What are the key issues for sustainable resource management? How do companies operate while maintaining corporate social responsibility? From understanding the need for sustainability, and environmental auditing to learning how organisations integrate health and safety policy. This collection/album explores many of the issues that face modern businesses and gives some insight into how these companies function while adhering to various environmental management systems. This material is taken ...
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What can we learn from the way business is done in Asian cultures? The dominant management philosophy in the Asia-Pacific region is a Chinese one, emphasising Confucian values, the family and respect for authority. Does the enduring success of this approach have important lessons for us in the West, or is this management style increasingly redundant, as economies and companies internationalise and mature? This album visits several companies in Asia to explore the relationship between value s ...
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How much do you think about what you throw away? A waste management cycle is essential for a sustainable future. This album considers the policy and legislation that is driving waste management processes across the EU. By modelling the overall environmental impacts of solid waste disposal methods, the UK government has now created a hierarchy of waste and local management strategies. The 12 video tracks in this album offer an in depth look at each of these processes, concentrating on waste c ...
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Just how dangerous is the everyday workplace? What can be done to mitigate risks and avoid hazards? And what trade-offs have to be made between the competing demands of safety, efficiency and wider social responsibility? This album looks at three very different case studies - farming, food manufacturing and urban redevelopment - and explores the varying approaches to risk management within each different sphere. It includes a visit to Fox's Biscuits and Brooksby Agricultural College in the U ...
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How do retailers decide where to locate new stores? Why do consumers behave in a particular manner? How does a frozen pea get from harvest to a supermarket freezer? How do independent and online businesses compete with high street chains? These are just some of the many questions answered throughout this collection of video material that looks in depth at the dynamic and innovative retail industry, and what the future might have in store for retailers and businesses alike. Store operations, ...
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The way forests around the world are managed is undergoing radical change. In the UK, local communities are buying forested land, to preserve forests for the greater benefit of society. In the developing world, forestry commissions are actively empowering villagers to engage in forest management and conservation. The video tracks on this album use case studies in the UK and in India to illustrate ways in which forest management is changing, and how such changes can be implemented. To complet ...
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Chris Murphy gives a brief overview of the waste industry from his experience.Av The Open University
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Joe Taylor explains the significance of planning from a Health and safety perspective.Av The Open University
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Why is an environmental audit important?Av The Open University
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Bernie Thomas discusses how life cycle assessment can be used to quantify the environmental impact of a product.Av The Open University
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Chris Murphy discusses technology in relation to the waste industry.Av The Open University
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Martin talks about resource recoveryAv The Open University
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A look at how stores plan and operate, focussing on Waterstone's and Clarks.Av The Open University
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Looking at the increase and benefits of online shopping and barcode technology.Av The Open University
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The importance of marketing and communication.Av The Open University
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This video looks at how agencies help companies to raise awareness of their brand and promotions.Av The Open University
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An online entrepreneur challenges the existing state of high street retail.Av The Open University
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How should a retailer go about building their brand, and what is meant by 'a brand'?Av The Open University
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Several small businesses explain how they have used public relations to help their businesses grow and make an impact.Av The Open University
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Using frozen peas as an example, this video takes us through the complete supply chain process.Av The Open University
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A look at how UK fashion companies trade overseas.Av The Open University
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Several independent retailers explain why they are a preferred alternative to the high street.Av The Open University
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Experts discuss the internet tools available to retailers.Av The Open University
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How technology has changed and drives retail and consumerism, and the use of statistics and date.Av The Open University
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Businesses reflect on what the future hold for them and where they might be.Av The Open University
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Integrated health, safety and environmental management
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A brief introduction to this album.Av The Open University
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Fox's biscuit factory might not seem a terribly dangerous place, but in fact there are many risks involved with biscuit manufacture, and Fox's have evolved a stringent and complex health and safety policy.Av The Open University
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How Fox's have created a strong safety culture in all areas of their operations, so that workers, consumers and local people are not exposed to needless risks.Av The Open University
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Exploring the risks associated with redeveloping a huge Brownfield site in Pittsburgh, where the town's steel-making plants used to be.Av The Open University
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How academics, citizens and professionals came together in Pittsburg to review the history of the huge site, and make informed decisions on the various risk factors involved.Av The Open University
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Farming has always been a high risk industry, Farms are potentially dangerous environments which require complex risk management.Av The Open University
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Judy Howells, a surveyor who works for the National Farmers' Union's insurance department, begins a risk survey of Brooksby Agricultural College.Av The Open University
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Judy Howell continues her survey.Av The Open University
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An annual event where enthusiasts come to see historic farming machinery in use. Though fascinating, the machines are clearly much more dangerous than modern equipment.Av The Open University
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Participants in the Working Weekend show off their machinery and reflect on how hazards and dangers used to be ignored in the past.Av The Open University
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A short introduction to this album.Av The Open University
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A short introduction to this album.Av The Open University
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Promoting forestry development in India
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How communities in Himachel Pradesh were empowered to take responsibility for the management of their natural resources.Av The Open University
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How the communities within Himachel Pradesh have decided to manage their natural resources. The issues and conflicts that arose, and how they were dealt with.Av The Open University
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Looking at how different communities are working together to benefit each other, in the present and in the future.Av The Open University
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The story of the first and largest community-owned forest in Scotland.Av The Open University
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The first community in Scotland to enter into a management partnership with the Forestry Commission. Members reflect on their journey and talk about the future.Av The Open University
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TU870 course team member Giles Mohan explains why the case studies were selected and unpicks some of the major issues that emerge.Av The Open University
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An introduction to this album.Av The Open University
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Exploring the relationship between Confucian values and the way companies do business in Asia.Av The Open University
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How a form of business relationship that entails mutual obligation is a common way of starting up businesses in Asia.Av The Open University
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Asian companies are less hierarchical and therefore have better agility to compete in global market.Av The Open University
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How Chinese cultures emphasize group benefits and working towards a common goal.Av The Open University
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The differences between Asian and Western workers when finding routes into creativity.Av The Open University
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Conclusions about the Chinese way of working.Av The Open University
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Cutting down the amount of waste we create per household is our biggest challenge.Av The Open University
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How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for composting, or incinerate waste to produce energy.Av The Open University
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Harnessing the power of your rubbish. The steam from incinerators fuel turbines that generate electricity.Av The Open University
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The 6,000 landfill sites across Britain take about 80% of our household waste. A visit to a former landfill site, now a golf course.Av The Open University
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Stage by stage in the design of a landfill site. Finding the right geology and hydro geology and assessing the pollution risk.Av The Open University
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Planning the infrastructure, the delivery of waste, the drainage of the site, and the monitoring facilities.Av The Open University
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