Human Sustainability Theme Exposition
BMO3327: Organizational Change and Development
Assessment 4: Individual Theme Exposition Essay
Theme:
Human Sustainability
Student: Jana Moniez
Student No: s3885730
Seminar: Tuesday's 2-5
Coach: Angela Bowles
Human sustainability is imperative to the success of organizational change and development, according to Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn (2007) 'Building of knowledge systems, social capital and other strategies designed to increase and sustain human capability are vital.' This is due to the fact that employees spend at least half their life in the workforce; therefore they are searching for work that is meaningful and where they can thrive as this increases productivity and has follow on effects to their home life. (Spreitzer, Porath and Gibson 2012).
According to Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn (2007) sustainability phase model there are six phases to achieving sustainability: Rejection, Non-Responsiveness,Compliance, Efficiency, Strategic Pro activity and the Sustaining Corporation. The model is a tool designed to help an organization assess where it is at in terms of human and ecological sustainability and to charter a course through the phases to achieve its goals. For the purpose of this essay I will be looking at the phase of efficiency in particular and how an organization can change integrating human and ecological-efficiency into cost cutting as a means of reaching efficiency. As according to research by Benn and Dunphy (2003)
'The development by the organization of the human capabilities and skills that enable more consistent compliance, the implementation of eco-efficiency measures and forward planning for sustainability. In other words, we argue that the concepts of human and ecological sustainability need to be merged.'
In the traditional sense efficiency can be defined as 'maximize output while minimizing the input - of people, machines andtime.' (Smith and Dunphy 2003)
Assessment 4: Individual Theme Exposition Essay
Theme:
Human Sustainability
Student: Jana Moniez
Student No: s3885730
Seminar: Tuesday's 2-5
Coach: Angela Bowles
Human sustainability is imperative to the success of organizational change and development, according to Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn (2007) 'Building of knowledge systems, social capital and other strategies designed to increase and sustain human capability are vital.' This is due to the fact that employees spend at least half their life in the workforce; therefore they are searching for work that is meaningful and where they can thrive as this increases productivity and has follow on effects to their home life. (Spreitzer, Porath and Gibson 2012).
According to Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn (2007) sustainability phase model there are six phases to achieving sustainability: Rejection, Non-Responsiveness,Compliance, Efficiency, Strategic Pro activity and the Sustaining Corporation. The model is a tool designed to help an organization assess where it is at in terms of human and ecological sustainability and to charter a course through the phases to achieve its goals. For the purpose of this essay I will be looking at the phase of efficiency in particular and how an organization can change integrating human and ecological-efficiency into cost cutting as a means of reaching efficiency. As according to research by Benn and Dunphy (2003)
'The development by the organization of the human capabilities and skills that enable more consistent compliance, the implementation of eco-efficiency measures and forward planning for sustainability. In other words, we argue that the concepts of human and ecological sustainability need to be merged.'
In the traditional sense efficiency can be defined as 'maximize output while minimizing the input - of people, machines andtime.' (Smith and Dunphy 2003)
Bibliography: Ballard, D. (2005). Using learning responses to promote change for sustainable development.,Action Research, 3(2). Benn, S., &Dunphy, D. (2003). Sustainability and Social Science: Roundtable Proceedings Retrieved 5 January 2011, from http://www.minerals.csiro.au/sd/pubs/NOTES%20ON%20AUTHORS.pdf Branson, R 2011, 'Screw Business as Usual ' Random House Group, Uk Griffiths, A., &Petrick, J. (2001). Corporate architectures for sustainability. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 21(12), 1573-1585.