Environmental factors

(noun)

Factors that come from one's environment, upbringing, or social situation, rather than biology.

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Examples of Environmental factors in the following topics:

  • Influences on Business Buying

    • Environmental, organizational, and interpersonal factors all impact the business buying decision process.
    • Four main influences impact the business buying decision process: environmental factors, organizational factors, interpersonal factors, and individual factors.
    • Certain environmental and economic factors can lead to an apprehensive buying center.
    • Individual factors including age, education level, personality, job tenure, and position within the company all play a role in how a person influences the buying process.
    • Give examples of how environmental, organizational, interpersonal, and individual factors influence the business buying decision process

  • Scanning and Analysis

    • Environmental scanning is one technique used by organizations to monitor the environment.
    • These factors indirectly affect the organization but cannot be controlled by it.
    • Two more factors, the environmental and legal factor, are defined within the PESTEL analysis (or PESTLE analysis).
    • The segmentation of the macro environment according to the six presented factors of the PESTEL analysis is the starting point of the global environmental analysis.
    • The six environmental factors of the PESTEL analysis are the following:

  • Tilting the Tests: Discrimination by IQ

    • Furthermore, the relationship between genetics and environmental factors is likely complicated.
    • In general, explanations fall into one of two camps: genetic explanations and environmental explanations.
    • Researchers have suggested a wide array of environmental factors that might influence intelligence.
    • Furthermore, the relationship between genetics and environmental factors is likely complicated.
    • Discuss the various explanations for the IQ gap, ranging from genetic to environmental factors

  • Gene-Environment Correlations: Nature or Nurture?

    • Genetic expression can be influenced by various social factors, as well as environmental factors, from light and temperature to exposure to chemicals.
    • Our genetic destiny is not necessarily written in stone; it can be influenced by several factors, such as social factors, as well as environmental influences among which we live, including anything from light and temperature to exposure to chemicals.
    • People often inherit sensitivity to the effects of various environmental risk factors, and different individuals may be differently affected by exposure to the same environment in medically significant ways.
    • It is relatively unclear whether the genetic or environmental factors had more to do with the child's development.
    • Evocative gene-environment correlation happens when an individual's (heritable) behavior evokes an environmental response.

  • The PESTEL and SCP Frameworks

    • A PESTEL analysis looks at the six most common macro-environmental factors to understand their interactions.
    • Political factors include how, and to what degree, a government intervenes in the economy.
    • Social factors can be very difficult to measure with certainty.
    • Environmental factors include ecological and environmental aspects such as weather, climate, and climate change.
    • Industries like tourism, farming, and insurance are especially affected by these factors.

  • Genetic and Environmental Impacts on Intelligence

    • Human intelligence is shaped by both internal genetic factors and external environmental circumstances.
    • While extreme genetic or environmental conditions can predominate behavior in some rare cases, these two factors usually work together to produce individual intelligence.
    • Heritability describes what percentage of the variation of a trait in a population is due to genetic differences in that population (as opposed to environmental factors).
    • Many different environmental influences have been found to shape intelligence.
    • The family unit is one of the most basic influences on child development, but it is difficult to untangle the genetic from the environmental factors in a family.

  • PESTEL: A Framework for Considering Challenges

    • Encompassing a macro-environmental perspective, these factors can be effectively summarized with the acronym PESTEL.
    • PESTEL stands for the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal influences a businesses encounters as it pursues its objectives.
    • Political factors affecting business specifically revolve around taxes, import and export tariffs, environmental and labor laws, potential subsidies, and the stability of a given operational region.
    • The social movement of living "green" is another example of this kind of macro-environmental opportunity or potential threat.
    • The impact of business upon the environment is a growing concern, and companies must consider both the social and political segments of PESTEL in conjunction with environmental factors.

  • Regulation of Sigma Factor Translation

    • Sigma factor expression is often associated with environmental changes that cause changes in gene expression .
    • Sigma factors include numerous types of factors.
    • The RpoS is critical in the general stress responses and can either function in promoting survival during environmental stresses, but can also prepare the cell for stresses.
    • Specifically, the translational control of the sigma factor is a major level of control.
    • Small noncoding RNAs are able to sense environmental changes and stresses resulting in increased expression of RpoS protein.

  • Situational and Environmental Context

    • It is important to understand the environmental and situational contexts in which you are giving a speech.
    • While context certainly includes your audience, it also encompasses many other factors that are important for you to consider as you craft your speech.
    • Environmental context refers to the physical space in which you're speaking.
    • The audience will connect with you in different ways depending on the environmental context.
    • The environmental and situational contexts in which you give a speech, like in so many situations in life, is key.

  • Other factors affecting supply chain management

    • In addition to managing the bullwhip effect, supply chain managers must also contend with a variety of factors that pose on-going challenges:
    • Government regulations, tariffs, and environmental rules provide challenges as well.
    • Being environmentally responsible by minimizing waste, properly disposing of dangerous chemicals, and using recyclable materials is rapidly becoming a requirement for doing business.