Corporate Environmental Reporting: A Panacea to Job Creation

Abstract

The business organizations globally are realizing that making environmentally friendly business decisions is not an option but a business strategy that would result in the growth of their business activities. This is more relevant to the business organizations today especially when the pressure is mounting on the business organizations to reduce the impact of their business activities on the environment. The business organizations are using lesser resources as inputs and getting more outputs due to their decisions to engage in environmental-friendly business activities. This has resulted in the expansion of their business activities thus necessitates the employment of more workers. The benefits of engaging in environmentally friendly business activities by the organization include expansion of business activities that would transform to job creation, reduction in the environmental damage, improvement in the well-being of the community, and preservation of the resources that the business organizations need. This study analyzes the importance of the organizations' environmental activities on the job creation. The study links the engagement of the business organization in environmentally friendly business activities to job creation. The study establishes that environmentally sensitive business organizations have potential for value creation that would transform to job creation.