Assessment of sustainability aspects in a company

Abstract

Having sustainability as a goal, decisions on products or processes within a company requires integrating technical, economic, environmental and social aspects of all activities being made. Technical and economical aspects are traditionally solved and evaluated with already known methods. Financial analysis, cash flows or marketing goals as basic information are traditionally evaluated. On the other hand environmental and social requirements are hardly ever evaluated or are not solved at all. Many companies implement waste management or environmental departments only to empower potential cost savings and avoid wasting. But concept of sustainability requires much more. This paper deals with evaluation of environmental and social aspects and impacts. The main goal is to determine and suitably evaluate all relevant sustainable aspects of products and processes within company, to empower company’s competitiveness, corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability. The research methodology for this paper consists of qualitative research and examination of primary resources - research articles and secondary literature review process.