Team 5 PresentationOwen, Rushil, Josh, Xiaohan, Jerry.docx

Team 5 Presentation
Owen, Rushil, Josh, Xiaohan, Jerry
Problem
Solution
Lack of organization in the Office of Sustainability
Develop leadership within the Office of Sustainability
Rationale For Choice
Missing Director of Sustainability
Org Chart: No position
Operations and Resilience

Cause
Neglect
Org Chart structure
Potential of reporting to CFO
Effects
Public Opinion
Student faith
Difficult to achieve goals
Example: Car pool forum
STARS Rating : Expired
Website structure, shows to be outdated
Our rationale for coming to the conclusion that RRU is missing
structure in the Office of Sustainability is due to the
confirmation from the HR department providing the schools
organization chart, and their recognition that there is no current
individual in that role.
Also they gave us confirmation that the department is overseen
by the Operations and Resilience Office. This tell us that

sustainability is being implemented by a department that is
already trying to operate they school as a whole, and thus
leaving obvious time restraints to focus on RRU sustainability.
We determined that the causes for this lack of leadership is due
to neglect, and possibly because of the structure that the org
chart. Where there is no sitting sustainability position currently.
Effects of this, could cause the school to obtain a negative
public image. Student body could lose faith in the legitimacy of
their seriousness towards sustainability. And goals will be more
difficult to achieve without a leader driving the bus.
And example would be the schools failure to meet their own
goal of achieving a carpool forum by 2016. It appears they
attempted but if you try and open up the link it give you “page
not found error”.
Additionally while reviewing the schools website we found it to
lack structure when trying to obtain information from their
sustainability page, as its videos and pictures were outdated and
wouldn’t load. And when you are to click on the ”Office of
Sustainability“ link, it opens up a article about “how to change
the Bee’s, and to BEE the change”
References
Royal Roads University. (2015). Sustainability Plan 2015-2020.
Office of Sustainability. Retrieved from

http://media.royalroads.ca/media/marketing/viewbooks/2015/sus
tainability-plan/mobile/index.html#p=14
Royal Roads University. (2019) Organizational chart. Human
Resource Department
RRU Organizational Chart
At RRU There is no specific sustainability department/office,
only environmental officer which has nothing to do with
sustainability. There is no one reporting to VP or President,
which as we know is important to making an impact.
Based on this, our recommendation for hiring a program head is
changing the structure of the RRU organizational chart to make
sustainability a bigger priority, maximizing its effectiveness
and our impact as a school.
References
Resource Department

References
References

References
STARS. (2019). The Sustainability tracking, assessment and
rating system. Retrieved from
https://reports.aashe.org/institutions/royal-roads-university-
bc/report/2014-05-26/
Alternatives
Build a committee made up of student body.
OR
Current manager/officer assumes the role in addition to their
department.
OR
Hiring a senior department head.

Thank you owen.
Here are three alternatives which can better structure the Office
of Sustainability.
Our first alternative would be to appoint a student body
committee, to support the needs of RRUs sustainability
program.
Second option is for one current manager to additionally assume
the role of sustainability head.
The last option is to hiring a full time candidate who specializes
in sustainability who can help to analyse the program and give a
full time leadership.
Now xiaohan will tell you which is the best alternative choice.
Decision Matrix Alternatives Decision
Criteria Effectiveness
Hours Per Month
Timing to Implement
Public Opinion
Funding Needed
Student/Manager
CommitteeCurrent Manager also Assumes the Role Hiring
Senior Department Head
Undesirable Satisfactory
Desirable

Take hiring program head/team as a example. To compare with
other two choice, through decision matrix. it does need more $
cause... . however it gonna take short time to (compare). 4.
认可度高. Next based on what we got from decision matrix, Josh
will provide some recommendation
Recommendation
Appoint a sustainability department head.
Restructure of organization chart to appoint senior role
Direct communication with President/VP
Appointing a sustainability office and leader will have the
biggest impact towards sustainability. Through this, we must

restructure the current sustainability office to make it more of a
priority. In doing so, we must create a role on the organizational
chart that directly communicates to the top of the chain.
Speaker notes: We looked into an example of an institute that is
a leader in sustainability, and compared the organisation chart
of in this case ETH Zurich, to our organizational chart at RRU.
References
Organisation Chart. (2019, October). Eidgenössische
Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved from
https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/organisation.html.

As an example, ETH Zurich has a dedicated sustainability
office. They also have senior role as VP for sustainability who
reports to the president. This direct communication proves that
the department is more of a priority towards sustainability and
contributes to their success as a leader in sustainable institutes.
This is how RRU should structure their organizational chart in
terms of adding a Sustainability Office/leader. A dedicated
sustainability department/role that directly communicates with
president/VP.
References
Rationale, Including Research & Analysis
Restructure of Org Charts
Leadership to inspire
Flow of information

Green Revolving Fund
Josh: Restructuer of org charts will prove to allow our school to
make a bigger impact in terms of sustainability
Owen: Greta Thunberg was able to move four million people
two weeks. With leadership we believe this communication
would be properly structured, just how we saw a strong leader
like Greta Thunburge communicate a message around the world
two weeks ago.
Rushil: According to ingram’s research,he has shown that a
organizational chart can transfer information between the
organization with ease
Jerry: Hiring a program head is going to require the most
funding from the RRU, so we recommend a Green Revolving
Fund to support the financials.
References

Climate protest: Marches worldwide against global warming.
(2019, September 20). BBC News. Retrieved from
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49777279
Ingram. D (2019), Why Is Organizational Structure
Important?.www.smallbusiness.chron.com, Retrieved URL-
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/organizational-structure-
important-3793.html.
J.E., Adriana, R.B. (2010). Solving the sustainability
implementation challenge. Science direct. Retrieved from
https://www-emerald-
com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSHE-
07-2012-0062/full/html
John, M., Beth, S. (March, 2015). Barriers to energy efficiency
and the uptake of green revolving funds in Canadian
universities. Emerald insight. Retrieved from https://www-
sciencedirect-
com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca/science/article/pii/S00902616100005
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Implementation Plan
Restructure Organization Chart (1 month)
Faculty assess required skills needed from the applicant (1
week)
Salary and budget decision (2 weeks)

Hiring Process (3 months)
Structure implementation plan for sustainability office (1
month)
Let’s move on 5 steps of implementation plan. First of all, RRU
needs restructure organization chart because there is a new
department come in and each of department can report to
president directly if it consider as necessary. Then, decide what
kind of talents RRU needs because they don’t really need a drug
dealer but someone good at leadership. Thirdly, salary decision
would be the duty of HR department. After that, RRU can start
looking for the one they need. Finally, RRU needs provide
effective strategies to support new department achieve their
goals.
Conclusion
Problem-lack of leadership
Decision Matrix-points us to the hiring of a Officer
Rationale-shows us that leadership will prevail the organization
Our 5 step plan, will from start to finish, obtain these goals we
believe.

Do you believe a corporation would be serious about marketing
if they were without a Director of Marketing.
We start by examining the problem and found they were not
making sustainability a top priority. Then when we look at our
decision matrix to seek out the best alternative, we found
ourselves recommending the hiring of a full time sustainability
head, while at the same time restructuring the organizational
chart. Before we go we would like to leave you with a thought;
would you expect a corporation to be serious in their marketing
department if they did not have a a director of marketing or
marketing manager.
References
Climate protest: Marches worldwide against global warming.
(2019, September 20). BBC News. Retrieved from
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49777279

Ingram, D. (2019). Why Is Organizational Structure Important?.
Chron. Retrieved from
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/organizational-structure-
important-3793.html.
J.E., Adriana, R.B. (2010). Solving the sustainability
implementation challenge. Science direct. Retrieved from
https://www-emerald-
com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSHE-
07-2012-0062/full/html
John, M., Beth, S. (March, 2015). Barriers to energy efficiency
and the uptake of green revolving funds in Canadian
universities. Emerald insight. Retrieved from https://www-
sciencedirect-
com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca/science/article/pii/S00902616100005

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Rake, M., & Grayson, D. (2009). Embedding corporate
responsibility and sustainability - everybody's business.
Corporate Governance, 9(4), 395-399.
doi:10.1108/14720700910984945
Resource Department
STARS. (2019). The Sustainability tracking, assessment and
rating system. Retrieved from
https://reports.aashe.org/institutions/royal-roads-university-
bc/report/2014-05-26/

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