Environmental Management System (EMS) in an Organization A small, growing manufacturing company that focuses on manufacturing lithium-ion battery for the automotive and aviation industries is seeking to expand into the European market in the near future. This strategy has been accompanied with plans of developing a manufacturing operation in the United Kingdom. However, the company needs to consider various aspects in its expansion strategy including corporate safety, health, and environmental protection. This would require the director of corporate safety, health and environment to develop a plan for environmental management system within the organization. This process entails having quarterly meetings with corporate management and formalizing …show more content…
Similar to the manner in which businesses create financial management systems to enhance efficient use and control of financial resources, they have recognized that environmental management systems can be developed and integrated into an organization’s structure and lessen environmental risks and concerns. The use of environmental management systems provides organizations with opportunities to increasingly efficiency and organization in addressing environmental concerns and issues. This is primarily because environmental management systems help integrate such concerns and issues into business decisions and practices. The systems provide a mechanism for controlling environmental responsibilities in an organized and systematic manner. The other way through which environmental management system is by bringing together plans, procedures, and people to control environmental concerns within the …show more content…
The system will also help compliance with environmental laws through identifying legal requirements and developing procedures to ensure compliance across environmental management initiatives. After identification of legal requirements and developing relevant procedures, the system will help the organization adhere to environmental laws by conducting audits to ensure the organization’s management follows the respective processes. In addition to policies, objectives, and emergency plans, an environmental management system helps in compliance with environmental regulations through incorporating regulatory requirements (Christini, Fetsko & Hendrickson, 2004,
The specific obligations in this case would include monitor corporate governance activities and compliance with organization policies, and assess audit committee effectiveness and compliance with regulations
It will be advantageous for the company if they can project themselves as responsible corporate citizen and an environment friendly company. Social enrichment schemes, recycling schemes and educational funds can be initiated to cater to this cause and long term goal.
With annual revenue of US $19.02 billion, Chevron Corporation is the 16th largest integrated oil and gas energy company in the world. Globally they account for a workforce of approximately 62,000 (Forbes 2011). In 2010, the company produced 2.763 million barrels of oil per day (Chevron 2012). Corporations as large as Chevron owe a great amount of responsibility towards the society and environment above and beyond the economic and legal obligations. The industry is strongly linked to environmental scandals and companies make various efforts to address these issues (Farache and Perks 2010, 235). The following thesis will review the Environmental performance of Chevron in terms of fulfilling social needs within society and stakeholders.
Envirofit, in their effort to reduce indoor air pollution (IAP) in India via low emission cookstoves, faced a number of challenges between from 2007-2011 leading up to the meeting on April 2, 2011 between Harish Anchan and Envirofit’s Board. In the following, three large challenges will be examined to lead into the one small challenge which I posit is holding back revenue. From this a recommendation will be made for what Mr. Anchan should do to increase sales.
According to the case study, the work of environmental managers often exposes them to many pollution prevention solutions, but they often have trouble getting access to production areas. Production often sees Environmental Managers as "the compliance police". Stakeholders The stakeholders in this case study include the corporation, the community and the countryside.
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Over DuPont’s more than two centuries of operation, I believe their management objectives have evolved and adapted. Through this paper, I will look at how their present day objectives fit into Peter Drucker’s eight key result areas. The objective of management is to promote safer, greener, healthier living for the global community through innovation. This objective is clearly visible through the more
The managers ensure environmental sustainability in the decision making process which should always be maintained.
We have selected Diageo to conduct an environmental scan of the industry and remote environments to identify potential opportunities and threats that may arise in the near term. We will describe and evaluate our findings and provide recommendations for responding to the issues and opportunities that we have found in the environmental scan. Our assessment includes the following:
In analyzing the macro-environment, it is important to identify the factors that might in turn affect a number of vital variables that are likely to influence the organization's supply and demand levels and its costs (Kotter and Schlesinger, 1991; Johnson and Scholes, 1993). The "radical and ongoing changes occurring in society create an uncertain environment and have an impact on the function of the whole organization" (Tsiakkiros, 2002). A number of checklists have been developed as ways of cataloguing the vast number of possible issues that might affect an industry. A PEST analysis is one of them that is merely a framework that categorizes environmental influences as political, economic, social and technological forces. Sometimes two additional factors, environmental and legal, will be added to make a PESTEL analysis, but these themes can easily be subsumed in the others. The analysis examines the impact of each of these factors (and their interplay with each other) on the business. The results can then be used to take advantage of opportunities and to make contingency plans for threats when preparing business and strategic plans (Byars, 1991; Cooper, 2000).
Legislation aimed at protecting New Zealand’s environment and natural resources has been through countless reforms to better tailor it to the various discourses that surround environmental management. In Simin Davoudi’s (2012) reading “Climate Risk and Security: New Meanings of “the Environment” in the English Planning System”, Davoudi discusses that environment can be seen in various different ways, as local amenity, heritage ,landscape ,nature reserve, as a store house of resources, as a tradable commodity, as a problem, as sustainability and as a risk (Davoudi, 2012). Although, Davoudi’s typology relates to aspects of New Zealand’s environmental management paradigms, it fails to include some important aspects such as indigenous and community inclusion. Davoudi’s (2012) typology can provide for future guidance in the discourse surrounding environment as risk.
The environment today is not in a good condition, Climate change is evident, and oceans are getting polluted. Rainforrest's are decreasing in size due to deforestation and illegal logging. Animals are getting extinct due to the destruction of their habitats. Natural resources are being consumed at very large amounts, and get wasted. There are different ways these problems can be addressed, one option is environmental management. Environmental management focuses on conservation of natural resources, protection of habitats, and impact of humans on the environment. Conservation of natural resources is the smart use of the world's resources by humans, through this waste production is limited, and there will be less garbage in the world. By conserving
Environmental factors cater for the protection of the environment. A business must carefully be able to look at its surroundings to see for benefits and ensure that its daily production does not interfere with society.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is assessment of impacts on the environment due to proposed activity and finding ways to mitigate the environmental impacts.
Environmental law is a broad form of law developed to regulate how human activities affect the physical and biological environment (Doremus et al 2008, 2). Environmental law can be large scale or small scale, global or local; but it takes the cooperation of many different agencies to be successful. Overall, environmental law has contributed to a healthier environment in many ways. Since the beginning of environmental law and regulation, society has seen advancements in sanitation, pollution, air and water quality disease control and prevention, and ultimately in quality of life.