LE5: Personnel Sustainability Performance Targets
Maximum Score
2 points
Input Method
Assessment Portal
Prefill
Not eligible
Scoring method
Static
Validation
Evidence and other answer are manually validated
2026 Updates
None
Does the entity include sustainability factors in the annual performance targets of personnel?
Assessment Instructions
Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?
This indicator assesses whether sustainability objectives (as outlined in LE2) are incorporated into employee performance targets and how these objectives are embedded within the organization’s structure. Integrating sustainability considerations into performance management can strengthen accountability, align individual actions with strategic goals, and enhance the entity’s capacity to drive measurable improvements over time.
Input: How do I complete this indicator?
Select yes or no. If yes, select all applicable sub-options.
If the targets and consequences apply to all employees of the entity, select all relevant personnel types in the indicator.
Terminology
Annual performance targets
Targets set in annual performance reviews, which are assessments of employee performance.
Asset manager
A person or group of people responsible for developing and overseeing financial and strategic developments of real estate investments at asset level.
Board of Directors
A body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization as detailed in the corporate charter. Boards normally comprise both executive and non-executive directors.
C-suite level staff/Senior management
A team of individuals who have the day-to-day responsibility of managing the entity. C-suite level staff are sometimes referred to, within corporations, as senior management, executive management, executive leadership team, top management, upper management, higher management, or simply seniors.
Dedicated staff on sustainability issues
Individuals whose core responsibility is to address sustainability issues.
Sustainability portfolio manager
A person or a group who manages the sustainability strategy and implementation of a portfolio of real estate investments.
Sustainability factors
Criteria associated with the entity’s sustainability objectives.
External managers or service providers
Organizations, businesses or individuals that offer services to others in exchange for payment. These include, but are not limited to, consultants, agents and brokers.
Financial consequences
Predetermined monetary benefits (or detriments) incorporated into the employee compensation structures. Examples include bonuses, raises, profit-sharing, financial rewards, and financial incentives. The financial consequences are contingent upon the achievement of the annual performance targets.
Fund/portfolio manager
A person or a group who manages a portfolio of real estate investments, and the deployment of investor capital, by creating and implementing asset level strategies, across the entire portfolio.
Investment analysts
A person or group with expertise in evaluating financial and investment information, typically for the purpose of making buy, sell and hold recommendations for securities.
Investment committee
A group of selected people who establish a formal process to manage the plan’s investment strategy.
Investor relations
A person or a group that provides investors with an accurate account of company affairs so investors can make better informed decisions.
Validation: What evidence is required?
Evidence
The evidence provided will be subject to manual validation.
The provided evidence must cover all the following elements:
Existence of sustainability-related performance targets: the evidence must demonstrate that annual sustainability performance targets are explicitly tied to the selected personnel groups.
If sustainability objectives apply to all employees, the evidence must clearly state that. Note that language that references all employees will support all personnel groups except the Board of Directors. For example, a policy document stating that sustainability goals are mandatory for all employees during performance reviews would suffice.
If sustainability objectives are specific to certain personnel groups, the evidence must clearly link the targets to only those groups. For example, a performance review template that explicitly requires asset managers to meet carbon emission reduction targets for client travel would suffice.
Personnel group applicability: targets must relate to all members within the selected personnel groups.
If the sustainability target applies to only one individual within a broader personnel group, this must be reported under the "Other" answer.
For personnel groups consisting of a single individual, the evidence must explicitly clarify this in the provided documentation or the open text box.
If an entity provides evidence showing how a sustainability target has a financial consequence for a specific employee within a personnel group and clearly states that the same target and consequence apply to the remaining employees in the group, this evidence will be considered sufficient to support the applicability of the target for the entire group.
Financial consequences tied to sustainability performance: the evidence must explain the financial implications (positive or negative) for meeting or failing to meet sustainability targets for each selected personnel group. This includes clearly linking the financial consequences (e.g., bonuses, pay adjustments, penalties, promotion or demotion, etc.) to the sustainability targets of each selected personnel group. The connection must be clearly defined within the provided documents, open text box, or cover page.
If a promotion/demotion consequence is listed as having financial consequences, it will be accepted.
Consequences can be negative.
Examples of Acceptable Evidence:
Policy documents, process guidelines, employee performance reviews for the reporting year, employment contracts, or documentation describing financial consequences (e.g., bonus schemes, web pages). Note that sensitive information may be redacted from the documents as long as the requirements outlined above are clearly met. If the consequences are not clearly defined and connected to the sustainability targets within the provided evidence, then a sufficient explanation must be provided within the evidence open text box.
Other Answer
The other answer(s) provided will be subject to manual validation.
State the specific employee type and ensure the following:
Other answers should relate to groups of employees, such as acquisition, development, or facilities teams, or specific personnel who have sustainability targets assigned to them.
If a target relates to a single employee within a personnel group, this must be reported as an "Other" answer. The submission must include the employee's name, title, and personnel group in the open text box.
Other answers cannot be a duplicate of a previously selected option. For example, ‘sustainability team’ should not be used if ‘dedicated staff on sustainability issues’ is already selected.
Multiple Other answers are acceptable, but only one will count toward the score.
Scoring
Scoring: How does GRESB score this indicator?
The scoring of this indicator is equal to the sum of the fractions assigned to the selected options and respective sub-options, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.
Evidence: The evidence is manually validated and assigned a multiplier, according to the table below. The evidence must support the validation requirements.
If any requirements are not met, the evidence may be partially accepted or not accepted depending on the level of alignment with the requirements.
Accepted
2/2
Partially Accepted
1/2
Not Accepted
0
Other: The 'Other' answer is manually validated and assigned a score which is used as a multiplying factor, as per the table below:
Accepted
1/1
Not Accepted
0
Duplicate
0
References
RobecoSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment 2017: 3.1.7, Executive Compensation-Success Metrics and Vesting
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