Manage physical resources
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Resource Efficiency for Managers, produced by WRAP
- Laser Learning Reading Text
- ‘What are physical resources in business?’ on the Study.com website
- ‘VRIO: Four Characteristics of Strategic Resources' from PB Press
- ‘From waste to resources: Implementing sustainable resource management in your business’ by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) website
- ‘A guide to organizational resources and how to manage them' from the University of Arkansas
- ‘Controlling physical resources (ILM Super Series), 4th Edition, Pergamon
- The articles below were published by Teach Early Years. They are aimed at nursery managers, but the tips could be applied to a manager in any setting.
- ‘How to manage your nursery’s resources’ by Teach Early Years
- ‘How to negotiate with your nursery’s suppliers’ by Teach Early Years
- ‘Supply management’ by Teach Early Years
- ‘How to save your nursery money by e-sourcing’ by Teach Early Years
- ‘Cost-cutting without compromise’ by Teach Early Years
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation ‘Smart resourcing’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Physical and technological resources’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click the icon to access a PDF providing different stock ordering theories produced by Higher Still Notes.
- Click to see an example of how one organisation manages its human, physical, and information resources.
- Click the icon to explore the Waste and Resources Action Program website.
- The business case for the green economy: Sustainable Return on Investment’ by UNEP. Click to read this document on the reasons why business and industry should be a driving force for a more resource efficient and green economy.
- ‘Guidance on applying the Waste Hierarchy’ by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Click on the icon to read this guidance, aimed at any business or public body that generates, handles, or treats waste.
- The NHS has created a variety of resources for the healthcare sector with the aim of creating a sustainable framework and ethos. Much on the information on this website can be adapted for use in education and other care settings.
- Click to launch this presentation ‘Tips for minimising waste’ by Laser Learning.
- Recycling’ on the Young People’s Trust for the Environment website. Click to access this factsheet and read all of the sections.
- Click to read ‘Getting to grips with VAT’ by Tamara Habberley, published by Teach Early Years.
- Think And Challenge
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