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Management for sustainability

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Paper Instructions;

In Class we were given this prompt to do:

"This is a personal exercise in sustainability awareness.  You are going to think of 12 places you can make your life a bit more sustainable, and try to do them at least for 2 weeks.  Environmental sustainability changes (4) are easy; carpooling, turning of lights, unplugging computers, not idling your car unnecessarily, public transport, better recycling, choosing the second hand alternative,  organic food, food sourcing for local (low transport costs) over imported, and so on.  Some of these also point to economic sustainability because they can also save you money (water bill, electric bill, gasoline, if you pay for these), but you may wish to focus on other economic sustainability issues as well. No double dipping.

Even taking new moves to get more exercise could count as economic sustainability because improved health translates into increased earning potential. Improving financial literacy, changing where you have your money, spending less, making more, saving, buying second hand, all sustains you economically. 

Last is social sustainability; maybe follow up on some networking that may serve you later, or help a neighbor, assist another student with homework or be a good listener, make new or renew contacts on LinkedIn or Facebook (but you must stay why these links enhance social sustainability) or investigate and comment on a company's efforts to be socially responsible (most big companies have a social responsibility desk).  You get the picture.  Think outside the box and lets see who can do the best job!  Make sure you can actually do these things you list, because later you will be doing them. You are allowed one change"

At a basic level, management has three elements (page 28):  Inputs, Process, and Output.  Input would be the goals embraced in 12 changes, and the resources one can marshal to do so (example; car-pooling needs social networks), then there is the process whereby the changes are made, always a balance of effectiveness and efficiency (e.g. the case of shower time; it must be sufficient to effectively wash the body parts in question, while seeking efficiency through not wasting water); then, based in the tension between effectiveness (got clean) and efficiency (saved water) is PERFORMANCE,  how well the management process worked.  Each manager judges the other's performance and has their performance judged too.  But the strong assessment of the other, as their manager, looks at all of this.  Were the goals realistic and well thought out?  Were the person's resources adequate to achieve the goal?  How did they deal with the tension between efficiency and effectiveness?  How did both of these and the goals/resources lead to the particular outcome on the 12 points?  Would other goals have resulted in better outcomes?  Are some outcomes more significant for the person, for the immediate community, for the planet than others?  What can the person under your management learn from this, and you?  What would make some of these 12 doable for more than a week or two--to be truly sustainable?  How has it built "social capital" or other forms of value that are lasting, should they be kept up over time?  What, in short, would you as a manager recommend be changed in your employee's approach to the exercise, to get the best outcome?

your task is to reflect on my friends work of the dirty dozen.Your job is to read my friends dirty dozen and reflect on it base on these question below. the prompt above was just for your understanding on what is the dirty dozen. Please be honest of my friends work if it is bad just say its bad and how can they improve on it. i will attach my friends dirty dozen and please reflect on it.Some of his dirty dozen might not make sense and you have to state it and give a reason why it doesn't make sense or if it is wrong. please reflect on all 12

The questions are:

Were the goals realistic and well thought out?
  Were the person's resources adequate to achieve the goal? 
How did they deal with the tension between efficiency and effectiveness? 
How did both of these and the goals/resources lead to the particular outcome on the 12 points?  
Would other goals have resulted in better outcomes?  
Are some outcomes more significant for the person, for the immediate community, for the planet than others?
  What can the person under your management learn from this, and you?  
What would make some of these 12 doable for more than a week or two--to be truly sustainable?
  How has it built "social capital" or other forms of value that are lasting, should they be kept up over time? 
What, in short, would you as a manager recommend be changed in your employee's approach to the exercise, to get the best outcome?

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