Jjt Task 1

Introduction
The Creator, whoever the Creator is to you, gave us a wonderful world, a world full of resources to use and
enjoy. However, as plentiful, those resources are; they are not infinite; it is the responsibility of every one:
individual, governments, and businesses to conserve, protect and sustain those resources. This report will
highlight how a small company participates in protecting the environment and conserving world resources;
the leadership quality required; the benefits to gain from a sustainable world, and the legal and regulatory
requirement to follow the principles for maintaining sustainability.
The featured business is a small health care company, Fellowship Senior Services, that provides health care
services to 104 senior citizen and young disable adults in three locations. Fellowship Senior Services
operates two Adult/ Senior Day Program that serve 80 to 90 people a day ( six to eight hours a day), and it
runs an Assisted Living facility that serve 24 residents, 24 hours a day. To protect the environment and
conserving g world resources, the company engages in a recycling and waste management program. It takes
leadership effort by the owner to keep the program going. Though the company effort to protect the
environment and conserve world resources is small in lieu of what other big companies can do, the planet
benefit and so does the company.
Environmental Considerations and Recommendation
Consideration: The Company engaged in a waste management initiative at its largest facility that serves 50
people for six to eight hours a day. The program is has two parts: waste prevention and recycling. Waste
prevention plans to reduce waste before it is made. Management educated participants and staff of the day
program on the importance eliminating waste for a clean environment; the need to save the planet for their
children and grandchildren. Once they understand and accept the concept, it was easy to get them to use nondisposable plates, cups, utensils and other materials that meet sanitary standard. The company recycling
effort plans to reduce the amount of wastes that go in the land field. Among items the company recycles are
office supplies: papers, magazine, newspapers; electronics: old computers, printers and faxes, ink cartridges
and turners; old appliances and scraped metals and all other items that could be reused. It took times to get
everyone on board but now 75% of the day program attendants and 80% of the employees comply with the
waste management and recycling program (Waste Care Corporation, 2012).
Recommendation: The initiative Fellowship senior services have undertaken to protect the environment and
conserve world resources is minute, but it is a step in the right direction. Any actions companies big or small
would take to make the environment safe and preserve it for future generation will have significant impact.
Recommendations for the company to pursue its mission for a greener planet are to add the other two

locations of the company to the waste management program. In addition, they are to start a water and energy
conservation initiative and to continue educating employees, participants in the day program and residents of
the assisted living about the importance and benefit of running a waste management and energy conservation
program.
Ethical Leadership Considerations and Recommendations
Ethical Leadership Considerations: over a century ago, Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court justice, said,
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. That
statement still rings true today. Leaders of any company, big or small, need to go by the following ethical
principles: justice, non-injury, truthfulness and fidelity; by not committing injustice, not harming others,
avoiding lying and keeping promises made (MindEdge Inc., 2013). Communication Leadership is another
attribute all leaders need. For the program to be effective, Fellowship Senior Services' leaders need to have
the ability to communicate the company's plan to both employees and residents of the facilities. They need to
communicate skillfully both verbally and in writing and display both emotional intelligence and crosscultural literacy (Barrett, 2011). A third ethical leadership to consider is leadership style. The companys
leaders would develop a visionary and coaching leadership style that move people toward shared mission and
vision and connect the companys plan with what they want. In contrast, a commanding leadership style
would be highly ineffective in getting people to go along with the companys waste management and energy
conservation program (Barret, 2011).
Ethical Leadership Recommendations: Three recommendations for ethical leadership at Fellowship Senior
Services are, first, leaders, who want to implement the waste management program to protect the
environment and conserve world resources, need to be good at practicing what they preach; they need to be
serious about the program. Second consideration is for the leaders to learn how to be effective
communicators, so they can engage others to follow their lead. They need to make ethical issues a core value
of the company. The third recommendation is for the leaders to be transparent: share success and failure with
all participants; reward and praise those who actively participate in the program and set goals for those who
do not show enough enthusiasm.
The success of the program is dependent on every employees and residents' participation and that can be
accomplished through ethical leadership (Wood, 2011).
Organizational Viability
Sustainability Considerations, a common definition of sustainability is that "It is the use of ecosystems and
their resources in a manner that satisfies current needs without compromising the needs or options of future
generations." This definition alone justifies reasons for a small company like Fellowship Senior Services to
engage in sustainability considerations, because what a corporation does, be it a well-established company or

a startup company, will have economic, environmental and human impacts. As Theodore Roosevelt, U.S.
President, eloquently said
"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead
of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the
days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand
down to them amplified and developed."
The economic impact on Fellowship Senior Services for implementing its waste management program is the
money the company saves. In one of its day program, the company serves an average of 60 clients a day, five
days a week. Each client drinks three to four cups of water a day; that is about 240 cups a day. A box of 1000
disposable cups cost $30.00; clients and employees used about four boxes a month, that equate to $120.00 a
month. When the company implemented its waste management program, it encouraged everyone, clients and
staff, to bring in their favored cup from home to use at the day program. Since then, in that one center, only
half a box of disposable cups are used a month. That is a saving of nearly $1440.00 a year on cups alone.
Other savings also derive from no use of disposable plates, selling of old appliances, scrapped metals, and
reducing fee for trash pickups.
Environmental Impact, as mentioned above, since implementing the waste management program, that one
location stopped using disposable cups, disposable plates, recyclable office supplies, old appliances and other
disposable items. Since then, the company used a smaller trash dumpster and sanitation service does three
trash pickups a week instead of five. Therefore, less trash goes to the land field and most of the trashes
pickup from Fellowship Senior Services is biodegradable.
The Human Impact, the primary reason of implementing the waste management program was its potential
benefits on society. Even if the company did not save any money, the hidden benefits are far greater than not
having the program. For Fellowship Senior Services it is more about planet, people than it is about profit.
Sustainability Recommendation, as it was shown above, even for a small company like Fellowship Senior
Services, engagement in a sustainability program is financial beneficial, by not using styrofoam cups alone,
the company saved over $1440.00 a year. It is also shown that because of the program, the company sent less
waste to landfills benefiting both the environment and society. Sustainability Recommendation for
Fellowship Senior Services is for the company to continue embracing sustainability management and place
the other senior center and the assisted living in the waste management program. Other recommendations
will be for the company to engage in water and energy conservation programs (MindEdge, Sustainable
Management, 2011).

Legal / Regulatory Considerations and Recommendations

Legal / Regulatory Consideration, do we need law to help protect the environment and sustain it for future
generations? The answer is a resolute yes! Even with present government regulation, big corporations are
frequently using loopholes to circumvent the law. The government can only regulate; it takes ethics on the
part of corporate leaders, managers, employees and all stakeholders to get involved. As a health care
company, Fellowship Senior Services has to obey all environmental laws in general, EPA, IPA A and the
Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention (HAIP) Act 52.
The EPA set guidelines for disposable of such non-hazardous waste such as product packaging, bottles, food
scraps, and set more restrictive guidelines for hazardous materials, especially infectious waste from the
health care industry (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2012). Another law for Fellowship Senior
Services to consider is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 which
protects patient privacy right. HIPAA specifies that patients information s cannot be released without their
consent (American Hospital Association, 2012). The company need to be mindful of it disposes materials
from it waste management program. The company will also consider the Healthcare Associated Infection
Prevention (HAIP), established to execute the Department of Healths responsibilities created by Act 52 of
2007 (Pennsylvania Department of Health, 2012).
Legal / Regulatory Recommendations, managers at Fellowship Senior Services should continue to do
whatever is necessary not only to observe environmental laws but to exceed their requirements. For example,
even though, recycling is not mandatory in the cities where the company conducts business, management
decides to engage in a waste and recycling program. The company should continue to engage in energy and
water conservation.
Discoveries of unethical behaviors involving high profile companies such as Enron, WorldCom and BP
continue to erode public trust and confidence in the corporate world. Many corporations have broken
environmental laws and used their influence to avoid penalties. It will take not only government regulations
and enforcement but also ethical leadership to help corporations address issues that are affecting the
economy, society, the environment, the current and future generations (The Global Voice of Quality, 2003)