Resistance to change. Much has been written on change management.  The starting point is that most people reisist change.  Roy

Dear Kamarudin,

thanks for the question. Is there any peculiar difference between a simple "sustainability implementation" and "lean sustainability implementation" that you would like to explore further? And does lean relate to the philosophy of lean production?

Having said that, I agree with what Roy said. To me, the success of sustainability projects or programs depends on how the change gets managed. Change can pertain things like processes, products and most of all people's mindset on the way a firm produces value and causes impacts, not only for the customers but for the entire ecological and social ecosystem it operates within. There are several ways to prevent resistance. I'd start preventing resistance as much as possible by acting from the very beginning of a certain project, by disseminating why it is important to all the people in the organization, being open to feedback and flexibility and by setting a proper stakeholders' engagement, concurrent in all the phases of the project.

All the best

Ilaria

I guess simply put: what are the human factors that prevent effective implementation.

From human resource - their knowledge, skill and capabilities (or lack of), personalities, motivation, and even trust

Can also look from change management perspective (like Roy and Ilaria suggest)

Human factor plays an important role when we discuss about change management.

significant changes takes place with the support from top down or bottom up direction and values creation in term of financial and creativity impacted the organization as a whole.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i3/2851