Assume that you have accepted a job in Corporate Governance and on your first day in the role you come across the Performance Ladder illustrated below.

Required:

Use the numbers presented to determine the following:

1. If we are currently recycling 30% of our waste, how would you explain the improvement using the ladder?
2. Our carbon emissions are down by 8% year on year. Explain how this is good or bad relative to our targets.
3. We made a creditable improvement in switching to Renewable Energy Sources. How will this affect our Score in that particular objective (i.e. from ...... to ......)?
4. Our consumption of fresh water did not reduce at all since last year. What is our score in that criterion?
5. Given the above information, calculate our current year's performance to find out to what extent we have been successful in improving, on balance.

Prioritized Strategic Objectives (SOS) Level accomplished SO 1 = SO 2 = SO 3 = SO 4 = e.g recycle 60% of e.g. reduce carbon e.g. switch to 50% e.g reduce fresh colid waste emissions by 13% renewable energy water consumption sources by 60% Weighting /10: 1.5 4.0 3.0 1.5 Superlative level of 10 60% 15% 50% 60% accomplishment Distinctive improvement 9 50% 14% 45% 54% Creditable improvement S 40% 13% 40% 48% Significant improvement 7 30% 12% 35% 42% Acceptable 20% 11% 28% 36% improvement 6 No 5 10% 10% 22% 30% improvement A little worse 4 9% 16% 24% than last year Unacceptable worse than last 3 8% 8% 12% 18% year Highly unacceptable 2 7% 7% 8% 12% Inexcusable poor 6% 5% 4% 6% performance Totally despicable 0 Less than 5% Less than 5% 0% 0% performance Table 1: A Conceptual Framework for the Monitoring of Business Sustainability