Ethics And Sustainability Of The Skidmore College Honor Code

HONOR CODE: I have not witnessed any wrong doing nor have I personally violated any condition of the Skidmore College Honor Code while taking this examination. I attended a meeting last week with other faculty members. One of them let fly her/his opinion that â€Å"sustainability does not exist† or is, at best, a â€Å"bankrupt† notion that is basically a form of â€Å"greenwashing† and that sustainable development was a â€Å"joke.† Hmmm . . . . Please comment on that assertion. In the process, discuss the â€Å"big idea† of sustainable development, and more generally the concept of sustainability as applied to individual businesses. For that matter, what is a â€Å"sustainable enterprise?† Can being â€Å"sustainable† be good for business? Sustainability has achieved a more ecological tone in the past few decades in terms of a business model, but it originally derives from the concept that a business is successful due to the interconnected areas of economics, culture and ecology. Sustainability is now becoming a somewhat fad and thus it is understandable that it could be misconstrued by some as a form of â€Å"greenwashing†. Greenwashing is the idea that a company markets their â€Å"green† or environmentally friendly changes in policy and values, despite no actual concrete changes in these areas, for example some argue that Fiji Water greenwasher in terms of their marketing as an environmentally friendly water company despite their little effort to actually go carbon-neutral. Many companies are seeing theShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesBounded Rationality, and Intuition 175 †¢ Common Biases and Errors in Decision Making 177 Influences on Decision Making: Individual Differences and Organizational Constraints 184 Individual Differences 184 †¢ Organizational Constraints 186 What About Ethics in Decision Making? 187 Three Ethical Decision Criteria 187 †¢ Improving Creativity in Decision Making 188 Summary and Implica tions for Managers 190 S A S A S A L L L Self-Assessment Library What Are My Gender Role Perceptions? 166 glOBalization