Greening People

by Wehrmeyer, Walter

• ISBN13: 9781874719151
• ISBN10: 1874719152
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns

Summary

This major new collection examines both the human resource dimensions of environmental management and how environmental management impacts on human resource departments. Contributions from international experts in both academia and business look at current theory and best practice in environmental TQM, education, training and communications. Greening People argues that environmental management must be seen as an interdisciplinary subject to meet the expectations stakeholders now have of corporations worldwide. Genuine sustainable development for business must move beyond the technocratic fix of compliance to more proactive efforts to change corporate cultures. If a company is to adopt an environmentally-aware approach to its activities, the employees are the key to its success or failure. Realistically, it is only through the energy, performance and personal commitment of each employee within an organisation that business will move towards sustainable industrial development.
This book provides an important angle on the new complexities faced by environmental managers and human resource professionals and offers practical solutions drawn from some of the leading lights in the corporate environmental revolution.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Foreward	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Total Quality Environmental Management and Human Resource Management	p. 35
Best Environmental HRM Practices in the USA	p. 49
Managing Corporate Environmental Policy: A Process of Complex Change	p. 75
Who's Afraid of Local Agenda 21? A Survey of UK Local Government Environmental Co-ordinators' Background, Values, Gender and Motivation	p. 99
Industrial Relations and the Environment in the UK	p. 117
The European Environmental Executive: Technical Specialist or Corporate Change Agent?	p. 143
Identification and Relevance of Environmental Corporate Cultures as Part of a Coherent Environmental Policy	p. 163
The Role of the Personnel Practitioner in Facilitating Environmental Responsibility in Work Organisations	p. 185
Women, Environmental Management and Human Resources Management	p. 199
Employees Give Business its Green Edge: Employee Participation in Corporate Environmental Care	p. 213
Training for Environmental Improvement	p. 227
Environmental Training in British and German Companies	p. 247
Managing the Learning of Ecological Competence	p. 271
The Greening of European Management Education	p. 289
Working in Environment: Skills, Expertise and New Opportunities	p. 301
Learning to Change: Implementing Corporate Environmental Policy in the Rover Group	p. 317
Analysis for Environmental Training Needs	p. 339
Action through Ownership: Learning the Way at Kent County Council	p. 357
A Global Challenge: Environment Management in Cable and Wireless	p. 379
Author Biographies	p. 383
List of Acronyms	p. 389
Index	p. 391
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