Integrating Sustainability In Operations Of An Organisation Requires

Abstract

Concisely, it is observed that merely improving the intra-organisational sustainability performance is not sustainable, because strategy alone is not sufficient. For this reason, corporate managers need to always support any strategy with adequate structures. Equally, they also need to integrate sustainability into all the strategic decisions and then introduce additional systems and rewards to formalise and support. 103 That being the case, Engert and Baumgartner affirm that bridging the gap between the formulation and implementation of the CS strategy is highly associated with six success factors – which are organisational structure, organisational culture, leadership, management control, employee motivation and qualifications, and communication.104 As such, in complement to right leadership and adequate communication, companies readily need the informal (soft) systems in addition to the formal (hard) systems for any successful implementation.105 That is why Ng et al. add that successful CS work entails working to balance all the three dimensions..