{"id":11765,"date":"2021-11-16T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2021-11-16T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:35:52","slug":"sustainability-nachhaltig-wirtschaften-und-arbeiten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/en\/management\/2021-11-16\/sustainability-nachhaltig-wirtschaften-und-arbeiten\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability: Doing business and working sustainably"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The term \"sustainability\" is on everyone's lips. The business world needs to address this issue even more. (Image: Pixabay.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the sustainability debate, a topic has become the central driver that only a few years ago played a rather marginal role in the field of environmental protection: climate change. And because the consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly tangible worldwide, you don't have to be a prophet to predict: In the coming years, climate change will be seen by a growing proportion of the population as a massive threat to human life. And this, in turn, will increasingly force politicians to intervene in a regulatory manner.<\/p>\n

Climate change alters the economic environment<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is therefore foreseeable: Business will be confronted with increasingly stringent requirements in the area of environmental and climate protection. The purchasing behavior of customers. will also change. In addition, more and more top performers - i.e. people on whose know-how and skills companies depend - will ask their employer to what extent the latter works in a climate- and environmentally friendly way and contributes to the sustainable development of our society.<\/p>\n

The problem here is: In the social discourse, it is disputed what is meant by \"sustainable development\" and how this goal can be achieved. For this reason, companies dealing with the issue of sustainability should first ask themselves what these terms actually mean to them and establish a commitment to this.<\/p>\n

Become aware of your own driving forces <\/strong><\/h2>\n

In doing so, decision-makers must be aware that their organization is embedded in an environment that has specific expectations of it; moreover, that the expectations of the various stakeholders such as customers, employees, suppliers, capital and legislators are changing and often diverge. For only if a company knows the various expectations can it decide: Which ones do we want to, can we, and must we respond to?<\/p>\n

This in turn requires clarification of the question: Why do we concern ourselves with the topic at all? Are we doing this out of our own intrinsic motivation - for example, because we ourselves are convinced that sustainable management and operation is necessary for survival? Or is the opposite the case? Do we deal with it primarily because we are compelled to do so - for example<\/p>\n