PESTLE Analysis

PESTEL Analysis

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Issue in environment....................................................................................................................1
PESTEL analysis including risk and opportunity important of EMS to manage risk and
opportunity...................................................................................................................................2
Benefits of implementation of Environment Management System.............................................5
Limitation of Environment management system.........................................................................6
Scope of Environment Management System...............................................................................7
Integration of legal and other requirement in implementation of EMS.......................................8
Barriers in implementation of Environment management system...............................................8
Process for implementation of EMS............................................................................................9
Changes in Version....................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION ...........................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Environment management system refers to a system which combine process and
procedure for purpose of monitoring, reporting and summarising of environment performance to
stakeholders as well as training of employees of organisation (Vimal and Shivaprakasha, 2017).
PESTEL analysis is a tool used by business in order to identify opportunity and threat for
market. These factors include social, political, technological, environmental, legal and economic
factors. This project includes study of Unilever Plc which is UK based company conducting their
business in various countries. Company is providing consumer goods including food, ice cream,
tea, baby food, energy drinks, coffee, water bottle, pet food, beauty product, pharmaceutical,
health care product and many more. Organisation is dealing in food and refreshment product,
beauty and personal care, home product (Balaji and Roy, 2017). This project report includes
study of Environment management system and their importance in organisation. It also includes
PESTEL analysis of organisation assess macro environment factors that can impact of operation
of organisation.
MAIN BODY
Issue in environment
Environmental issues are those issues which arise in environment and create negative
impact on human activity (Tartaglione, Bruni and Bozic, 2019). These issues create adverse
effect not only on people but also on business. It is duty of enterprise to solve these issues as it
can impact on image of organisation. Environment issues arise in environment create negative
impact on human health are as follows:
Pollution: Pollution refers to release of harmful material in environment and create big
issue in environment (Pantano and Vannucci, 2019). Pollution can be in many forms including
air pollution, water pollution etc. For instance, air pollution is result of release of toxic gases
from factories and industries. These gases can impact on health of employees like chest pain,
throat irrigation, cough. This issue cannot be ignored by business as it affect environment as well
as living beings. It create problem for business as they need to face restriction from local people
while expending their business. Due to these issues, government create restriction for business.
Waste Disposal: Waste generated by organisation is also create environmental issues
(Menikpura, Sang-Arun and Bengtsson, 2016). Disposal of waste through burning result in air
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pollution and disposal of waste in water increase water pollution. All such factors are creating
issues in environment. Business need to identify new ways for disposing of wastage generated
from their operation process. Managers of business need to identify solutions of these problem in
a way that saves cost of business.
Wastage of natural resources: Companies are using natural resources for purpose of
profit generation, it is duty of organisation to utilise natural resources optimally and ensure
reduction of wastage of resources (Annarelli, Battistella and Nonino, 2016). Wastage of natural
resources in enterprise is an environmental issue which affect image of organisation in market
place. Organisation should use natural resources effectively to save natural resource like they
should avoid use of paper at workplace.
Climate Change: Climate change is one of environmental issues which affect
distribution of good and service in different country (Verma, Malhotra and Singh, 2020). It
affect those business which are linked with agriculture sector. This climate change is occurring
due to pollution and other factor and affect operation of business. As tourism business is mostly
affected by climate change.
PESTEL analysis including risk and opportunity important of EMS to manage risk and
opportunity
PESTEL analysis refers to a tool which is used by business in order to identify factors
which affect operation of business (Peker, Kocyigit and Eren, 2017). These factors create
opportunity and threat of business for particular reason. Factors that affect business which are
identified by using this tools include political, technological, legal, economic, environmental and
social. These factors help managers of Unilever Plc in order to identify opportunity and threat of
requirement in company. PESTEL analysis of Unilever Plc which affect operation of
organisation are as follows:
Political factors: Political factors are those which is related to government interference in
business conducted in economy (Sekizaki, Nishizaki and Hayashida, 2016). Political factors
include government stability, corruption level, tax policy, degree of regulation for business, trade
policy etc. Political factors are vital in operation of Unilever Plc as company is conducting their
operation in various countries and need to face various trade restrictions. Serving in global
market include political environment risk in different countries as government are providing
support to local companies and putting various restriction on multinational organisation.
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