Sustainable Management In Human Resources

Sustainable Management in Sustainable Management in Human ResourcesHuman Resources

Lukas Ritzel @ IMI 2008

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• Leaders > Misleading• Web of Life• We ARE nature• Living on current

sunlight vs ...• Environmental refugees• Destruction of

ecosystems .. Name• Problem is the way we

are thinking

• From well having to well ..

• The role of media• Thread is as well a

chance• Sustainable design• Technology is there,

what it needs is a ...• Role of individuals

Knowing about all those problems

• I guess / hope you must ask yourself why don’t we solve all those problems

• So let us first brainstorm on WHICH problems would you solve FIRST?

• By the way WHO in this movie talks about those issues? .. And what could be the essential problem in this

What is sustainable development

• Meeting the needs of people today BUT keep the future in your mind– Broad view on social, environmental, economical

outcomes– Long term perspective– Inclusive approach

Topics concerned

Top Top 33 critical critical HRHR challenges challenges

Big Question

• How do those 2 match

• Critical top 3 challenges vs.

• How to integrate those topics for– Programs for recruitment– Staff development– How to bring critical issues top attention of senior

management

Where would you want to work

• Google Headquarter, HRM salary 6000usd

• Fur Factory, HRM salary 6500usd

• Esso Corp., HRM salary 7000usd

Recruit and retain top talents

What is society expecting from a business?

• Applicants pre-assess the social and environmental performance of companies

People matter

• Important competencies are more and more related to management of relationships– Ability to network– Ability to partner– Ability to innovate

• Ability to support company on a long run

As one HR manager recently said:

• A sustainable development mindset pushes us to do better – it has encouraged a focus on performance, a consistent eagerness to improve and continual learning

Exercise

• What could your future company do?

•Ideas!Ideas!

Create incentives for exceptional performance

• What rewards can motivate employees?

Align values

• Company and employee values must be aligned– Company working ethically– Provide work-life balance– Demonstrates concern for health– Demonstrates concern for safety

> Leads to staff morale and commitment increase

Sources of employee motivation

Employee targets and incentives

• Must be aligned with the goal of sustainable development– Strengthen reputation– Enhance organisational learning– Boost operational efficiency

• But for this employees must see those objectives reflected in their targets/ rewards– Performance appraisal

QQ• What are the right measures and indicators to What are the right measures and indicators to

assess the success of individuals and teams in assess the success of individuals and teams in contributing to sustainable development?contributing to sustainable development?

QQ• How can you use the knowledge of the HR How can you use the knowledge of the HR

department – in particular, your department – in particular, your understanding of competencies and working understanding of competencies and working practices across the organization – to practices across the organization – to encourage managers to incorporate social and encourage managers to incorporate social and environmental issues in business?environmental issues in business?

Enhance critical competencies

• Enhance employees skills is essential to survival

• The question is how– Formal training (traditional)– Mentoring– Peer-to-peer learning– Involvement in community programmes (more

and more)

QQ• Will training in sustainable development help Will training in sustainable development help

to deliver the innovation and learning your to deliver the innovation and learning your company needs to improve performance in company needs to improve performance in the long-run, as well as deliver immediate the long-run, as well as deliver immediate business objectives?business objectives?

Besides...

Spread the news

• Sustainable development knowledge and skills should be spread widely across the organisation using a variety of approaches

• Therefore– Values and strategies must be understood by as

many employees as possible– It needs to become part of the business model– Integrated across all divisions and functions

Guidance for the sustainableGuidance for the sustainabledevelopment managerdevelopment manager

• Sustainable development enters business Sustainable development enters business mainstreammainstream

• Responsibility for managing social and Responsibility for managing social and environmental issues slowly shiftenvironmental issues slowly shift

• Corporate fringe to an important Corporate fringe to an important business function.business function.

Coming back to rules and regulationsComing back to rules and regulations

• What rules and regulations would you What rules and regulations would you yourself add on being the manager of a hotel yourself add on being the manager of a hotel or restaurant to manage your business, your or restaurant to manage your business, your people and stakeholder in a sustainable people and stakeholder in a sustainable manner and make therefore ALL feel better manner and make therefore ALL feel better and contribute to a better futureand contribute to a better future

• Add on to your already existing slides and Add on to your already existing slides and send to me one by onesend to me one by one

ReferencesReferences

• The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (www.wbcsd.org)

• HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme (www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/bep)

• The University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (www.cpi.cam.ac.uk)