Policies To Keep IT Under Control For Environmental Issues

Legislative and Regulatory Documents

Discuss about the Policies to Keep IT Under Control for Environmental Issues.

There was a time when the meaning of business was to only earn more and more revenues. People at that time used to think very little about the environment and sustainability. However, the scenario has totally changed now-a-days. In twenty-first century, one of the growing concerns is the environmental issues (Middleton 2013). Companies all over the world have come forward to address the issues of the environment. All the companies are developing sustainability strategies to encounter the environmental issues. There is no exception in the opera business. Operas are developing sustainability strategies to make more profit and attract more customers. On the other hand, legal business documents are the base of any organization. Legal documents refer to the legislative and regulatory documents of a business. They are very essential for every company.

This study is about the Tiny Opera Company of Australia which runs its business in a rural town in NSW. There are two parts of the report. The first part is about the determination of various legislative and regulatory documents of the company. In the second part, various practice models used by theaters are discusses and the best model for Tiny Opera is suggested.

A business is considered as a separate entity. Thus, a business has some documents which ensure the identity of that business as a human being. Legal documents are the identity of a business as these documents help the smooth running of the organization. Legal documents include the legislative as well as the regulatory documents of a business. These are the kind of documents which include all the necessary description about that particular business like the name of the business, logo of the business, board of directors of the business, descriptions of the operations of the business and many others. Hence, it is very essential for every business to have all these documents (Bala 2014). The necessary documents for Tiny Opera Company have given below in details:

The first document is the document for the establishment of Tiny Opera. This will include all the year of establishment, name, logo and others of the company. The second document is the function document of the company. This will include the production, presentation and management of the programs of the opera. This portion will also include the public interest of the company. The document for power includes the different powers of the company like the power of arrangements, the power of engages various agents, the power of contracts and many others. There are some special powers of the company which will be written in that document.

Practice Models

The next document is the establishment of the board. This will have all the details of the commencement of the board of directors. This document includes the details of the composition of the boards like the number of the directors, majority number, details of the directors and others. There are certain rules and regulations regarding the membership of the company which will described in the documents for membership. This will include the inclusion and removal of the members of the company. The proceeding document will include the board proceeding of Tiny Opera like the date of the meeting, voting process and others. There will be a separate document for the committees and delegations. This document will have the description of the power of the board members to form committees and resolve committee related issues. On the other hand, details of the delegations will be clearly written in this document. The next document is the document for honesty and accountability. It is must to have honesty and ethics in the business operations. All the ethical objectives will be written in this document along with the accountability of the company. There must be a document about the seal of the company. This seal will be used for the purpose of sending business related documents of the company (Freeman 2014).

One of the most important documents is the financial documents which will include all the financial details of the company. As per this document, there must be a annual budget of Tiny Opera; all the accounts must be audited on an annual basis and there will be annual reports after the completion of each year. Staffing documents will include all the details of the staffs of the company. This portion will include the recruitment of the staffs for the opera and guidelines to resolve the staff related issues. Documents for authorized officers will include the regulations for the appointment and power of the authorized officers of the company. There will be a document which will include the official name and the logo of Tiny Opera Company. It is the identity proof of the company. At last, there will be a gift document. This document has the rules and regulations about how to treat any gifts, grants, donations and others (Parker and Alemanno 2014). These are legislative and regulatory documents that describe the compliance requirement of Tiny Opera.

There are so many opera theaters all over the world. Most of them are running their theaters in the conventional way. That is, they are only interested in making profits out of their theatres. There is no sign of sustainability in their business operations. They are affecting the environment all the time by using harmful chemicals, harmful probes and many other ways. The reason behind this inconvenience to environment is simply lack of education and training. An educated person will never harm the environment as he/she knows the consequences of doing so. There are some models used by the theaters and performance places which conveyed the true message of environmental sustainability. They are discussed under:

Sustainability Plans of Tiny Opera

There was a three days musical festival named the Falls Festival from 30^th December to 1^st January at NSW. The power supply of the campaign was from the temporary power generation. The primary motive of the concert was to make people aware about the reduction of fossil oil and financial saving associated with that. This was a successful campaign towards the sustainability. Another pay about the sustainability was the Water Wars. It was a funny, dark, amazing and shocking about the living in fragile planet like earth. The primary purpose of the play was to show the impact of scarcity. This play was an amazing step towards the promotion of sustainability. Another play was organized at Opera Queensland name The Mikado Regional Tour. The primary objective of the play was to discover the effect of the large regional tours as regional touring is one of the greatest challenges of sustainability. Brisbane Entertainment Center arranged a lot of concerts, plays and campaigns to promote sustainability in this field. The main focus of Brisbane Entertainment Center is to save energy, water and waste. They set target on the monthly basis and evaluate the results to judge the progress. Queensland Theatre Company arranged Energy Audit to reduce the operational cost. This process of Queensland Theater Company contributes to the improvement of sustainability profile of the company (Greener.liveperformance.com.au. 2016).

These are some of the best practices adopted by various operas in Australia. They have arranged different kind of campaigns, concerts and plays. However, the motive of all them was same that is to promote sustainability in their respective fields.

As discussed above, sustainability is one of the greatest issues all over the world. Every organization around the globe is developing and adopting different sustainability polices as per the nature of their business. Whatever the policies are, the reason behind is the same that is to promote environmental sustainability. There is no exception in the case off Tiny Opera. They have some wonderful sustainability policies. However, due to some reasons, they have not been fully successful to promote sustainability in the organization and in the outer world. This is the reason; they have appointed a new environment officer for effective policies that will promote sustainability. As per the requirement of the company, three major options have been taken for the purpose of environmental sustainability. They are discussed in details below:

The first option is to arrange various educational plays, dramas, musical concerts and others every weekend’s days. There is no doubt that all these things are for the entertainment, but there will be an inner message of each of them. Environmental sustainability will be promoted through those events. The reason behind setting up these events in weekends is that more people can come to watch these events. As the company is an art and performance company, they do not have to expense much to arrange this kind of programs. Another advantage of these events is that besides the promotion of environmental sustainability, there is a fair chance of increasing the income of the company. Thus, two things can be achieved by one policy. The effectiveness of these kinds of programs is very good as the audio visual effects will create an impact on the spectators. This will help the company to achieve its desired goals in sustainability (Wheeler 2013).

The second option is to arrange various types of training and development programs for the employees and workers of the Tiny Opera. One of the greatest reasons for the environmental pollution is the lack of education. Education makes the people know about the fatal consequence of pollution of the environment. On the other hand, there are other advantages of being educated. An educated person knows how to use the resources of the environment more effectively.  An educated person can teach others about the adverse effect of environmental pollution. Thus, there is a huge role of education regarding the sustainability of environment. There will be training session for each and every people of Tiny Opera on a regular basis. There will be three classes a week. The topic of the training session will be environmental sustainability, optimal use of the resources and others. There is a moderate amount of cost involved in this process. However, the effectiveness of the program will get the desired results (Ahern, Cilliers and Niemelä 2014).

The third option is to arrange awareness programs in the company about the use of toxic material and hazardous chemicals. Make-up is an integral part of the art industry. The artists need to use different kind of colors and chemical for various role-play. All of the colors and chemicals are not skin friendly. The colors and chemical contains hazardous and toxic material that can cause several skin diseases to the artists. Thus, there will be an awareness programs about the safe use of this kind of colors and chemicals. The program will take place every last weekday. The cost of this program is not high (Chambers, Glasgow and Stange 2013).

These are the three options that can be adopted for the environmental sustainability policies of Tiny Opera. There are some costs involved in arranging these programs. However, the gains from these programs are much higher than the profitability. The first option will be helpful to earn more revenues for the opera. On the other hand, more audiences will be attracted; as a result more people will be the part of the environmental sustainability campaign of Tiny Opera.

Conclusion

In the age of Global warming, environmental sustainability is a light of hope. Environmental sustainability strategies help to encounter the issue of environmental pollution. This is the reason; companies are taking giant steps towards the environmental sustainability. Tiny Opera is one of the companies towards the environmental sustainability. The company has taken effective measures to face the various environmental issues. The company believes in optimal usage of the resources, effective usage of resources, reduction of the uses of toxic and harmful chemicals and others. This is the reasons they have appointed a new environmental officer. The new officer has adopted three wonderful strategies to promote environmental sustainability. Thus, from the whole study, it can be concluded that with the help of effective sustainable strategies, every company can encounter the environmental issues. For this purpose, it is needed to create awareness among the people about the fatal effects of environmental pollution. 

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Chambers, D.A., Glasgow, R.E. and Stange, K.C., 2013. The dynamic sustainability framework: addressing the paradox of sustainment amid ongoing change. Implementation Science, 8(1), p.1.

Freeman, B., 2014. Benchmarking Australian and New Zealand university meta-policy in an increasingly regulated tertiary environment. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 36(1), pp.74-87.

Greener.liveperformance.com.au. (2016). Case Studies | Greener Live Performances – Live Performance Australia. [online] Available at: https://greener.liveperformance.com.au/case-studies [Accessed 12 Oct. 2016].

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Parker, R.W. and Alemanno, A., 2014. Towards Effective Regulatory Cooperation under TTIP: A comparative overview of the EU and US legislative and regulatory systems. European Commission, Brussels, May.

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