Decision making and environmental responsibility

One of the challenging topics managers face today is the decision making in product and service design that significantly affect the utilization of materials both in short and long term recyclability. You are a manager of the shipping department of a large manufacturing company, and you are to study the reduction in the wastage of materials and energy, as well as the external environment impact of your packaging policies.

• Goal:identify waste minimization options for PACKAGING in your company
• Technique:show your plans and your decision making points that you would like to propose
• Hints:some of the concepts you need to identify: impact on environment, elimination of resources of waste, reduction, re-usage, in order to identify the decisions making in each decision area concept.

As you are analyzing, point out one of themanagerial thinking trapsthat you can potentially fell into and what would you do to avoid them.