Operation Management

Environmental Objectives

Importance of Environmental Objectives:

Environment plays an important role as now days there are a major concern on the environmental aspects. Due to increase in developmental activities the environment is suffering badly so there is a great need to consider environmental objectives with other operational objectives. As due to increase in developmental activities and increased rate of technology used or technological advancement the level of pollution and other environmental damages are increasing. Climate is changing rapidly. These changes in the environment are dangerous for earth and human beings as due to these changes the health of people are suffering, there are various diseases which are affecting human beings on a great percentage. To overcome or control this problem there is a great need to consider the environmental objectives (Jimenez, Lorente, & Jose, 2014).

Measurement of Environmental Performance:

Environmental performance can be measured in many ways like by checking then carbon emission in the environment wastage of valuable natural things like water, air by polluting in many ways, destroying fertility of land by using poisonous fertilizers. These can be used as the measures of environmental performance. As these are the major activities that harm the environment on a great percentage so, there is a great need to adopt some measures to control these activities that harm the environment. Once these activities can be checked the environment will be safe and healthy. So it is everyone’s responsibility to take a step forward in this regard.

Environmental & Other Operational Objectives:

As due to increase in developmental activities and increased rate of technology used or technological advancement the level of pollution and other environmental damages are increasing. Climate is changing rapidly. These changes in the environment are dangerous for earth and human beings as due to these changes the health of people are suffering, there are various diseases which are affecting human beings on a great percentage. So other operational objectives are also concern with the environmental objectives. That is economic, social and other objectives should be achieved with considering the environmental objectives. When other operational objectives are achieved with environmental objectives then only there will be a trade off (Jimenez, Lorente, & Jose, 2014).

Role of Environmental Operational Objectives in Achieving Competitive Advantages & profitability:

Due to increase in developmental activities the environment is suffering badly so there is a great need to consider environmental objectives with other operational objectives. As economic activities are related to environmental concerns so, there is a great need to consider both environmental as well as economic objectives. When environmental objectives are achieved then there will be less wastage and there will be maximum allocation of resources and this will result into achieving competitive advantages and will turned to increase profitability. As the society now days concern about the environment so it forces the firm to participate or achieve the environmental objectives and this will in turn helps the firm to achieve competitive advantages. The firm who consider both economic as well as environmental concerns together will be considered as perfect and will earn more profits as people will approach to such firms.

References:

Jimenez, J. d., Lorente, C., & Jose, J. (2014). Environmental performance as an operations objective. 1-17: PROQUEST.