Organizational Sustainability Functions, Responsibilities, and Authorities
What are the functions, responsibilities, and authorities regarding sustainability within an organization?
An organization’s top leader must ensure that responsibilities and authorities for relevant roles are assigned, communicated, and understood. It is important that the sustainability program aligns with the organization’s governance.
Responsibilities and Authorities for the Sustainability Function
A top leader must assign responsibility for the following activities:
- Ensuring the establishment of risk management and sustainability processes, referenced or benchmarked against organizational best practices;
- Ensuring that processes effectively deliver the intended results;
- Reporting on the performance of risk management and sustainability processes;
- Reporting on improvement opportunities and the need for change and/or innovation;
- Ensuring the promotion of risk management and sustainability throughout the organization;
- Safeguarding the integrity of risk management and sustainability processes, especially when changes are planned and implemented within the organization.
It is important to have a process focus for risk management and sustainability that goes beyond merely preparing a sustainability report. The focus should be on identifying processes and operations that need to be controlled to maintain and improve the organization’s risk management and sustainability performance. Finally, the role of the sustainability manager in supporting the top leader and the organization’s sustainability program must be clearly articulated for all organizational stakeholders.
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This article on organizational sustainability was written by Dr. Bob Pojasek, from VCARE Academy.
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