A Personal Reflection Of Business And Sustainable Development

Throughout this “Business and sustainable development” course, I am honored to have the opportunity to attend different guest speakers’ lectures and listen to them sharing about their past experiences as well as sharing their personal opinions about sustainable development. The guest speakers are from non-profit aid organization, both public and private sectors, as well as NGOs. Some of the main messages that I learned from these lectures include being innovative, listen and obtain advices from experts and other parties in order to make changes and raise awareness of different parties. Effective learning involves engaging more in the organization. It is also important to learn from the previous mistake, dare to be different and set up long

They hope to build a better quality of life and living environment in a safe and sustainable manner. For example, Gammon Construction Limited mentioned that safety always comes as a priority for their company and they will minimize environmental impacts (such as carbon footprints) from their operations, and they also spent a lot of money on their company’s safety equipments and provided trainings for their employees. On the other hand, Shangri-La Hotel said their core value is to serve their people and benefit the environment. The CLP also aims to become a responsible energy provider in the Asia-Pacific region by producing fewer Environmental impacts to create value for shareholders, employees and the wider

Their mission is to improve customers’ satisfaction by offering customers best quality products and services. There are always challenges when working towards sustainability, such as the initial costs and operating costs. However, according to the guests speakers, they also have the social responsibility to work towards sustainability and protect the environment. Personally, I think Ethos International has done a marvelous job towards Sustainability and showing their care of their employees by providing them with trainings and help increase their passion towards their jobs. According to the presenter, Iris Chow, the company paid high attention on their worker’s job performance and they believe that their business can be successful through people. They provide 70% on-job trainings for their employees as they strongly believe that by increasing the employee's ability can help meet current and future job requirements and perform at higher levels, as well as enhancing their motivations. Employee’s performance highly influence the company’s future. Besides Ethos International, East Hotel (Swire) and Shangri-La Hotel also highly focuses on their employees’ well being as well as raising their concept about sustainability at the same time. Pat Gallardo-Dwyer mentioned that the staffs at Shangri-La Hotel (such as the