Una prueba de diagnóstico en línea que evalúa las aptitudes y los conocimientos sostenibles de los empresarios

1. You are a consortium of start ups in agriculture. You wish to implement a new digital technology in your company. What do you do?

You don’t know what to do exactly.

You define your vision and you start to find companies already expert in this field to learn from them.

You define what do you want to achieve.

You ask your consultant which is the best solution.

2. You work for a transport company. In your city, there is a lot of traffic and the citizens complain. You have the possibility to reduce the impact of mobility and on the environment by investing in a system to geocalize new routes. What do you do?

You are not interested to invest in this expensive solution.

You see this opportunity as a big change for your community, the benefits in terms of livability are huge.

You agree but you want to see if there are other options.

You decide to ask another company to know what they think.

3. You are a small enterprise and you wish to invest in sustainability. You need to build a new business plan and see which are the economical long-term impacts on your company. Do you know how to invest in a long term?

You know how to do a business plan and you have estimated all financial costs.

You are scared to take risks and you ask your consultant.

You don’t know how to do a business plan.

You feel ready to invest but you don’t know the costs.

4. You have a business, but your dream is to create an eco village for children. What do you do?

You look for help to assess to feasibility of your.

You start talking with your family and friends about this idea.

You are not confident enough; it is just a dream.

You strongly believe in this goal and start a SWOT analysis of the eco village.

5. You have a transport company, and you want to implement sustainable solutions to reduce the environmental impact. Do you know how to set goals for the upcoming years?

You plan and set goals in a short term.

You do a strategic plan every year to anticipate alternative solutions.

You don’t know how to set realistic goals.

You need an expert to support you.

6. In your organization the director wants to implement sustainability and search other markets to invest. You know the sector very well, what do you do?

You can support only if the director asks for help.

You don’t want to share your knowledge with your boss.

You want to support this activity as you like new challenges.

You talk with your director and ask if there is something you can do.

7. The school of your neighbourhood is organizing fundraising events to help a Cocoa Cooperative in Ivory Coast to obtain the Fair Trade certifications.

You believe that such activities are useless; they just take people’s money and do not do anything.

You let the director of the school know about your support.

You value the initiative; appreciate it as a manner for building a human society and you decide to take part of the organization and fundraising. You start a campaign for fundraising.

You give a small donation for the cause.

8. Today you would like to buy some bananas, but there are different brands with different prices. Which one do you choose?

The cheapest one.

The one of the most famous and well-known company.

I analyse the quality and make a comparison price-quality.

I look for the stamp of Fair Trade if it is certified as a Fair Tarde product; I buy it because it is sustainable and promotes equity.

9. You are asked to help for the organization of a Fair with international bio-eco products.

You feel that these events are very good for the cooperation between people with the same interests and you will see what you can help with when you are asked.

You feel enthusiastic and start already with the preparation and organization of the event.

You accept but you will see how it evolves.

You directly reject the proposal; you do not believe that this kind of events achieve any purpose.

10. You are planning to open a shop in a neighbourhood of a city, and you established in your marketing campaign that most of your products are ecological and sold in bulk.

You decide to offer few ecological products but the majority from local farmers.

You believe that ecological products have the same properties as current products, but you decide to start such business because you caught the trends.

Your make sure that your products are produced ecologically and by local farmers, and if not, from international farmers certified with the Fair Trade certifications.

You buy most of the products from the local supermarket and big supermarket chains and offer them as ecological products.

11. Your organization reduced the polluting emissions as much as possible, but there are still considerable levels of pollution because of its core activities. How would you proceed in solving such situation?

I will try to get in contact with organizations but if it disturb my activities and I do not have time, I will not proceed with it.

I will contact and get information from governmental institutions; organizations specialized on the problem and international organizations, and manage to find the best solutions, such as the Gold Standard certifications.

I believe that if I did everything possible to reduce the levels of pollutions, is more than enough.

I will inform myself at national level and there are not possible solution, I cannot do more.

12. Your colleague claims that non-profit organizations such as Fair Trade organizations do not achieve the promised objectives. In addition, that the organizations with the Fai Trade stamps are not really what they promise to be.

Strongly disagree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly agree

13. You work in an administrative position in a small company in the automotive sector, how important is corporate social responsibility for you?

Nothing, this is something for large firms, not for small companies as yours.

As long as you are in line with minimum regulation, you will handle CSR correctly.

You intend to implement a complete CSR strategy in your company making sure that you achieve a balance of economic, environmental, and social imperatives.

You intend to address environmental issues.

14. You are now asked to make plans for increasing the performance of the production department. What do you do?

You propose to increase the pressure on employees to accelerate the production, so to produce more.

You propose some investments in new equipments that will increase the production performance.

You review the production chain, detect waste areas and intend to reduce those at a minimum.

Your proposal will rely on a „Doing more with less” principle, focusing on efficient production processes while reducing resource use and waste.

15. The products made by your automotive company are mostly exported to multinationals. What would you do in terms of interactions with your local environment?

You take part in local automotive associations that will help you defending your interests.

It is part of your CSR policy to take care of employees, pay wages, taxes, and contribute to their continuous training. This profits to the local community.

You always try to contribute to the local environment, beside providing jobs, by participating in the social life, sponsoring events, participating in charities, etc.

If you work on international markets, there is little that you should do at local level. Your first objective is to attract customers and thus be visible where they are.

16. You oversee the selection process for a new member in your team. The candidate with best qualification is blind and you have two other options… Which candidate would you select:

The one having the lowest wage expectation, so you reduce your costs.

You prefer the candidate who is blind, but it will be complicated to deal with this disability, thus you report it to your boss before confirming this choice.

You chose the candidate who presents the best, gives the best first impression and can look at you in the eyes.

You will chose the candidate with the best qualification, independently of eventual disability. You see it as an asset as it will bring diversity to the team.

17. As responsible for human resources, you oversee fixing the wages… What would be your salary policy?

You look at the salaries offered by your competitors and try to be at the same levels to retain your employees.

You give the maximum that you can, in terms of salaries, bonus and other labour conditions advantages. Well being of employees is part of your commitment with society.

You can’t afford much more than the minimum, but you make sure that you redistribute fair salaries and bonuses at the end of the year if it is possible.

You offer the minimum wage as stated in employment regulations according to employees categories, so you are in line with the law, and you don’t want to assume responsibility for extra-costs that might affect the company profits.

18. A local autority representative offers you the guaranty to obtain and important market if you can in exchange support a local race with sponsoring.

This is a huge opportunity, you take it, of course.

You stop your relations with this representative, as this proposal doesn’t look very transparent.

This is unworthy. You denounce the attempted fraud.

You were thinking about increasing your local involvement in such initiatives, so it is a good opportunity to develop it.

19. I know exactly what changes should be made to the company to make it more efficient and competitive. I believe that these changes will help the company to succeed.

Strongly agree.

Disagree.

Strongly disagree.

Agree.

20. Your company's marketing strategy does not achieve the expected results. What are you going to do?

You are creating new posters and trying to get more recipients online.

You are aware of the situation. You do not know how to change it yourself, so you hire a specialist to help.

You are planning a new strategy. You do thorough market research and try to make your company more competitive.

You do not make any changes.

21. Despite various adversities, I always try to promote my company to increase competitiveness and effectiveness.

Agree.

Disagree.

Strongly disagree.

Strongly agree.

22. I know what to do to make my employees work more effectively.

Disagree.

Strongly disagree.

Strongly agree.

Agree.

23. You receive a report, which clearly shows that your company is not achieving its goals and is not perceived by its recipients as an attractive and trusted company. What do you do?

You are trying to find a solution. You ask your friends for their opinion.

You organize brainstorming in your team and try to solve problems related to the perception of your company on the market.

You do not do anything.

You hire an image specialist to make your company more attractive.

24. You realize that your company's competitiveness strategy is quite risky. What do you do?

You give up the new strategy, and follow the old and secure strategy.

You are implementing a new strategy, but you are constantly monitoring progress and tracking all indicators.

You implement a new strategy, and you are risk-aware.

You implement a new strategy without hesitation.

25. You are a pellets seller for pellet stoves, your suppliers of raw materials (wood) are compiling with the governmental legislations, but the obtained raw material is destroying ecosystems.

You decide to quit and look for an eco-friendly and sustainable supplier.

You decide to continue working with the same because of the cheaper offered prices.

You decide to continue with the same supplier because the governmental legislation is correctly applied.

None of the above.

26. A colleague expressed an idea about the project you manage in front of your supervisor... what do you feel?

Feeling of cooperation and support for improving any project or idea.

Fear and humiliation (because your boss might feel he/she is better than you).

Comprehension but rejection (because even if you consider that it is important to consider other points of view, it annoys you).

Anger (because of his/her act in front of your boss).

27. The strikes for sustainable development and the United Nations Climate Change conferences have no results on the sustainable and economic condition; organization of such events are not efficient in promoting change.

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

28. A process in the company would be improved by implementing a new expensive system, which is environmentally friendly, and is expected to bring reduction in costs and more benefits in the long-term.

You believe that is important to consider such kind of technologies, and you are willing to implement it is and obtain the benefits in the long-term.

You do not think it is needed to invest now; it will be done in the future.

You believe that things are better if they are done as always, no need to implement new changes.

You have punctual doubts about the technology, but you believe in its potential and you are willing to get more information in order to take an enlighten decision.

29. The CSR strategy and the Business Plan of an organization can fail because the initial idea is flawed.

Strongly disagree

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

30. In your organization about pellets, the corporate team, there are few teammates that do not totally agree with your idea about destination a part of the benefits to solidary causes such as planting trees... What would you do?

You decide to convince them with all the possible positive points but considering their opinion.

You just strongly believe that your idea is correct, and you do not accept a ‘’No’’ for an answer.

You try to listen and understand their point of view and their reasons of opposing the idea.

You show them that you do not accept a ‘’No’’ as an answer but you can adapt your idea to their opinions.