Environmental Case Study: Sydney Airport ! Introduction ! With Botany Bay on one side and the CBD of Australia’s largest city on the other, Sydney Airport has a full range of environmental issues to monitor and manage. Environmental management at Sydney Airport is conducted in accordance with the Sydney Airport Environment Strategy. Sydney Airport is Australia’s busiest airport, with over 8 million international travelers and 15 million domestic travelers arriving and departing on approximately
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Theme: International standards and principles on business and human rights Outline 1. UN Global Compact 2. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights At first sight, it is difficult to trace the connection between human rights and business. However, nowadays the proximity of these concepts has been developing rapidly and ceases to amaze. For many influential companies this direction has already become a mainstream. Companies can achieve real progress in observing human rights and
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decisions and operations of multinationals and businesses engaged in international trade. The course also addresses the implications of this ‘global economy’ for the organization and operation of multinational firms. We also consider the ethical and environmental dilemmas and place the issues of sustainability at the centre of scrutiny of global business operation, highlight the politics of the relationship among multinationals, governments and broader society. Aims 1. Provide an appreciation of key
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changed, ecotourism also has gone through a kind of metamorphosis. In its early days, ecotourism was seen more as a type of travel and a specific market niche. Today, it is increasingly viewed as a travel concept or philosophy, based upon a set of principles that can, and should, be applied across the widest possible spectrum of the global tourism industry in an effort to make tourism truly sustainable and a positive benefit to the natural and cultural heritage of our planet. In that sense, ecotourism
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changed, ecotourism also has gone through a kind of metamorphosis. In its early days, ecotourism was seen more as a type of travel and a specific market niche. Today, it is increasingly viewed as a travel concept or philosophy, based upon a set of principles that can, and should, be applied across the widest possible spectrum of the global tourism industry in an effort to make tourism truly sustainable and a positive benefit to the natural and cultural heritage of our planet. In that sense, ecotourism
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May 2012 IJMT Volume 2, Issue 5 ISSN: 2249-1058 __________________________________________________________ ETHICS IN SUPPLY CHAIN Vipul Chalotra* __________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: Today, supply chain management is a well recognised area of academic debate. It has an international presence, with both practitioners and academics alike recognising that it’s an important area of management. An ethical supply chain is paramount to the success of
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MARKETING ENVIRONMENT Principles of Marketing Lecture 2 Scanning the marketing environment Components of the marketing environment. Impact of the macro-environment. Impact of the micro-environment. Marketing Environment • Scanning the Marketing Environment Companies scan the marketing environment in order to change and adapt their marketing strategies – as it provides opportunities and threats. In doing this companies must be proactive, It is pointless to conduct environmental scanning unless
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Pillar training program to ensure all employees have an understanding of Orica’s vision, value and strategies, development of stakeholder plans at key sites to provide a consistent approach to management, implementing Environmental Management Plans (EMPs) to identify key environmental risks, controls and impacts, and Project Sustain which identifies initiatives under Orica’s Safety, Health, Environment and Community (SHEC) (Orica 2013). The disclosures made by Orica can be assessed using system oriented
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DSMHT 201: Applied Differential Equation (credit 02) 1. Ordinary differential equations and their solutions: Initial value problems, Boundary value problems, Basic existence and uniqueness theorems (statement and illustration only). 2. Solution of first order equations: separable equations and equations reducible to this form, Linear equations, exact equations, Special integrating factors, Substitutions and transformations. 3. Solution of higher order linear differential equations: Solution
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task leads to efficiency and reduces waste of both raw materials and time. 2. Table A.3 lists Fayol’s 14 principles of management, first published in 1916. Discuss the principles and note if you believe they are as useful today as they were then? Why or why not? Most of Fayol’s principles of management are as relevant and useful as they were when published in 1916. The principles are duplicated below from table A.I (Bateman & Snell, 2013, p. 39). 1. Division of work – divide work
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