The Performance Objectives Of Urbane Eco Ltd

Being environmentally friendly isn’t merely a trend. After thousands of years of using the earth’s resources, we have finally come to realize that we are destroying this beautiful gift we were honored with. Architects play an influential role in trying to preserve this gift by encouraging a multitude of strategies that can be more cost efficient in the long run, be more comfortable for its users, and most importantly, have a lower carbon footprint. Strategies can include drastic changes to heat and air systems, construction material selections, or even specific design details to the architecture of a building that would reduce the amount of energy it consumes.

This assignment has been completed as a group exercise. It is in two sections firstly Part A looking at “Managing team and individual performance” and Part B discussing “Meeting stakeholder and

The UK has thousands of beautiful period properties that were constructed from brick and timber with minimal insulation, and as a result produce high carbon emissions. As a government department will occupy the property it should serve as an example to the public of how such wonderful period properties can be made sustainable without impacting their historical and visual appearances. In order to make this property more energy efficient, sustainable and in accordance with government legislation, a number of improvements can be made.

Also known for product innovation, use of renewable materials (75%) and “smart” use of raw materials (90% recycled/reclaimed waste products in energy production) IKEA has promoted its growth and popularity primarily related to branded image. (http://businesscasestudies.co.uk)

The success of a company in meeting its objectives is having the ability to assess employees’ performance and how they compare to the organizations needs and goals. In order to ensure that everyone is working in the same direction of the organizational goals and mission it is important to set goals, objectives and to monitor employee performance. Performance management is the focus of achieving

Since the L.E.E.D. initiative began in 1998, the public has been under the belief that the better the certification, the more ecofriendly the building is, but there is new evidence to suggest that this might be wrong and new programs out there are raising the bar. Sam Roudman wrote “L.E.E.D.ing from Behind. A Green Building Racket Exposed” published in the New Republic, and he argues that even though the public believes that L.E.E.D. is encouraging more ecofriendly buildings, there is evidence that the top certified L.E.E.D. buildings, such as the Bank of America Building, are not the most ecofriendly due to the usage of energy once the building is fully occupied. Jeffery L. Davis wrote “Beyond L.E.E.D.: Living up to the Living Building

As building standards and code increasingly require more green materials in buildings, with no reversal in trend likely, these relationships will continue to become more important ultimately benefiting long term sales. Conversely, companies with poor green technology capital will likely suffer an attrition of customers as environmental building regulation changes.

We want to do our part to make the world a happy healthy place for generations to come. That’s why we take measures to reduce any negative impact on the environment and local cultures. We are industry leaders for recycling, reduction and reuse of business consumables. Between our eco-friendly, LEED-certified corporate headquarters

In this assignment I will be talking about two organisations which are Tesco’s and John Lewis. I will be discussing the different types of key theories and practises used in each of the business and how they have helped the business to become successful. The three key areas that this assignment will be based upon are Recruitment and Selection, Personality and finally Motivation.

The main reason for this report is to exhibit an understanding of Performance management. These days, organisations take diverse ways to deal with competitive advantage. Thus, there are a mixed bag of definitions for Performance Management. Performance management is a vital issue. It is based upon the human side of administration, and focuses on representatives as essential resources inside their organizations. As indicated by Price "Performance management is aimed at recruiting capable, flexible and committed people, managing and rewarding their performance and developing key competencies" (2007: 31).

The focus of this paper will be on investigating an organization, their performance management system and our recommendations for the future. Historically performance management is defined as evaluation a firm through metrics such as return on investment and economic value added. Our analysis will cover not only the financial performance of our chosen firm, but also their values in behaviors as well as their objectives. Thus, we will ascertain if the current system of performance management held by the firm is aligned with their objectives and appropriate for their situation.

Armstrong and Baron (2009) defined Performance management as ‘‘a process for establishing shared understanding about what is to be achieved, and an approach to managing and developing people in a way which increases the probability that it will be achieved in the short and longer term‘‘. They also highlighted that PM is a “strategy which relates to every activity of the organisation set in the context of its human resource policies, culture, style and communications systems. The nature of the strategy depends on the organisational context and can vary from organisation to organisation”. Therefore, a good performance management is about a quality of service toward employees and the main aim is to create a ‘culture‘ where a high standard performance is part of everyday life of the organisation.

Energy crisis and climate change have been causing the various problems of the environment. Concerning these issues. Nowadays, chain retailers increasingly formulate their own sustainable way or policy to make sure they could provide consumers and workers a comfortable environment to occupation and reduce energy consumption or carbon .The retailer sets stretching and realistic targets such as a 10% reduction in construction waste, trial new methods, materials and technology for estate.Specifically,this study focus on the relation between retail building envelope material, energy consumption and shopping behaviour.

The sustainable measures of Middle Eastern heritage buildings are limited, as well the international green rating system versions are still unsuitable and unable to adapt the local conditions and customs. Despite the Arab efforts to have their own rating systems, such as Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Kuwait (Komurlu, Ruveyda, Asli Pelin Gurgun, and David Arditi 2015, Omar Attallah, Sherif, Ahmad Senouci, Amr Kandil, and Hassan Al-Derham 2013), sustainability in most Middle Eastern countries is still deficient and facing many challenges presented by the lack of the cooperation and supports of the local Arabic organizations, and the dearth of metrics, gap of research, measurement field, monitoring systems, and environmental management and regulations (Komurlu, Ruveyda, David Arditi, and Asli Pelin Gurgun 2014). Despite Syrian government 's concern for the environment and sustainability, the situation of environmental research field is still weak (Haydar and Pediaditi 2010). Ministry of Local Administration in Syria directed towards the observance of environmental conditions within the updating of building codes for the cities, trying to raise awareness and training national cadres. The only Syrian thermal insulation code, was published by National Syrian Arab Standards and Metrology Organization, is still very limited (SASMO 2015). The process of promoting and developing on the built environment research field in Syria faces difficulties and obstacles; because of the weak linkages

4.1 Products & appliances: Equipments and appliances have been targeted by the most common measure of labelling and MEPS which is one of the cost effective way to penetrate more and more energy efficient appliances in the market. Despite lot of efforts there is still lot of potential in the existing building sector to make it more energy efficient and sustainable buildings. IPCC estimates that, by 2022, carbon-di-oxide emission from using energy efficient products and appliances in the buildings can help to reduce by 29% at no major cost (Levine, M., D. Ürge-Vorsatz, K. Blok, L. Geng, D. Harvey, S. Lang, G. Levermore, A. Mongameli Mehlwana, S. Mirasgedis, A. Novikova, J. Rilling, H. Yoshino 2007). Now, the need of the New Zealand government is to focus on the package of policies i.e. mandatory public procurement to improve the efficiency of this sector which requires strong leadership and demonstration by the government (Kelly 2012) . The mandatory procurement program need to be aligned with the MEPS as wells star rating programs to ensure the purchasing of efficient products in businesses and governments (OECD 2008). Suppliers, local and central government, and other stakeholders also need to be aligned to encourage efficient procurement in different sectors of the economy. New Zealand Businesses and governments which have already introduced efficient procurement, reported between 8% to 30% improvements than the baseline and now this needs to be replicated for all the