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Task 1

MacVille enterprise is Melbourne CBD café that was established in July 2009 by and managed by Seamus MacVille. Their mission is to provide a unique and compelling café experience that includes high quality, fair trade coffee, hot and cold gourmet food and beverages and consistent high level of fast, confident and friendly service. The business plan is developed to lead the organization to be one of the leaders in sustainability coffee and café within five-year time.

• Analyze the current policies and procedures

• Compare the shortfalls

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Q1 Answer

A list of MacVille’s policies and procedures can be found in Appendix C.

All these policies relate to the sustainable practices in term of environmental, economic and socio-political. Anti-discrimination and Workplace Health Management are some of the socio-political initiatives that have laws and legislation to be complied with by the organization. Risk management indicates areas where the economic could be impacted by injury or ineffective performance. These risks must be resolved to prevent any loss or damage to the business. However, the manager also notices there is not enough environment control for conserving resources. Therefore, some recommendations have been provided to the team to implement these inanities. These are comprised of:

• Reprogramming of all air-conditioning services

• The business plan

• The marketing plan

In this report, the most concern issue is to conserving the energy. The best practice of energy saving is provided by Bolton (Practical Sustainability, 2015):

• Examine the equipment: For the purpose of energy saving, the firm must determine which equipment can be disconnected at certain times. Furthermore, MacVille can also install humidity control systems in refrigerators to reduce the temperatures by 2 to 4 degrees.

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• These practices must be based on different programs such as fundamentals of sustainability and approaches to sustainability, business ready energy efficiency programs, or sustainable coffee programs.

• Relevant legislation and by laws that must be met are Sustainable Planning Act 2009, Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011, and Work health and Safety Act 2011.

example, one of the new team policies is to encouraging the last staff member leaving each day to turn the air-conditioning off. However, it is barely done since how the staffs know whenever he or she will be the last one exit the building. It must be a procedure for the staff to follow to prevent all conditioners is left running 24 hours per day. On the other hand, for the affirmative action policy, there is no section for the energy saving. It means the energy saving is the organizational responsibility not the employee’s.

Q4 Answer

• Photocopier and printers only for organizational use

Q5 Answer

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6. Write an interim report:

a. MacVille sustainability initiatives

8. Develop a revised

a. completed changes to existing policy documents b. outlines for recommended new policy documents. MacVille Operations – usage of equipment and services

4. Store manager must check the light system and turn them off after hours

5. Photocopier and printers only for organizational use

3. General rubbish is available for costumers and staffs

4. Bins are coded with colour and label

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Q11 Answer

• a description of the sustainability initiatives being implemented

• sustainability or environmental targets and/or key performance indicators, compared to current resource usage

• organizational costs for implementing the required changes

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printing

• Paper cost

electricity

• Report on the use of printing services

• Posters for encouraging consumers and staffs to follow the policies

• Emptying bins every

Implementation Plan

 Switching to compact fluorescent lights in the