June 30, 2008 by Frances and | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace, Overview
Click here for word document summary of conclusions.
Findings of 2nd Environmental Leadership Symposium- EM in Workplace
Comments are welcome.
June 20, 2008 by Frances | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace
Hitting the Green Wall: Why Corporate Programs Get Stalled
This is one of the early writings that urged environmental managers in industry to turn their “environmentalese” jargon into the language of business, ie. making the business case for the environment. The article argues that unless environmental managers learned and became successful in doing this, environmental [...]
June 18, 2008 by Scott Wolcott , John Morelli and | Filed under: 2, 3-Manager vs. Scientist/Engineer, Overview
Greetings,
Our task is to determine the optimum skill set for a successful environmental manager. Should he or she share more of the characteristics of a manager or a engineer/scientist? Or, perhaps more accurately, which of these characteristics and skills should the environmental manager have?
Attached are two documents. The first is a summary of the professional [...]
June 17, 2008 by Brian Butler | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager, Overview
Hello all,
I will be leading a workshop entitled “The Goal of the Environmental Manager” at the Environmental Management Leadership Symposium being held at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. I’m looking forward to presenting some interesting views on the goals of the environmental management profession; some of the issues that we will be discussing [...]
by Scott Wolcott and John Morelli | Filed under: 2, 3-Manager vs. Scientist/Engineer, Overview
Greetings,
I’m looking forward to working on this topic. Attached is a brief overview of the general workshop topic and a proposed outline for our discussion.
Cheers,
Scott
Overview summary and discussion outline
June 16, 2008 by Frances , John Morelli and | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace
One of the most commonly suggested strategies for environmental managers is to make the “business case.” However, some argue that making the business case is not enough to bring about the type of change needed to move to environmental sustainability. The perception is that what may be a good case for business will surely be [...]
June 11, 2008 by John Morelli and | Filed under: Collaboratory, General
On Monday and Tuesday, 23 & 24 June, a second international Environmental Management Leadership Symposium will be held at Corvinus University in Budapest. In preparation for this event, a recent research report about the state of EM in Hungary is attached for your review (environmental-management-in-hungary.doc). The findings, analysis and conclusions of the report are based upon [...]
June 10, 2008 by John Morelli and | Filed under: Collaboratory, General
Comments and suggestions from the RIT Symposium were collected and are presented below.
Consolidation and Overview of Symposium Suggestions/Critiques
There seemed to be a general feeling among the moderators that most participants were quite receptive to the idea of environmental managers being more active players with their respective companies, however, the problem area tended to rest in [...]
by John Morelli and | Filed under: 2, 3-Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems
Welcome to the discussion!
Researchers working on this important subtopic include:
Gyula Zilahy
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Listed below are the various postings from the research team. Some will be abstracts of and links to relevant literature. Others will be original work posted here for comments, criticisms, suggestions, questions, etc. from professional environmental managers who visit this site.
If you are interested in [...]
June 9, 2008 by Frances and John Morelli | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace
These are some articles and websites I found about the status of environmental management in Hungary in order to help me put the workshop into their context. I thought they would be helpful for you all too:
http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.rit.edu/pqdweb?did=1340887871&sid=2&Fmt=6&clientId=3589&RQT=309&VName=PQDGyorgy Malovics, Gabor Racz, Sascha Kraus. “The role of environmental management systems in Hungary - Theoretical and empirical [...]
