Deck 16: Working in an Organization

Question 1

While important for other reasons, the governance of an organization has little impact on the effectiveness of sustainability programs.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Organizations with traditional linear hierarchies will not be able to plan sustainability initiatives.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

To be effective, all members of sustainability teams should be managers and supervisors.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Sustainability coordinators should be prepared to spend most of their time working alone.

Question 5

The first step in sustainability planning is to begin taking action immediately so that people become enthused.

Question 6

A vision statement should describe what kinds of damage an organization intends to avoid.

Question 7

People doing scenario planning construct scenarios for several plausible futures.

Question 8

An indicator report should be prepared at the beginning of a project and does not need to be repeated thereafter.

Question 9

Before teams select sustainability projects they should agree what criteria will be used in selection.

Question 10

A business case for sustainability includes an assessment of opportunities and risks.

Question 11

The triple bottom line of sustainability can be used as a reporting framework.

Question 12

Nonlinear, shared-governance systems

A) appeared with the production lines of the Industrial Revolution
B) feature structures known as silos
C) are also known as command and control
D) are necessary in organizations with cradle-to-cradle systems

Question 13

Diffusion of Innvoations theory shows that

A) teams of organizational leaders are responsible for innovation
B) creative individuals, at first working alone, are responsible for innovation
C) critical mass is reached after about 16 percent of people adopt an innovation
D) critical mass is reached after about 50 percent of people adopt an innovation

Question 14

An elevator speech is

A) An inspirational speech
B) A short summary
C) A detailed explanation
D) Designed to elicit questions from an audience