Strategic Policy Development for Sustainability at Sydney Opera House

This report analyzes the policy development initiatives at the Sydney Opera House, with a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility. It details the Opera House's vision, mission, and goals, focusing on innovation, business acumen, and artistic excellence. The report outlines specific policies aimed at environmental sustainability, including reducing energy consumption and engaging stakeholders in sustainability efforts. It also covers corporate policies related to knowledge management and adherence to government regulations. The sustainability implementation plan includes objectives like reducing electricity and gas usage, engaging staff, and inspiring audiences. The report further discusses waste reduction strategies in the Opera House's cafe and the responsibilities of staff in maintaining sustainability. A sample questionnaire is provided to assess the effectiveness of sustainability presentations. The document concludes with references to relevant academic sources, providing a comprehensive overview of the Sydney Opera House's approach to policy development and sustainability.

Develop Policy

About Organisation
 Sydney opera house is the multi venue art centre in the
Sydney. It is the world famous and distinctive buildings.
 They have formally opened on 20th October 1973 and
being designed by the architect Jørn Utzon. It is a
building that change the image of entire country.
 They have fusing both modernist and ancient influences
which is situated at the site sacred to the Gadigal people
for thousands of years.
 Their structural elegance have made them one of the
symbol for twentieth century architecture. .

CONTD..
Vision statement
To be most outstanding and eminent in performing their art centre in the
globe (Price and Tucker, 2011).
Mission
 Their mission is to unite everyone where they can provide barrier free
access, creating the site and building and the experience they offer are
accessed by everyone.
 To be the best host in welcoming and inspiring the visitor with the help
of outstanding experience

CONTD..
Goal:
 Innovation in engaging the individual and
community.
 Having the best Artistic experience
Knowing the different competitors
business (Barr, 2012).
 To access the whole target market

CONTD..
Policies
 To be the most social and environmental sustainable to maintain the
brand name of the Opera House status as the modern Art of Australia.
 To have impact on the larger environmental outcome in making
contract the different stakeholders (LAMBERT and Jiang, 2010).
 To involve employees, community and their partners in the
sustainability problems and help them to take effective action
collectively as well as individually.

CONTD..
Different corporate polices made by the Sydney opera house
 To be the corporate memory, ensure proper knowledge and information
are collected and used to support the different daily activities and
business strategies with maintaining state, national and international
heritage values (Fisher and Svendsen, 2012).
 All the information and records are managed according to the State
Records Act 1998 and other laws, standards, policies and other needs
issued by NSW government.

CONTD..
Environment sustainability policy
 To set, deliver and communicate environmental sustainability goals and
execute the plan in every three years.
 Maintain clear accountabilities (Price and Tucker, 2011).
 Access and monitor the performance of employees and employer
against different standard, target and benchmarks.

Sustainability implementation plan
Implementation plan
Objective Plan
Reduce Energy use Reduce electricity use by 2% per
annum
Reduce gas use by 4% per annum
Engage and Inspire Engage staff in supporting
sustainability targets
Present information and train
employees
Inspire audience to consider
sustainanility on everyday choice

CONTD..
Action
required Associate
d target Resources Timeline Accountab
ility
Reduce electricity
use by 2% per
annum
The target will be
workers of the
organisation who is
using the electricity
as resource to
produce finished
goods.
New technology and
effective skills of
employees 2 years Employees will be
accountable to
reduce use of
electricity
Reduce gas use by
4% per annum
Same as the above
the workers will be
associated target
Innovative
techniques should be
used by workers 2 years Workers will be
accountable to reduce
gas use
Engage staff in
supporting
sustainability targets
Employer will be the
target to engage
employee in
maintaining
sustainability
Proper
communication so
conference hall will
be required to
engage staff
3 months Employer will be
accountable for engage
employee to manage
sustainability
Present information
and train employees
Supervisor and top
level management Professional will be
required to train
employees 4 months Supervisor will be
accountable to train
employees
Inspire audience to
consider
sustainability on
everyday choice
Whole staff of
organisation Strategies to inspire
audience such as
advertisement 7 months Members of
organisation

Monitoring strategies
Descripti
on Person
responsi
ble
Perform
ance
indicator
Baseline Target Data
collectio
n
Reduce
electricity use by
2% per annum
Employees will be
responsible to
reduce use of
electricity
They are now able to
reduce electricity use
by 2%
Last year the
organisation was
able to reduce
electricity use by 1%
Workers It is collected by
analysing the
financial data of
organisation
Reduce gas use
by 4% per
annum
Workers will be
responsible to
reduce gas use
They are now
able to reduce
gas use by 4%
Last year the
company was
able to reduce
gas use by 3%
Employees Data is gathered by
proper evaluating the
expenses made on
gas use
Engage staff in
supporting
sustainability
targets
Employer will be
responsible for
engage employee to
manage
sustainability
All employees
are not motivated
to engage in
maintaining
sustainability
All the staff was
able to engage in
maintaining
sustainability
Employers Data is collected to
surveying employees
Present
information and
train employees
Supervisor will
be responsible to
train employees
Effective training
programs are
now organised
by the supervisor
Organisation was
not providing
training programs
Supervisor Data is gathered by
employees through
personal interview
Inspire audience
to consider
sustainability on
everyday choice
Members of
organisation
Target market are
now inspired to
maintain
sustainability
All the target market
was not using their
product to maintain
sustainability
Whole organisation Survey made on the
target market and
question related to
the organisation
sustainability policy

Action explained to Assessor
 The plan is to reduce the use of electricity by 2%, with the help of new
technologies and effectiveness of employee.
 This energy is mostly used by workers as resource to produce finished good.
Workers are held accountable for decrease in use of gas by 4% per annum.
 Workers will be provided with innovative techniques to use (Barr, 2012).
 Furthermore, staff will be encourage supporting sustainability target,
employers will be responsible for the engagement of employee.

Part B
Communication to employees
 The assessor prepare 15 min. presentation to communicate with there
employee.
 To explain them there plan and strategies and there roles in achieving them.
The presentation was to introduce the environment sustainability policy in
company (Lambert and Jiang, 2010).
 To achieve it, they have already set few steps like accessing and monitoring
the performance of employee, maintaining accountability etc. These set of
steps will help company to achieve there goal of sustainable Envt. by
reducing the consumption of oil and electricity.

Organisation structure

Waste Reduction in Cafe
 To reduce the waste system in cafe company have come up with the plan
to pay more attention on raw material like nuts, floor etc,
 Putting more emphasis on the proper use of these raw material which
further helps to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in the working
of cafe (Fisher and Svendsen, 2012).
 Efficiency and effectiveness lead to better productivity and increase the
quality of finished product. This all together can help in reduction of
waste in cafe..

Responsibilities of staff to maintain
sustainability
 The employees of the organisation are responsible to maintaining proper
relationship with their supervisors and group members.
 All the information which collected should managed properly so that
safety and security can be made (Price and Tucker, 2011).
 Proper use of resources so that waste can be managed.
 Proper Corporate social responsibility should be made so that they can
protect environment and society

Presentation Questionnaire
Name:
Job role:
Questions
Did the presentation give proper understanding about the sustainability policy of the Sydney Opera House
Did the presentation was engaging for you
Do you know more knowledge about the reducing the waste
Rate the different question from 1 to 5
Responsibilities for the sustainability activities at the Sydney Opera House
Resource effectiveness and efficiency
The main outcome that is expected the Sydney Opera House sustainability policy
Short answer type question
How will you apply learning that come after the presentation in the context of Sydney Opera House
Write the summary about the presentation
Do You think that presentation will adopted by the large audience

References
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LAMBERT, E. G. and Jiang, S., 2010. A preliminary examination of the relationship
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Barr, S., 2012. Environment and society: Sustainability, policy and the citizen. Ashgate
Publishing, Ltd.
Price, S. and Tucker, M., 2011. Implications of a sustainability policy for facilities
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