Finally, it will be crucial to monitor and measure
progress towards the organizational sustainability
goals, in order to highlight and capitalise in
business terms on their achievements, reveal areas
where improvements are needed, and demonstrate
the return on investment of various measures and
activities such as training courses or recruitment for
sustainability-related posts. Overall, this will require
an art- and science- approach to capture the tangible
and non-tangible dimensions of performance
in sustainability, including for example energy
efficiencies and a reduction in waste, as well as the
changing attitudes and behavior of employees.
HR professionals will need to play a central
role in relation to the performance measurement
of employee-related aspects of sustainability, by
developing appropriate metrics and designing and
implementing data collection methods and tools.
These might include, for example, the analysis
of recruitment data as well as the design and
implementation of staff surveys and interviews
to measure or explore changing attitudes towards environmental issues and their impact on workplace
behavior.