Sustainable City Design and Policy Impacts: Mental, Health, Productivity, and Quality of Life
College
Muma College of Business
Mentor Information
Michael Spencer
Description
As corporations grow larger and consolidate more assets, both human and material, the importance of sustainability in workplace efforts has never been greater. Firms have excised impact over their communities and those employed by said firms, making decisions regarding green operations, triple bottom line considerations, and other sustainable business practices highly needed for the continued operation of firms. As these practices are costly both in the monetary and temporal sense of reality, many firms tend to place sustainability lower on the list of importance as compared to concepts such as productivity or profitability. Based on surveys and interviews with firms in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, a relationship between sustainability efforts and importance given to these efforts and employee productivity was found. Results were paired with data regarding organizational identification to attempt to determine the connection between employees, employers, and upper level sustainability efforts in an attempt to best determine how sustainability can be a net positive for businesses beyond moral and ethical means.
Sustainable City Design and Policy Impacts: Mental, Health, Productivity, and Quality of Life
As corporations grow larger and consolidate more assets, both human and material, the importance of sustainability in workplace efforts has never been greater. Firms have excised impact over their communities and those employed by said firms, making decisions regarding green operations, triple bottom line considerations, and other sustainable business practices highly needed for the continued operation of firms. As these practices are costly both in the monetary and temporal sense of reality, many firms tend to place sustainability lower on the list of importance as compared to concepts such as productivity or profitability. Based on surveys and interviews with firms in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, a relationship between sustainability efforts and importance given to these efforts and employee productivity was found. Results were paired with data regarding organizational identification to attempt to determine the connection between employees, employers, and upper level sustainability efforts in an attempt to best determine how sustainability can be a net positive for businesses beyond moral and ethical means.
