Developing Workplace Policy and Procedures for Sustainability

This report provides an analysis of developing workplace policies and procedures for sustainability. It evaluates the effectiveness of existing sustainability policies, particularly focusing on the Sydney Opera House, and examines progress towards established targets in areas like electricity, water, and gas usage. The report identifies areas needing improvement, such as data accessibility for stakeholders and technology utilization, and discusses methods for measuring and analyzing resource consumption through key performance indicators like revenue growth and customer satisfaction. Recommendations are offered to enhance the sustainability policy, including management support, staff involvement, technology integration, and barrier elimination. The report concludes that implementing these strategies can improve organizational performance and contribute to a more sustainable future. Desklib provides access to similar reports and study resources for students.

Develop Workplace
Policy and Procedures
for Sustainability

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Progress towards established targets............................................................................................1
Areas of Improvement.................................................................................................................2
Measuring and analysing the resource consumption...................................................................3
Recommendations........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability is a business strategy which helps the organisation to attain the inherent
goals and objectives effectively (Chams, and García-Blandón, 2019). The company can improve
their overall performance by using the right plan and strategies. This report aims to analyse about
effectiveness of the sustainability policy and system development. On the other hand, in this
report there will be brief evaluation about the environmental sustainability policy. Along with
that, there will be discussion about different objectives like training and programs, planning and
developing safety etc. This will help to know whether the sustainability plan is effective or not.
For further instance, there will be brief discussion about the policy that it helps the employees in
an effective manner.
MAIN BODY
Progress towards established targets.
 Opera House Electricity usage – In 2014 the opera house electricity usage was hopping
75% (Neutzling, and et.al 2018). From, there the opera house has made some big changes
to minimize the electricity usage. In 2017, the company has upgraded their sea water
cooling system which reduces the energy consumption by 9%. As a progress to this, in
that year they had build the new control management system to reduce the consumption
by 10%. In current scenario the company has reduce the usage by 19% which assures that
they had made some significant improvements.
 Opera House water Usage – In the new sustainability plan and strategy the opera house
has reduced their water wastage. They now only use 15% of water facilities to manage
the operations.
 Opera house gas Usage – The new sustainability plan helps the opera house to minimize
their gas usage. It helps in betterment for the environment their usage reduced to now
10%.
 Opera House annual resource usage – Under the new era the opera house is using more
than 85% of the energy consumption usage which is equivalent to 2500 households.
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Areas of Improvement.
There are different trends that may require remedial action. The sustainability plan needs
to succeed at different aspects (Atanda, 2019). There are various shortfalls which is described
below:
Data accessibility by the stakeholders – The organisation must ensure that the
stakeholders are indulged more while implementing different plans and strategies. There are
different ways to provide to stakeholders access to more data.
 The opera house must involves its stakeholders in the real time decision making process.
On the other hand they had develop an effective communication with the stakeholders.
 The opera house must involve various representatives and stakeholders when developing
the effective plan of sustainability.
Partnership and government support – There are different companies in the market. In
order to maintain a healthy partnership with the government. The organisation needs to fulfil
various government policies and regulations.
A sustainability plan helps the organisation to improve its overall performance in the
market. There are various factors which is described below:
Technology utilization at different levels of the sustainability plan:
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 Opera house needs to improve their technology this will help them to become more
effective while carrying out operations.
 A system technology is and interconnected framework which help the organisation to
become more productive. On the other hand, it does not involve any help of the further
human design output.
Equipment and facility technology could help the company to achieve greater results:
Opera house must ensure that there equipments and facility must be improved in a
systematic way (Thorlakson, de Zegher, and Lambin, 2018). This will help them to achieve
greater results they will also create a sustainable performance in the market. There are various
improvements in the plan which are described below:
 Use of the technology – The organisation must use various technologies which could
help them to achieve the inherent goals and objectives in the market.
 Support the research with regard to sustainability this area may help the opera house to
understand about the various market trends with the help of technology.
Measuring and analysing the resource consumption.
The review of the policies of the Sydney opera house could help to measure and analyse
the resource consumption. The opera house has different sustainability plan which is
implemented in their workplace (Chawla, and et.al 2018). Their key performance is basically
measured through the index with the help of the sustainable policies.
Key performance index which is also known as KPI is a quantifiable tool to measure the
organisation performance. The five key performance indicators are described below:
 Revenue Growth – The organisation could measure their performance with their revenue
growth in the market. There are different ways to generate more revenues by
implementing new strategies and innovative ideas in the workplace. Opera house is
measuring the performance with the help of the revenues which are generated in the
market.
 Revenue per client – It is a key performance indicator which help the organisation to
measure their performance. Opera house use the resources effectively to attract different
customers in the market.
 Customer satisfaction – This is the main factor through which the organisation could
measure the performance with the customer satisfaction.
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From the above key indicators the company has adopted a sustainable plan to measure
their performance. They can make their performance measure more accurate with the help of the
key indicator like customer satisfaction and revenue growth.
Sydney Opera house sustainability policy helps to measure their performance. The
organisation use the resource effectively in order to achieve the goals and objectives in the
market. They are working towards the betterment of the society and they attracting lot of new
customers in their shows which help them to have maintain a sustainable performance in the
market (Jia, and et.al 2018). On the other hand, Australians are consuming the resources at an
exponential rate in the market. The opera house has implemented new strategies and methods
that will help them to fully utilize various constraints in the environment. With the help of these
strategies their revenues growth is maximized and it ensures that they are achieving the goals and
objectives. The key performance indicator which is revenue growth plays a major role in
measuring the overall growth of the organisation. The main plus point of the opera house is that
they involves its stakeholders while making different decisions and encourages them to use the
resources effectively and in a responsive manner.
Recommendations.
To improve the sustainability policy of the opera house.
Sydney Opera house is maximizing their resource effectively to improve the performance
in the market (Amrutha, and Geetha, 2020). On the other hand, the organisation works for the
betterment of the society. This help them maintain sustainable performance in the market. The
opera house reduce the waste management effectively. Their planning and strategies are
improving their overall performance in the market. The main vision of the organisation is to
minimize the waste with the help of different strategies and sustainable policies. In 2016 they
had introduced a new waste management program. This help them to boost their waste recycle
rate and creates a better environment. The organisation has banned the use of the recyclable
items like plastic which is harmful for the environment.
To improve the communication and management of sustainability of the opera house.
 Management support the sustainability plan fully – The opera house management
support their sustainable plan effectively. This results in improving the overall
performance of the organisation. They achieve their goals and objectives effectively in
the market.
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 Ensuring that the staff is involved in the plans – The organisation has to elaborate the
sustainable plan effectively in order to carry out the operations smoothly. The employees
has make different ideas and innovative plans and convey them to the top management.
 Use of the technology – The technology could be used in the opera house to manage the
work more systematically. This helps to improve their overall performance in the market.
 Elimination of the Barriers – Sydney opera house has to eliminate different barriers
which helps them to become more successful in the market.
 Regular informative session to achieve different goals – The opera house has to
coordinate with the employees in order to achieve the goals and objectives. The main
process of the sessions must be clear and informative for the workers. The management
had to coordinate effectively which helps them to improve their overall performance in
the market.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has concluded that the Sydney opera house is implementing
strategies to improve their performance in the market. On the other hand, the organisation is
working for the betterment of the society which help them to achieve sustainable performance.
Along with that, there will be discussion about areas of improvement which help the company to
carry out the operations more effectively in the market. For further instance, there will be brief
discussion about various recommendations which the company could use to achieve the inherent
goals and objectives.
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REFERENCES
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