This question is based around a ‘sustainability report’ of an organisation of your choice. You can choose any organisation you wish that produces a sustainability report. It can be an organisation you work for, or are familiar with, or is new to you and you would like to understand more about them. Read through this TMA first and chose a report that will enable you to answer all the questions, i.e. it should include economic, social and environmental dimensions, internal and external stakeholders, and outline sustainability issues and actions.
a.Sustainability should cover environmental, social and economic issues. From your chosen sustainability report, give one example of where the organisation has taken, or is taking, action to address each of these issues. Comment on how straightforward it was to categorise your examples.
(Note: your answer should include the name of your chosen organisation and report title.)
(5 marks)
b.From your chosen sustainability report, identify the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders.
(4 marks)
c.Identify one key message from your chosen report for each of the following perspectives:
i.the organisation’s ‘sustainability manager’
ii.an internal stakeholder (and name the type of stakeholder)
iii.an external stakeholder (and name the type of stakeholder).(3 marks)
d.Use the ranking method in Block 3 to rank all the stakeholders identified in part (b). Briefly explain which of these stakeholders you consider to be the key stakeholders.
(20 marks)
e.Choose three stakeholders from your answer to part (d), at least two of which must be key stakeholders.
Write a short message for each of your chosen stakeholders to communicate each of the three sustainability issues: environmental, social and economic. What associated actions might you expect these stakeholders to take?
(8 marks)
