it (Colomb, et al. 2013). Depending
on living standards andplaces where one lives is greatly affected while thinking for
sustainable business and living environment.
In order to live more sustainability, one must have to create business strategy that reflects the
materials issues along with the purpose of creating a sustainable work environment. There
must be more importance to the value and demand of the customers, employees and the
community behaving friendly and fairly. There must be high standard of code of conduct in
order to make sustainable business environment. There are three broad areas of priority to
focus and these are environmental sustainability, housing and financial wellbeing.
Environmental sustainability supports households, financial sectors and business to improve
environment sustainability. Housing involves improving the availability of housing options

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for the people staying at that place. Financial wellbeing includes wellbeing of employees,
customers and other stakeholders where main commitment is to achieve sustainable
development together with public set targets and to support their achievements.
References
Colomb, V., Touchemoulin, O., Bockel, L., Chotte, J. L., Martin, S., Tinlot, M., & Bernoux,
M. (2013). Selection of appropriate calculators for landscape-scale greenhouse gas
assessment for agriculture and forestry. Environmental Research Letters, 8(1),
015029. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029/meta
Week 10
Supermarkets play vital role on today’s modern living and have created more demand and
customers due to low prices. The most dominating supermarkets are Coles and
Woolworthson basis of sales figure. Supermarkets get advantage with the promotions of junk
food in terms of money paid by manufacturers and the increment in sales. The biggest
concern is the health issue that the public is facing and it is the tobacco and alcohol
consumption. Along with this, fat food and soda created 63 percent obese and overweight in
Australia (Kusi-Sarpong & Sarkis, 2019). The two major areas where the companies need to
take a call are threat of regulation and negative perceptions of the public. Woolworths came
up with healthy lunch box in keeping view about the health issues concerning the public. By
creating such innovative things, it places its high positions in the market and gives a tag line
healthier Australia. The most important part is that the supermarkets are now changing their
markets and transforming it into a healthy one. They place more focus on the public’s health
sector and this will result in more demand and more customers, further encourages higher
growth and competition in the markets. By encouraging more healthy and tasty food products
and using healthy social campaign super market will achieve and expand more business. If
there will be healthy food then there will be limited health issues. Good health condition will
create more scope of business.
References
Kusi-Sarpong, S., Gupta, H., & Sarkis, J. (2019). A supply chain sustainability innovation
framework and evaluation methodology. International Journal of Production
Research, 57(7), 1990-2008.https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1518607

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