ProTech/Leadership – Business Management
Order Description
Key points from the Leadership Criterion that are critical to the Pro-Tec system – consider areas such as:
Senior Leadership
Vision, mission, values
Goverance
Social Responsibility and Ethics
Look at the section on Leadership and discuss how the organization has addressed the Leadership criterion with respect to the issues we have looked at, i.e., sustainability and the triple bottom line, the organization as a system, organizational learning etc.

Here is the Leadership Criterion to be used:

Leadership (Criterion 1)
Senior leader in company talking with managersLeadership addresses how your senior leaders actions guide and sustain your organization, setting organizational vision, values, and performance expectations. Attention is given to how your senior leaders communicate with your workforce, enhance their personal leadership skills, participate in organizational learning and develop future leaders, measure organizational performance, and create an environment that encourages ethical behavior and high performance.

The Category also includes your organization’s governance system and how your organization fulfills its legal, ethical, and societal responsibilities and supports its key communities.

7.6 Leadership Outcomes: What are your leadership results?

In the results category, you are asked to summarize the organization’s key governance and senior leadership results, including evidence of strategic plan accomplishments, fiscal accountability, legal compliance, ethical behavior, societal responsibility, and support of key communities. segment your results by organizational units, as appropriate. Include appropriate comparative data.

Purpose

This criterion examines the organization’s key results in the areas of leadership and governance, strategic plan accomplishment, and societal responsibilities, with the aim of maintaining a fiscally sound, ethical organization that fulfills its societal responsibilities and supports its key communities.

Comments

Because many organizations have difficulty determining appropriate measures, measuring progress in accomplishing their strategic objectives is a key challenge. Frequently, these progress measures can be discerned by first defining the results that would indicate end-goal success in achieving the strategic objective and then using that end-goal to define intermediate measures.

Independent of an increased national focus on issues of governance and fiscal accountability, ethics, and leadership accountability, it is important for organizations to practice and demonstrate high standards of overall conduct.Governance bodies and senior leaders should track relevant performance measures on a regular basis and emphasize this performance in stakeholder communications.

Results reported should include environmental, legal, and regulatory compliance; results of oversight audits by government or funding agencies; and noteworthy achievements in these areas, as appropriate. Results also should include organizational contributions to societal well-being and support for key communities.

If the organization has received sanctions or adverse actions under law, regulation, or contract during the past five years, the incidents and their current status should be summarized.