Roles and Responsibilities in Building a Sustainable Organization

This report delves into the critical aspects of building a sustainable organization, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of a strategic manager. It highlights the importance of aligning business strategies with environmental and societal well-being. The report discusses key responsibilities such as performance management, planning, data analysis, risk management, crisis management, and coaching. It also covers essential concepts and tools for strategic business management, including life cycle assessment, energy efficiency tools, carbon footprint tools, and community development tools. Furthermore, the report addresses the economic and ethical dilemmas strategic leaders face when balancing long-term sustainability goals with short-term objectives, considering external factors, environmental issues, market dominance, recession, and product quality.

Building A Sustainable
Organisation

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
TASK-1 ...........................................................................................................................................2
Roles and responsibility as sustainable strategic manager..........................................................2
Concepts and tools of strategic business management................................................................4
TASK-2............................................................................................................................................5
The economic and ethical dilemmas that strategic leaders face in the process of balancing long
and short-term goals.....................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In the current world business will be focusing over the sustainable actions and ideas which puts a
positive effect on both the environment and business. The word sustainability in line of business
is also been described as the actions performed from the business which do not have adverse
effect on the community, society or environment as a whole(Sachs, Woelm and et,al., 2021).
This is basically conveys two main factor which impacts the business upon environment and
another one is the effectiveness over the society. The main goal is to execute and make small
strategies which also has positive effects on the least of few areas which will be looked
afterwards the business. During forming these strategies the firm considers different factors like
social, economic and environmental. This project is based on the business clime works and this
project will be including specific discussion about the responsibilities and roles of the strategic
manager. However, this project will also be covering the tools and techniques of strategic
business management for its best suitability.
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MAIN BODY
A sustainable business is basically concerned with all the fulfilment of the ethical
requirements of financial, society and environment demands. The impacts of these activities will
be helpful for both the society and the business overall in the long run. Responsibility and roles
of a strategic manager can be followed:
TASK-1
Roles and responsibility as sustainable strategic manager
The roles of Strategic managers are planned which are to execute, develop and also
manages the long-term strategies of the firm's business(Silvestre and Ţîrcă, 2019). Here are few
of the main responsibilities of strategic managers:
 Performance management: One of the important role of the manager which helps in
development and management via KPI (Key performance indicators) of the concerned
company's business which serves accuracy in setting budgeting, resource planning and
goals. The managers of clime works which should look forward after the business
performance during some specific period of time on daily intervals.
 Planning: This is one more pretended by the manager. Their responsibility is to
recognize a particular time and assets expected to accomplish targets of the business.
Essential spotlight is on creating plans and later on executing them, subsequent to
exploring alongside this they decide the essential needs into impressive and noteworthy
plans. A powerful arrangement renders centre, improvement in activities. Clime works
should consider the most appropriate techniques to guarantee maintainability.
 Analysing data: Considering the factor above the job which is to collect relevant data
and also to analyse result of the executed plan by the firm. This can be helpful for them to
examine strategies which works for them and also to improve the potential areas. After
wards, with this they uses those analytics in way to set the standards which helps to
measure long-term marketplace strategies which help to assists in making resource and
financial decisions(Moradi, Naderi and et,al., 2018). As for the chosen firm there focus
should be over the sustainability, the manager should also analyse and collect their data.
 Management of risk: This will be considered the most crucial role which is played from
the managers, here is evaluation performed which analysis possible threats and also set
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up the efficient plans which reduces those factors of risks. This also allows the business
to interpret, understand and also manages the expectations, this aids is for improving the
relations with its consumer's, workers and suppliers. With the reference to Climworks the
managers should focus on their forecasting any possibility of risk which the business
might be facing in the close future.
 Management in a crisis situation: In a circumstance of emergency, the strategic
manager of the worry business assists them with elevating from the horrible conditions.
In the circumstance of emergency they will generally lay out and adjust such techniques
that aides in raising client worth and cut down costs. Not withstanding this the
additionally dissect the main driver of the of the circumstance and give useful answers for
them to forestall its further event. As per the picked organization they should have the
option to take the best and productive measures in such circumstance.
 Coaching: This is strategic manager's task to mentor the division managers and assist
them with laying out plans so that the can meet them hierarchical objectives. They help
the bosses to make techniques for every division and later on audit, dissect and deal with
all the office designs this guarantees that the all offices are engaged towards same
authoritative objective(Dzwigol, 2019). In setting with Climeworks they ensure that their
bosses in general or departmental head have the expected training to guarantee the
aligned accomplishment of its goals.
Some of the key responsibilities of strategy managers:
Based on the preceding statements the important responsibilities of Climeworks managers can be
listed beneath:
 They will be liable for analysing the trends of competition and the market of the
concerned firm's business.
 They also ensures the orientation of the firm's processes, resources and goals within the
overall existing departments with the specific strategies.
 They can be also helpful in developing long term strategies of the firm.
 Also helps to identifying overall threats and opportunities.
 They utilise, manage and also plan the given projects and suggestions.
 Other responsibility is to make and observe reports over the projects.
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 Examining and Performing the researches and the effectualness of the
processes,operations and shareholders.
 Introducing the firm with new projections, recommendations and discoveries actions.
 Their last but will be not counted as least the responsibility is to guide the senior
executives to make their decisions.
Concepts and tools of strategic business management
Strategic business management will include the execution and formation of major
objectives of the firm. The strategies will be formed by considering the firm's resources and large
examination of external and internal surroundings within the operational areas of the company.
This also allows the company's business to assign their resources precisely and with that it also
provides a precise way towards the business by stipulating it's developing plans, policies and
goals in way to achieve the goals(Thacker, Hal and et,al.,2019).. Following are few techniques
and tools of strategic business management.
 Life cycle assessment tool: This tool allows the firm's business to reach towards a basic
idea about the LCA which additionally helps to allocate the main elements of technique.
This pre planned is used for the industrial companies, academic campuses and firms etc.
this also describes how to integrate the life cycle which is basically based on
environmental performance by keeping in mind the decision-making.
 Energy efficiency tool: This tools will be providing the resources which are trending on
using the energy resources on also trends in using the degree of energy and using the
energy which can be used within the industries(Mio, Blundo and et,al., 2020). This will
help to determine the fields of measurement, improvement of any further possible to
improving the energy.
 Carbon foot print tool: It assists the firms and managers to track ,the solid waste and
also helps to prepare a report for cut down of release of Green House Gases while using
the different waste management activities.
 Toxic chemicals and pollution prevention tool: This will be helpful to estimate the
fumes which are produced within workplaces and also spreads the toxic damage because
of the skin contact to the chemical during the industrial and commercial operations that
involves any toxic or chemical components. which also evaluates the release of toxicants
or chemical in air, water and land.
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 Community development tool: By this tool firm's compare, find and also extensively
examine the communities to use the new manner in way to expand the company's
business(Fuertes, Sabattin and et,al., 2020). This also enables the business to efficiently
select the site and will also be able to make accurate and fast decisions those are based on
numerical data sets which includes industrial, sociological, property solutions and
transpositional.
 Workforce development tool: This is a cyber-space for interchanging and e-learning
knowledge. Which is helpful for the professionals at workers, workplaces, economical
development and academic professional which gets advance solutions with an ever-
changing system.
 Workers safety tool: This tools is an interactional tool which is for the training purpose
regardless the workplace health and safety topics. The training is well informed and also
user uses the interface(Makadok, Barney and et,al., 2018). At few companies the advance
modules which can be used to get ideas which are reliable.
All these tools are taken into consideration before forming the strategies to build a sustainable
environment via Climeworks.
TASK-2
The economic and ethical dilemmas that strategic leaders face in the process of balancing
long and short-term goals.
 External factors: This is the most widely recognized issue looked by the essential chiefs
while adjusting their short and long run objectives. This hindrance is for the most part
experienced by them on the grounds that the market is a dynamic and consistently
changing spot and the chiefs can not depend on its equivalent plans after a specific time-
frame. If there should be an occurrence of ominous changes they need set down new
plans and procedures that assists their association with keeping up with solidness and
lessen their dangers. Because of this the transient objectives of administrators of
Climeworks re affected.
 Environmental issues: The associations are generally worried about the greatest usage
of their assets permitting them produce most extreme income age. Yet, this doesn't
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suggest that the associations are permitted to take advantage of the their environmental
factors and damage the general public in any conceivable way(Samimi, Herrmann and
et,al., 2020). To diminish this the supervisors make specific arrangements to guarantee no
such abuse happens. In setting to Climeworks they have stepped up to the plate by
growing such innovation that professes to dial back the monstrous test of environment
changing through catching CO2 straightforwardly from the air. This impacts the drawn
out objectives of the business.
 Dominance of other business in marketplace: This is also appreciable economic factor
which the managers experience as the trouble-ness. The target market will be challenged
for the more likely start-ups business, as the presence of another dominants. The
Climeworks manager do not immensely gets affected from these factor as the business
has to come up with advanced innovative idea which serves the environment but this also
do not show that there should be considered another ideas which affects the long term and
short term goals.
 Recession: This is another element that adversely influences the dynamic course of vital
managers . It is a time of transitory downswing of efficient development for the not set in
stone by fall in Gross Domestic product (GDP) in two progressive quarters. The efficient
exercises like, modern and exchanging are diminished. The decision making of the
picked business' chiefs are not exceptionally affected by this variable and it likewise
influences the transient objectives.
 Compromise with quality of product: The business managers will generally commit
this error to save additional expense spent on creation by compromising over the nature
of the item. This helps business pioneers to create additional income however there is a
gamble included that the clients can see the modest nature of the item(de Ruyter, Dahl
and et,al., 2021). In a circumstance where the clients notice the nature of the item and it
can impact the kindness of the business adversely.
It is fundamental for business to give the clients the quality items in light of the fact that a clients
choses a brand over mediocre items simply because of the quality. Indeed, even this present
circumstance happens because of a few specialized gives then they should guarantee the nature
of the item prior to delivering it into the market and on the off chance that any issues then they
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shouldn't convey those items on the lookout. The managers of Climeworks ought to think about
the best features of it's products.
CONCLUSION
From this project this can be concluded that each should take the responsibilities of their
own and also take compulsory actions in way to fulfil their duties which are ethical in nature
towards society, environment and communities. This can be done in the manner that this can be
beneficial towards the both the environment and the company. This business will take overall all
the environment in the long run. This can also be helpful to them by increasing their trust within
its suppliers and costumers which helps them to build better relationships within them.
However, there is more which can be discussed above that how their managers will be assisting
the business leaders which understands the want of their areas and also to make specific plan
which can be helpful to them which supports the surrounding for a long period of time. Along
with this, there can be specific discussion over the main responsibilities and roles of the strategic
managers to their certain business and also the ethical and economical dilemmas those are faced
by the firm during developing the strategies for their leaders of the business. Considering all
these elements will can ensure building a sustainable firm.
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