Environmental Factor

Question 1

What is environmental factor?

Answer 1

Environmental factor can either arise from the ways in which the natural environment impacts on organisations act in ethical and environmental friendly manner.

Question 2

What environmental factors are there?

Answer 2

• Weather
• Recycling
• Carbon Footprint

Question 3

Impacts of weather?

Answer 3

Positive:
- A business could be impacted by spells of favourable weather, for example, during prolonged periods of snow the ski industry in Scotland will see an increase in customers.

Negative:
- Prolonged spells of adverse weather, such as snow, can affect the transport networks across the UK. This will make it difficult for deliveries of materials to arrive and for staff to get to work, therefore causing production to slow down or cease entirely.

Question 4

Impact of Recycling?

Answer 4

Positive:
- Organisations encourage recycling by their customers in order to impact less negatively on the environment. For example, retails discourage the use of plastic bags and sell ‘bags for life’ which will lower the cost to the retailer providing plastic bags and gain the company a favourable reputation for being ‘environmentally friendly’.

Negative:
- Organisations need to undertake recycling, for example, of waste paper and printer cartridges, but it takes time, effort and money to recycle rather than just disposing of waste.

Question 5

Impact of Carbon footprint?

Answer 5

Positive:
- Organisations encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint. This means to lower the amount of emissions from fossil fuels released into the atmosphere. Businesses that do this, for example by utilising renewable energy, will eventually save money on fuel bills.

Negative:
- There is a financial cost associated with investing in renewable energy, for example, solar panels or wind turbines to power factories.