The purpose of this research is to show how business and enterprise can align sustainability and sustainable development to create strategic sustainability (SS) procedures, which can be used for planning towards sustainability in an island context. Even with the 3Ps depiction of sustainable development (SD), the idea continues to be difficult to make operational (Azar, Holmberg and Lindgren 1996) and has failed in many of its applications (Baumgartner and Korhonen 2010). Moreover, businesses wishing to operate in perpetuity are challenged by the socio-ecological system that constitutes sustainability. But all businesses have materials, energy and waste flows, (MEWFs) and a more strategic approach to managing these flows can assist businesses with the sustainability challenge. Firstly however, sustainability described as a successful socio-ecological system must be understood. Secondly the process of reducing the MEWFs within the business, referred to as sustainable development actions must be seen as separate but congruent to sustainability. By adapting the framework for strategic sustainable development and using a mixed methods approach, the necessary strategy content for the SS procedures are researched in the tourist accommodation sector-Grenada. It is shown that in an island context, defined as an isolated system with scarce resources, (Deschenes and Chertow 2004) the challenges of sustainability, especially for businesses such as the tourist accommodation sector, are exacerbated. The research concludes with three important groups of steps for the SS procedures: 1) visioning and vision linking; 2) developing sector strategic actions and 3) monitoring and evaluation. A tourism symbiosis was proposed as a critical action for reducing MEWFs. Considerations for implementing aspects of a proposed green economy roadmap using the SS procedures are addressed. The research can assist both policy makers and business leaders to operationalise sustainable development and to do so with some degree of certainty of achieving sustainability in an island context.

Submitted by Marcia Silva (marcia@latec.uff.br) on 2016-07-19T20:19:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert Adelina de Souza Iorio.pdf: 3117564 bytes, checksum: 66380c5d21eafdd6522d72115e93edbe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-19T20:19:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert Adelina de Souza Iorio.pdf: 3117564 bytes, checksum: 66380c5d21eafdd6522d72115e93edbe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-18 / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo identificar pontos de melhoria da Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho - QVT dos Profissionais da área de Enfermagem do Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro - HUAP. Inicialmente, foi utilizado a versão em Português do modelo teórico de Hackman e Oldham, validada por Pedroso (2014), objetivando se conhecer a percepção dos profissionais de enfermagem sobre o conteúdo e contexto do trabalho, entre outros aspectos da QVT. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de questionário em uma amostra de 60 profissionais da área de enfermagem do Hospital Universitário Antonio Pedro – HUAP. Posteriormente, com base nos dados coletados junto a esta amostra, foram identificados os principais pontos para a melhoria da QVT. Como resultado a pesquisa fornece informações para formulação de ações no sentido de melhoria da QVT para estes profissionais. Entre os achados interessantes da pesquisa estão a preocupação dos profissionais em se manter atualizados e o fato de profissionais menos qualificados sempre demonstrarem avaliações mais baixas em relação à supervisão e feedback. Observa-se que não foi identificada na literatura pesquisada registro destas características. A contribuição deste trabalho foi a análise de conteúdo e contexto do trabalho na área de enfermagem a um nível não observado nos demais trabalhos desta área, analisando a QVT segundo diversas categorias profissionais da área / This research aims to identify improvements of the Quality of Life at Work (QLW) of nursing professionals at the University Hospital Antonio Pedro - HUAP. Initially, we used the Portuguese version of the theoretical model of Hackman and Oldham, validated by Pedroso (2014), in order to know the perception of nursing professionals on the content and the context of work, based on aspects of QLW. Data collection was conducted through a questionnaire in a sample of 60 professionals in the field of nursing at the University Hospital Antonio Pedro - HUAP. Subsequently, based on the data collected from this sample, the key points for improving the QLW were identified. As results, the survey provides information, which supports the formulation of actions to improve QLW for these professionals. Among the interesting findings of the research, there is the concern of professionals regarding the need to remain (professionally)updated, because less qualified professionals always show lower evaluations in relation to supervision and feedbacks.This concern (cited previously) was not identified as a QLW issue, in the reviewed literature. This work deepens the analysis of the QLW content and context of the nursing field at a level not seen in other studies, according to various professional categories in this field.