Business Environment and Green Agenda Assignment

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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND GREEN AGENDA..............................................................1
CAREER PLAN..............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................5

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND GREEN AGENDA
Climate is usually a weather of a place and it can be different accordance to seasons. A
place may be warm and dry in summer, and same place may be wet and cool in winter. So the
different place have different climate. And climate change is change in the usual weather of a
place and it also a change in earth's climate. Climate change also called the global warming
which refers to rising temperature on the earth (What is climate change,2019). Changing climate
is the part of everyday lives and which affects directly or indirectly on human activity Climate
change is the most important threat and challenge now a days for the business environment.
Climate change like extrema heat w aves can have the negative impact on the business and
society. There are many things that causes of the changing climate like distance from the sun can
be change and the sun can rise more or less energy to earth and because of this oceans can
change, volcano erupts and this change climate. But in present era humans are the main reason of
changing climate. People drives car, heat and cool their houses, cook food all those things take
more energy and another way they get energy by burning coal, oil and gas. Because of burning ll
these things put gases in the air and these air causes to heat up air. This can change the climate of
a place and also causes of changing earth's climate (What Is Climate Change,2017). Apart from
this number of vehicles, aeroplanes and engine are produced every year with this lot of artificial
things are produced and ended up as waste dumps. People produce more wastes. All these
greenhouse's gases created and wrap the earth and become the cause of warming up the earth.
The main cause of changing climate is global warming which may have negative consequences
on physical, biological and human and also effects other too. Global warming is the cause of
greenhouse effects. Without the greenhouse effect the average temperature would be 18 degree.
The main problem is that human activities maximize the greenhouse effects.
The effect of the changing climate can be seen aro8nd the world and UK as well.
Temperature of UK has already been risen. In the UK, 40% of CO2 emissions are caused of
individuals by using energy in their home, driving and travel (How Climate Change Will Affect
Businesses,2018). Climate change affects the human life and environment, business, and public
services. High temperature, heavy rainfall, rising sea level, health, agriculture, wildlife and
many things affected from the climate change. Unpredictable weather can affect directly to the
business in number of ways. For example increasing risk of shortage of water and flooding, this
might be the reason of disruption to business and it become difficult to get insurance. Climate
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change have the impact on agriculture and production operation of the company. Heavy rainfall
and flood spoil the field and because of this supply of the agriculture products and scarcity of
water leads to reduction of food supply and because of this threats, global increase commodity
price, social and political unrest and inflation and because of this economy goes slow down.
Business will have to face problem like extreme financial and physical damages. Extreme
weather or climate change create the problem of resource allocation and cost. Resources will not
be provided in enough quantity or in zero quantity because of the less availability of resources
company will have to reduce their production and increase the cost of the products and the
demand of the products will fall down. In 2003 UK experienced one of the most significant heat
waves recorded in history, due to heat tens of thousands died this turned out to be hottest summer
in more than 500 years. This Working condition due to increase temperature become harsh for
the employees in some sectors where the cooling system can not be use like for outdoor or field
job (HOW IS CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING THE UK,2018). This create the health and
safety risk in those industry ad labours are not be able to work for long. Due to the less
production and demand in company have to change their regulations and policies top gain the
extra sources of revenue.
UK government powered itself for a full day without coal. This is the first time of the
industrial revolution and announced to cut off all the coal-fired plant by 2025 to meet the
greenhouse gases. For this companies in UK can establish CSR to supplement carbon emission
reductions over large scale. CSR (Corporate social responsibility) will help the UK government
to make sustainable change in the environment. This effort of UK government is not just about
top cut coal but replacing the coal and fossil fuels with smarter and cleaner forms of energy.
Scotland has grown as global leader of wind energy, with the ambition plan to produce 100
percent of its gross annual electricity consumption through renewable by 2020.
CAREER PLAN
Human resource is important assets for any organisation and heart of a company. It plays
very important role in day to day business. They hire the right talent for the right vacant in the
organisation and also responsible for centralise multiple human resource functions like benefits,
administration, payroll, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward and
recognition (Why did you choose HR or why do you want to be in the HR department,2018).
Earlier company did not think it worth but since the last decade HR management system has
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proven to important organisation. It is not glamours field but it offers various and wide platform
to enhance skills. The recruitment for HR staffs is rising ever year. It is prestigious field. Being
into HR field, individual get a chance to shape future of employees and as a HR professional
gives liberty to bring change in the organisation according to them, whether it is recruitment,
policy making, appraisal, employee engagement all gives a great satisfaction and keep spirits
high. In today's world Human resource industry is fast growing field and also offers many
lucrative opportunities. This industry gives a good salary package ad secure position in the
organisation. And it amazing when able to give job to people who deserve it (Human Resource
SWOT Analysis,2018).
Organisation's strengths and weakness are the internal factor that affect the Human
resource department. And external factors those like market opportunities, competition and
threats that affect this industry from externally the strength of HR department which help to
enhance and lead the organisation in its desired direction. Internal factors are HR team members,
policies and procedures, work environment, communication and impact on the organisation that
affect the HR department and its activity as whole. Other strengths of HR is to good salary
package, wide platform to enhance skill and learn many more things that are very important in
daily life like communication skill, building relationship with others and employees, opportunity
to shape other employee's career and give people job and other internal factors are the
company's strengths and weakness that influence the work of HR (4 External Factors that Affect
Human Resource Management,2019). Internal budget of the company, bad reputation of the
company in the employment marketplace, lack of benefits to employers to retain them in the
organisation, low employee turnover, lack of suitable and proper training or lack of motivation.
Theses internal factors influence the activity of the HR and also affect the HR industry in the
market. If company has bad negative reputation and lack of resources then HR department is
bound to provide all the benefits to the employees and also unable to give wages and salary on
time this effect the image of HR career in future.
External factors that affect the HR industry are market competition, labour supply and
compensation, government regulation, economic condition, technological advancement,
workforce organisation these are the factors that affect the HR industry and department in the
company. With the introduction of new workplace human resource department is constantly
under pressure to maintain the standard by staying within law. These type of governance
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regulation influence every operation of HR department including hiring, training, compensation,
termination and many more (Opportunities for HR Practices,2019). And another one of the main
external factor is economic condition if economic condition of country and company as well
affect the HR activity and affect the ability to hire anyone in the company. Technological factors
tat influence the HR. technology brings advancement and new skills requirements so companies
need to aware of proficiency and training when planning. As Technological factors make easy
the work load of many people to a single people so there is chance to cut off the hiring and
reducing career in HR industry. Another factor is the competition in the market. As this HR
industry provide wide range of opportunities and scope for the new talent it create the high
competition in the market between the candidates. High number of candidates will lead to less
opportunity to get a job in this HR industry. There is also a political risk in the path of this
industry career, as the government change their policies company will have change their rules
and time of inflation, company also have to deploy and cut off the employees HR department
have to suffer and and it also have the issue to career path and hiring new entry in organisation
(Internal and External Factors Affecting Human Resources,2019).
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