Sustainability Hierachy of needs

Often leadership teams, take other or personal values and seek to inject them into the organisaton and some surface them and adjust.  Consideration of needs is another aspect of forming an organisation on a sustainability journey and can form part of a Materiality assessment or any review of the fundamentals of an organisation.

 

What is your Corporate Hierarchy of needs? Here are some of our thoughts – Let us know what sticks out for you.

 

Self actualisation needs:

 

  • Self fulfilment of desires, hopes and goals that relate to sustainability and self

  • Continual learning and growth of paradigms, skills, knowledge and wisdom around sustainable and regenerative deliverance.

  • United in our work, aligned to personal and corporate purpose

  • Overstanding and understanding – For Sustainable aims

  • Self creation & Autonomy – Milestone support, feedback and reflection for growth of all

  • Corporate beauty in location, space, form and also function of products & services

  • Clear morals and moral hygiene

  • Clarity & transparency

  • Energetic Hygiene

  • Transcendence – Surpassing others and the worldly realm.

  • Exploration

  • Play

 

 

Esteem needs

 

  • Positive self evaluation systems of sustainable behaviour in team and leadership

  • Dignity and respect for their intrinsic human qualities

  • Desired and recognised Achievement

  • Mastery of craft and competence

  • Independence and interdependence

  • Personal, team and organisational reputation

  • Reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favourable attributes.

  • Full and transparent ESG reporting – Full confidence in owning where your organisation is at.

 

Social needs

 

  • Fulfilled and love based people and organisation ( Deep care, integrity, trust and respect and help based interactions which are consistent, e.g. a deep value that is protected)

  • Conscious leaders, followers and communicators.

  • Closeness, affinity and rapport with each other with common values that are aligned to the overall business vision and mission.

  • Corporate inter- kindness and being part of a team with a deep sense of belonging.

 

 

Safety needs

 

  • Security of staff, physical and Psychosocial, Free From Fear.

  • Stable cashflow, client acquisition and market insight gathering processes

  • Protected Staff, IP, Assets, Market share

  • Strong simple, transparent, visual management system with order that adds value, and does not withdraw.

  • Working within agreed legal, customer and social limits of local and global community

 

 

Physiological / Natural Capital needs

 

  • Clean water input and output to land

  • Quality nutrition provided to staff and influenced to be independent eaters

  • Onsite production of food and provision to staff.

  • Clean Air input and output to immediate area

  • Well rested employees and suppliers

  • Continual innovation around natural capital dependencies and creation of smaller business units / services that serve purposes with new models, inputs and outputs that aim to ‘give back’

  • Employees with secure housing situations and site locations that are stable, within walking distance.

  • Advanced clothing that matches the needs to the individual and the work environment

  • Ensuring that the workplace doesn’t hinder any reproductive capability of staff e.g. exposure to organochlorine compounds, heavy metals e.t.c.