Discuss the significance of Environmental Management and Environmental Audit.
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Explanation:
Environmental audit is a general term that can reflect various types of evaluations intended to identify environmental compliance and management system implementation gaps, along with related corrective actions. In this way they perform an analogous (similar) function to financial audits.
The benefits of the audit include:
Reducing environmental impacts. Reducing waste, water and energy costs (annual savings are typically greater than our fee for the audit) Improving relations with stakeholders. Providing the foundation for an environmental management system (EMS) such as ISO 14001 at a later date.
The purpose of environmental auditing is to assess periodically the compliance of completed or on-going activities with the requirements of legislation, measures proposed in environmental policies, environmental management systems and environmental schemes or the provisions of standards and contracts, on the basis of ...
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The points that you have mentioned here are in the right direction and in this way we may not consider management as a full fledged profession. However, the three features of management that we have mentioned in our solutions are true, but partially. That is, the features stating the professional association, restriction to entry and the code of conduct hold partially true in case of management. This is because in management, as you said there is no compulsion for managers to be a part of a professional institute or body such as AIMA. But still, for higher managerial posts, only those people are preferred who have a specified degree of knowledge from a recognised professional institute such as AIMA. Secondly, as you said, there is no restriction on the entry in management. That is, every person can be a manager. But however, only those people who have the right managerial knowledge and skills as obtained (in the form of management degree) from some recognised management institutes are always preferred over those who do not posses such degree or qualification. Thirdly, although there is no defined code of conduct for the managers but, there are some rules and regulations that are laid down by AIMA for its members. Thus, we can say, that similar to the case of management as an art and science, the features of management as a profession are fulfilled only to a limited extent. In other words, we may consider management as a wholistic subject similar to art, science or profession, but only to a certain extent or partially.