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MECAL BV is an engineering company of which most staffs are engineers and almost all of the management activities are conducted in a centralized manner at the corporate level. This means that the implementation of CS in MECAL BV needs to be centralized and managed through a top-down process from the corporate level to business unit level and subsidiaries. When the CS program is successfully implemented throughout the company, the CS management can be shifted to a decentralized approach and managed at a business unit level. This structure of all the participants of MECAL BV’s CS programs is depicted in Figure 14.

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Source: Self-constructed Fig. 14 MECAL BV CS Participants Structure

Based on the results of the sustainability assessment (see Section 4.3), sustainability principles need to be integrated in two main activities: engineers working on projects and direct contacts with customers. Therefore, there are two major target participants for MECAL BV’s CS that are crucial to achieve the sustainability goals: the engineers and business unit managers. However, the implementation of CS needs to be supported by other crucial positions in the company such as the executive management, the quality and sustainability management team as well as the project managers in each business unit. As such, the five important participants for the sustainable development of MECAL BV:

 Managing Director of MECAL BV

As the leader of the company, the managing director should exercise strong authority to lead the whole company toward sustainable development. A good sense of leadership of the managing director is needed to encourage the implementation of MECAL BV’s CS because only a persistent leader has the ability to foster the alignment between company’s environmental and social efforts with the company’s objectives and uphold the progress within the business units’ level (cf. Epstein, 2008)

 Quality and Sustainability management team

A specialized management team should be responsible for the implementation of CS of MECAL BV. As for MECAL BV, it needs to integrate the sustainability initiatives with the quality management team because quality improvement is part of the company’s sustainability aspects (See Figure 12 MECAL BV House of Sustainability). As such, there are two main roles for the Quality & Sustainability management team. The first role is to lead and guide the staff toward the specified actions that have already been designed to achieve the sustainability goals. The second role is to conduct the sustainability performance monitoring and measurement.

54  Business Unit Managers

The business unit managers are responsible for procedural activities involving direct contact with customers and business partners (e.g. project order, negotiation, discussion, contract dealing, etc.). Therefore, all the business unit managers of MECAL BV’s wind turbine design, wind farm services, semiconductor product development, semiconductor turnkey solutions, and focal vision inspection have to participate in the implementation of the CS. The role of business unit managers is to foster the achievement of sustainable partnerships and viable business goals of MECAL BV’s CS.

 Project Managers

The project managers in each business unit are important to assist the Quality and Sustainability team to implement the CS program to all engineers employed by MECAL BV. The project managers have direct access to review and improve the sustainability performance of the engineers. The project managers can help the quality and sustainability management to regularly review the engineers’ performance toward the set of variables that set in the CS programs for MECAL BV (See Section 5.1.2 no. 3a).

 Engineers

The engineers have broad technical knowledge on producing environmental-friendly designs and productions system to accomplish the goal of protecting the environment. The engineers participating in the implementation of MECAL BV’s CS are all engineers in MECAL BV’s wind turbine design, wind farm services, semiconductor product development, semiconductor turnkey solutions, and focal vision inspection.

According to the schedule of CS programs implementation of MECAL BV depicted in Figure 13, MECAL BV needs to set its programs participants as follows:

55 Table 8 List of CS Programs Participants of MECAL BV

No

Programs

Participants / PIC

I The Orientation of MECAL BV’s Corporate _{Sustainability to all levels of the company}

Kick-off meeting Shareholders, Executive management, Q&S management team, business unit managers Meeting for engineers regarding sustainability

programs (in each business unit)

Business unit manager and staff in each business unit

Trainings for engineers regarding sustainability policies for each business unit (Production, Supplier Selection, Codes of Conduct)

Q&S Management and engineers Implementation of sustainability policies on

engineering work

Project managers and Engineers in each business unit

Review I

II The Practice of In-Office Green Corporate _Culture

Announcement email regarding green corporate culture (waste management, energy-saving regulations, office supplies reduction, travel & transport regulation)

All executive management, staff, engineers, and shareholders

Office waste management Q&S Management and Facilities Socializing energy saving regulations via in office

posters and emails Q&S Management

Reduction of office supplies consumption Q&S Management and Facilities Travel and Transport regulations Q&S Management and Business Units

Review II

III The Integration of sustainability principles into _{quality and human resources management.}

Preparation for Quality Management system that includes the environmental variables related with design, production, transportation and other working activities of the engineers in MECAL BV into quality standard system

Q&S Management

Preparation with Human Resources Division (Rewards and appreciation for the staff that exercise the sustainability actions and guidelines properly)

Q&S Management and Human Resources Management

Quality Kick-off meeting Shareholders, Executive Management, Q&S Management

Introduction Meeting to business units Q&S Management and Business Units Implementation of sustainability on MECAL BV

quality management system

All business unit- project managers and engineers

Meeting to determine sustainability variables to be taken as quantitative indicators for review purposes

Q&S Management and Project Managers

Review III

Source: Self-constructed