Sustainable Businesses enterprise tries to have a minimal negative impact on the global, local or communal environment. Such organizations participate in environmental friendly activities ad make sure that their processes, products, manufacturing and other operations are not causing any negative effect on the environment.

Companies can also promote and maintain sustainability by changing or encouraging a certain type of employee behavior through rewards possibly. This article in the guardian talks more about this method and gives examples of Sony which has launched a new scheme to promote green behaviour. This encourages employees to take steps ranging from eliminating their in-office trashcan to turning on the energy-saving settings on their computer and based on their actions they receive ” Sony bucks”.Eric Johnson, who runs the program for Sony Electronics, stated: “small behavior changes add up to big savings, especially when multiplied across a large organization..(The guardian, Stevens)

Also, another way to do this is by Employee transportation. Google’s employee shuttles are an effective way of promoting sustainability. This reduces the number of roads on the car by a huge number, thus reducing pollution and traffic. Other large tech companies in
the San Francisco area, including Yahoo!, eBay, and Apple, have also started shuttle programs in response to Google’s success.

(Image from google employee Kaushik  http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/10-insights-from-11-months-of-working-at-google/)

Therefore, taking these small business decisions can really help society as a whole and also make businesses more sustainable.

This video talks about promoting sustainability through employee engagement

How Should Organizations Promote Sustainably Employee Engagement?

Cited :

Susan Hunt Stevens: ://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/employee-engagement-sustainability-strategy

http://mobile.mit.edu/connected-urban-development/files/cisco/google_employee.pdf