Implementing Proactive Environmental Management Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice (2001)

by Camm, Frank; Drezner, Jeffrey; Lachman, Beth E.; Resetar, Susan A.

• ISBN13: 9780833030153
• ISBN10: 0833030159
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-24
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

In this report the authors summarize and then give proposals on how the Department of Defense (DoD) may implement proactive environmental management to address the challenges of balancing its efforts to pursue core military, financial, and environmental goals successfully.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Tables	vii
Examples	ix
Summary	xi
Acknowledgments	xix
Abbreviations	xix
Introduction	1	(4)
Analytic Approach	5	(4)
Central Policy Challenge: Integrate Environmental Missions and Functions with Core Missions and Functions	9	(18)
Identify Stakeholders and Related Goals	12	(1)
Maintain Senior Leadership Support	13	(1)
Give Environmental Champions Day-to-Day Responsibility	14	(2)
Build Coalitions with Other Internal Interests	16	(1)
Integrate Relevant Elements of the Value Chain	17	(2)
State Environmental Goals in Simple, Specific Terms	19	(1)
Use Cross-Functional Teams for Specific Decisions, Projects, and Processes	20	(2)
Develop Tools to Identify Firmwide Effects of Environmentally Related Activities	22	(1)
Balance Centralization and Decentralization	23	(2)
Implications for DoD	25	(2)
Central Implementation Challenge 1: There are no Silver Bullets when Every Situation is Different	27	(18)
Motivate Creative and Persistent Change Agents	28	(1)
Assign Responsibilities Clearly Throughout the Firm	29	(1)
Design Metrics to Motivate the Right Behavior	30	(3)
Use Incentives to Motivate the Right Behavior	33	(2)
Manage Failures to Limit Disincentives for Risk-Taking	35	(1)
Empower Employees with Formal Training	35	(2)
Develop a Supportive Organizational Context for Tools	37	(2)
Communicate Continuously in All Directions	39	(1)
Manage Relationships with Stakeholders	40	(3)
Benchmark to Promote Continuous Improvement	43	(2)
Central Implementation Challenge 2: Radical Organizational Change Takes a Long Time	45	(4)
Recommendation: Use Formal Quality Frameworks to Implement an Integration Policy	49	(14)
Available Formal Quality Frameworks	50	(9)
Formal Quality Frameworks for DoD	59	(4)
Bibliography	63