ISM AND ISEG MBA - Développement durable

In which domain are they ready to react?
Domain Result
Respect of waste material recuperation procedures 100%
Care in the manipulation and storage of potentially dangerous products 89%
Supervision of processes which could have a negative impact in case of
malfunction (sewage plant, central heating, painting room, drying oven…) 50%
Environmental training 36%
Supervision of energy economy 84%
An interesting point emerges from these questions. Each employee wants and needs to react as an
individual, and will naturally react to those actions having a direct effect on his life. It is
remarkable that the questions which return the greatest percentages are those concerning the
easiest actions to achieve, those requiring the smallest investment and the least sacrifices. Waste
material recuperation is the best example that includes all these parameters. There is no cost, is
easy to do, and neither requires very much effort nor much sacrifice. The spin off from
employees thinking about waste material recuperation at work, is that they will go home still
thinking in this vein about recuperation in their private lives.
There is a similar principle to be learned for the supervision of energy economy.
In relation to the supervision of processes having a potentially negative impact, it is noted that
employees want to be engaged in the protection of the environment. In these cases, the potential
effect of not properly protecting the environment might lead to serious consequences in their
future personal lives.
Therefore, employees become particularly interested in environmental measures, provided that
personal sacrifice is not too great, and when they think that their personal safety is threatened.
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