Un test de diagnostic en ligne évaluant les compétences et les connaissances des entrepreneurs en termes de développement durable

1. You are a small travel agency that organizes sustainable travels, you receive an invitation to an important Travel Trade Market. What do you do?

You need to think about it and see if someone else can come with you as it is the first time.

You decide to participate modestly and present your company.

You decide to not participate this time because you don’t have a lot of experience.

You decide to participate and start preparing all the promotional material that can help you find new partners and extend your networks.

2. You work in a small tourism company, to which extent are you interested in sustainable travels?

Nothing, you think that travels are always sustainable.

You are planning to organize sustainable travels and make your company competitive in this field considering the environmental and economic impacts.

You aim to make your company more sustainable, and you plan to inform yourself.

You know that travels make an impact on the planet but you do not know how to measure it.

3. A new organizational process will be instaured in your creative hub company. It will now be more environmentally friendly bringing many other benefits. Nevertheless, the process is costly.

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

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

You feel sceptical, you prefer to test first.

You believe that is important to consider a new process that can improve the company and produce more benefits in the long - term.

4. You work in a museum and you decide to organize an exhibition and make it accessible to all customers. What do you do?

I provide the basic equipments according to the regulation.

I talk to both Staff members and the curator to present the strategy in order to involve more customers and make the event accessible to eveyone.

I organize a meeting with a curator to see the best options.

I organize a meeting with the all Staff and start preparing the exhibition.

5. You are an event organizer specialized in cultural events. One of the event you organized went bad in terms of environmental impact and you got a penalty from the council.

You apologize to everyone for the bad result, and you start doing research and consulting with specialists on how to organize a sustainable event for the next year.

You think that you can learn from mistakes and do better next time.

You ask your director advice on how to improve.

You don’t care, you are the best to organize events.

6. In your tourism organization, few colleagues do not totally agree with your idea to follow a more sustainable approach. What do you do?

You present them the strenghts of this initiative but considering their opinion.

If they don't agree you don't insist, you are a team and if someone opposes a proposal, the proposal is deleted.

You strongly believe that your idea is great, you show them that you do not accept a ‘’No’’ as answer.

You listen and understand their point of view and you ask them to help in supporting this cause in other sustainable field they suggest.

7. As a consumer/company, you will favour a brand/supplier that matches your budget and:

That is the cheapest.

That uses sustainable resources.

That gives you acceptable information on the origin of the product and the conditions of production.

That offers good quality and good design.

8. You can recycle sweat to transform it in potable water. This was done by UNICEF in its initiative “Sweat for Water”. Would you accept to implement this solution and drink sweat water if it helps preserving the environment?

Yes

No

This fact is not true

I really do not know

9. What is your attitude towards buying new clothes:

You do not think much about it, if you see a cute shirt, you buy it

Whenever you buy a new item, you donate an old item

You try to limit your clothes acquisition, buy clothes that are sustainable

You only buy what you need

10. While scrolling on Facebook, you see a friend’s post about „green bashing”:

You start arguing with them but quickly give up as they will not be convinced otherwise in any case.

You take the discussion privately with your friend in a constructive way.

You give up, your friend disappointed you, and it is not worth discussing with this kind of people.

You state your arguments calmly and start a public discussion with your friend and all the people interested in the subject.

11. How do you do your groceries?

I just go to the supermarket whenever I want. I don’t see the need in planning groceries, and I don’t read food labels.

I chose the cheapest products and buy according to promotions -3 for the price of 2 for example- Food labels are useful, but they are not my priority.

I try to re-use products or discover new use of products (ex: vegetable peel). Food labels give important information but you have to know how to read them.

I plan according to the recipes I want to cook. I chose my products according to food labels

12. Consumers cannot do much as all the power is in the hand of big companies.

You completely agree, consumers don’t have the resources to face big companies.

You disagree, consumers have all the power.

You somehow disagree, reality is complex, but consumers have the power to instigate change by their actions and decisions.

You somehow agree, consumers can try to influence companies, but their action is rarely effective.

13. Women’s periods and menstrual protection are a societal issue:

I disagree, this is an overstatement.

I agree, especially concerning the environmental and economic cost of protection.

I somehow agree, it is a hygiene issue.

I do not feel concerned by this issue.

14. You are currently experiencing a rush in your company and people are working extra hours. One of your colleagues implies that the team is somehow lacking synergy, and that people would benefit in knowing each other better. For this, he/she suggests dedicating some time to team building activities. How do you react?

You agree but delay the team building to a calmer period

You completely agree and help him/her organize an activity to improve the team’s efficiency.

You disagree, team building is a waste of time

You disagree, team building means extra work and people are already doing extra time

15. Honestly, do you have any prejudice regarding others’ appearance?

I try not to judge based on prejudices and appearance but sometimes I fail.

I do not think so, I am aware of common prejudices and I fight them actively.

I do not think so, I do not judge based on appearance.

Yes, and I guess it is okay, nobody can judge my understanding of the world.

16. What do you think about LGBT initiatives in the company?

I have nothing against it, but I do not think it is relevant that I get involved.

I support it and I believe that fighting against LGBT prejudice starts in the workplace.

I am myself promoting one or many initiatives in the workplace

I think the workplace is not the appropriate place for these kind of initiatives.

17. You are a recruiter, and you have to interview an older candidate that you will manage. How do you feel?

Hopeful. I hope to learn from his/her experience and that our cooperation will be fruitful.

Scared. What if he/she contradicts my authority?

Uncomfortable. Older people tend to be more difficult to manage and impose their style. Let’s see how it goes.

Convinced. Intergenerational teams are stronger, and I trust my managing capacities.

18. One of your employees is very sick (long-term affection) and ask for a job adaptation (in terms of working time). How do you react?

You say nothing and look for a loophole in the contract to fire him/her and recruit someone who can work full time and follow the company’s rhythm

You agree. You plan a meeting with your colleague and the team to accommodate tasks and working methods to his/her needs and conditions without jeopardizing the team’s work.

You agree and trust that your colleague will do his/her best

You agree but you are scared your colleague will not be able to cope with his/her task.

19. I am aware of the impact of the social context on the lives of culturally diverse people, and how power, privileges and social oppression affect their lives.

Always

Sometimes

Never

Fairly Often

20. I am a person who takes every opportunity to be in a place where I can learn about cultural differences and create social relationships.

Yes

No

I don’t know

Usually yes

21. When browsing on social media, you find a post that incites hatred and racism. What do you do?

You report the violation to the administration of the service and organize an event in your local community about tolerance.

You report a violation to the service administration.

You do not see anything wrong with that.

You realize this is wrong, but you do nothing to prevent it

22. You notice that in your company, managerial positions are mainly held by men and women have fewer promotion opportunities. What do you do?

You go to your boss in order to discuss about this situation and possible solutions.

You do not do anything, you like your job and you do not want to spoil it.

You are trying to talk with people in your department about this situation

You organize a meeting with managers and employees, where everyone can express their opinions and obtain explanations and information.

23. You notice that one of your employees engages in behaviour that indicated a lack of cultural sensitivity and is prejudiced against employees with different skin colour and orientation. What do you do?

You're firing him/her

You do not do anything. They should fix it themselves.

You invite him to your office and try to explain the whole situation.

You organize a meeting in which all employees get to know each other better.

24. Your employer had to lay off many employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now you must do things that were previously not your responsibility. What do you do?

You ask for extra training on the new responsibilities, and plan your tasks and calendar with your supervisor.

You are doing everything you can to keep your position in during your working hours.

You stay overtime if it is needed to finish everything on time.

You are convinced that you cannot handle everything, and you give up.

25. You just found a student job as a hostess for a congress. You are suspect that you got the job because of your “pretty face ”.

You are happy about this opportunity of earning some extra-money for your studies.

You won’t work for such things, where you feel that your identity as women is not well respected.

You make some basic checks to make sure that your conditions will be the same as your male colleagues in terms of salaries and requests.

You analyse the endings of the congress, and the CSR policies of the employer before you accept. You will only do this job if you feel in convince with it and if you are sure that your rights will be valued.

26. You are engaged as volunteer in a charity organisation dedicated to the provision of food to the poorest. What do you do to recollect food:

You seek for investors willing to increase your social impact, by preparing a venture philanthropy plan at long term.

You seek for a sponsor among local companies.

You publish a call for food donation at the entrance door of your building.

You organise a campaign to make your charity known and ask for public and private donations.

27. Fighting against discriminations and for higher levels of solidarity within the society is vain, as there will always be people looking for their own interests above the rest. It is better to focus on onself well-being.

Strongly disagree

Strongly agree

Disagree

Agree

28. What are the best initiative that a company can do do in terms of interactions with the local environment?

Participating to altruist activities, i.e. church.

Implementing a Corporate Social Responsibility in compliance with the legislation.

Minimizing the negative impacts of the company.

Having a good Human Resources policy and offering good salaries.

29. Sustainable development is about development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As a young person , you feel that the ability of future generation to meet their need is not sufficiently addressed by authorities… What do you do?

You vote the best you can and complain about the system with your relatives.

You share your worries on social networks and in protests building constructive answers to remediate to this situation at your scale, seeking to unite with other people sharing your interests.

You start sharing your critics on social networks and share with other youth about this feeling, hoping for your voice to be heard.

You focus on your own well being and forget about the rest of society, you stopped voting as you consider that politicians never answer their promises.

30. A local authority representative, who is a friend of yours as well, offers you the guaranty to obtain important gains for yourself, if you can in exchange sponsor a local race.

You stop your relations with this representative, as this proposal does not look very transparent.

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

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

This is unworthy. You denounce the attempted fraud.