Management
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780133935813
Author: Stephen P. Robbins; Mary A. Coulter
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
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Chapter 8, Problem 8RDQ
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To determine:
The plans for an organization to achieve its objectives of becoming environmentally sustainable.
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It is very important for an organization to make efforts in the direction of serving the society in the ways possible. The organizations are expected to pay back in some form what they have acquired from the society and thus the objective of an organization to become environmentally sustainable is in the same direction. For the same, the organization has decided to reduce the usage of paper waste. The reduced usage of paper waste is essential to ensure eco-friendly practice in the organization given the fact that the production of papers requires the cutting of trees.
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