ABC Company Sustainability Policy And Implementation Strategy

Issues Experienced

ABC Company is an IT solutions provider that was started in 2012. ABC is located in Sydney. The company is having a tremendous growth and doubling of the number of employees within a half an year. ABC Company is experiencing some challenges currently that are likely to affect the company negatively. The issues are as a result of the growing number of employees that seem mismanaged, office issues, employee issues and utilities issues.

Due to the increased number of employees, there is need to add more devices in the company. New locations will be leased and a plan need to be made on how the employees will be distributed. As the number of employees will increase, that will result to increase of the water and electricity bills. The other issue is that employees face loss of timesheet or could fail to submit the timesheets on timesheet. This results to employees missing their payments. This as a result of hardcopy submission of time sheets. The pay slip is done on paper and employees loss their pay slips. Another issue is that the computers used in the office have slow processing capabilities leading to the employees perform their duties slowly. Employees also work for long hours. The utilities in the office have to be used accordingly to be provide effectiveness and efficiency in the office.

Solution has to be laid out in order to solve the issues that are experienced in the company. A sustainability policy need to be developed for ABC Company. The sustainability policy will aim at meeting the important need I the company. It will not compromise the ability of future generations but will enable the future generation attain their requirements. Sustainability Policy helps in solving wasteful activities in a company (Dewan, 2013). 

To develop the sustainability policy, there is need to understand he strengths, gaps and obstacles experienced in ABC Company. Then there is need to identify the desired goal for the company. Then a set off actions to achieve the intended goals in the company. There are advantages and disadvantages that is likely to be face after the implementation of the sustainability policy. The obvious advantage of a sustainability policy is that aims at solving the issues being experienced in the company. The disadvantage is that it may take time for people to get used to the activities required and the implementation will also cost the company. 

Conclusion

The sustainability policy will help in solving most of the issues being experienced in the company. It will enhance effectiveness and efficiency in the company. The sustainability policy will take into consideration the existing organization policies and will aim to achieve the company’s best practice.

The company should implement the sustainability policy to ensure all the stakeholders’ needs are met. The IT solutions provided by ABC Company, will be more efficient and all the employees will perform the task efficiently. The sustainability policy should be communicated to the employees once it is developed.

ABC Company sustainability policy is committed in promoting sustainability among all the stakeholders. There is a major concern for the employees’ comfortability in their work environment (PBX, 2018). ABC Company aims to follow and promote good sustainability practice among all the stakeholders. This will helps improve the working environment for each and every person within and without the company (FAN and ARGHYROU, 2012).

Our sustainability policy is based on the following company’s principles. The objective is:

• To comply with the legislation and regulation.
• Minimizing the resource use.
• To integrate the sustainability consideration in all the business process
• To ensure that the employees are aware of the sustainability policy and there adhere to the policy.
• To ensure that resource in the office are used efficiently and effectively by all the people in the office.
• To ensure all employees and the stakeholders are following the practices on the sustainability policy and aim in improving the sustainability performance.

ABC Company faces a number of challenges and opportunities. The challenges have had a direct impact to the stakeholders and as a result there is need for the issues to be addressed. The issues arise with increase of employees, the office management practices and the utility management. 

In order to put the principles into practice, all are require to adopt to the following practices (Zwick, 2015):

• Reduce the energy consumption of the office by purchasing energy saving equipment.
• Buy more devices for the new employees. The machines purchased should have fast processes and should be convenient for the employees to use to perform their duties effectively.
• The new location to be leased should be convenient for the employees and communication among all employees should be efficient despite being in different locations.
• More work stations should be created to ensure the employees don’t share a desk.
• The management should provide an efficient way of providing the pay slips. Soft copy pay slips are more convenient as the employees’ privacy is enhanced.

• The IT administrator should ensure that all the computers have an efficient operating system. Computer bought should have appropriate processing speed. This will ensure the workstation are not slow to work with.
• The IT personnel should enhance the use of strong password in the system used. This will enhance security in the systems.
• Provide a software that will improve the submission of timesheets by the employees.

• The employees should not share there passwords with others to avoid fraud in the system and enhance privacy to their information.
• All the people in the office should switch of light if not necessary and use the water sparingly without wastage. This will reduce the electricity and water bills.
• All the activities should be performed as planned to avoid working for long hours against the planned time.

• The employees use the software provided by the IT department to submit their timesheets in softcopy.
• The timesheets should be submitted in time.
• The supervisors should ensure that they look at the timesheet sin respective department before submitted for approval.

The goals is to ensure that all the stakeholders involved in the company are aware of the sustainability policy developed in the company. The practices required have to take place immediately and effectively once the sustainability policy is confirmed by the management (Knowhownonprofit.org, 2018). The awareness of the sustainability policy to all people in the company will lead to realization of the issues affecting the company and all the people will make the required steps to solve the issues.

The audience involved include the stakeholders, the employees and the IT personnel involved in ABC Company (Maulidiyanti, 2018).

References

Dewan, H. (2013). A Set of Sustainability Indicators Related to High-priority Policy Issues. The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 8(1), pp.145-156.

FAN, J. and ARGHYROU, M. (2012). UK FISCAL POLICY SUSTAINABILITY, 1955-2006*. The Manchester School, p.no-no.

Knowhownonprofit.org. (2018). Developing a communications strategy — Knowhow Nonprofit. [online] Available at: https://knowhownonprofit.org/campaigns/communications/communications-strategy [Accessed 18 Oct. 2018].

Maulidiyanti, M. (2018). Communication Strategy for New Public Transport System (Case Study: PT Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta Communication Strategy). KnE Social Sciences, 3(11), p.531.

PBX, H. (2018). What is a Sustainability Policy and Why Your Company Needs One. [online] Press8 Telecom. Available at: https://www.press8.com/what-is-a-sustainability-policy-and-why-your-company-needs-one/ [Accessed 18 Oct. 2018].

Zwick, Y. (2015). The Sustainability Code – A New Approach Linking Economy and Society towards Sustainability. Global Policy, 6(4), pp.481-482.

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