April 21, 2008 by John Morelli | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action

In the context of environmental managers, we are interested in how these managers craft their role in the organization — i.e., what they do in their jobs that is not part of their job description (not required by their formal job), in terms of (1) tasks they might perform, (2)interactions with various others within or outside their organizations to better do their jobs, and also (3) how they view their role in the organization (what does being an environmental manager mean for them? what is the meaning of their role/job for them?).

April 28, 2008 by NICOLAS HERNANDEZ and amathew | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

An ecological basis for integrated environmental management
 This paper addresses resolving environmental issues using an approach based on ecology and environmental values. This relates to job crafting as another approach environmental managers could use to successfully solve environmental problems.
The paper indicates that for the environmental manager to effectively manage the environment requires understanding of the essential [...]

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by NICOLAS HERNANDEZ and amathew | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

Integrating Managers into Environmental Management Systems
Abstract:
This article discusses strategies at how to be successful in implementing and administering an environmental managements system. I find these approaches very much related to the environmental manager job crafting. These are skills that the environmental could find very useful in implementing an environmental management system, but also these skills [...]

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April 24, 2008 by bghitulescu , amathew and NICOLAS HERNANDEZ | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

The Green Stairway
The article “The Green Stairway” is a good framework to think about the corporate context in which environmental managers operate.
The interesting question is when do environmental managers go beyond the “traditional” roles (see Exhibit 2, page 18) for each step and do something different?

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April 22, 2008 by bghitulescu and amathew | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

The link given below (from Brenda) is a theory-to-practice piece on job crafting. It was written at the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (University of Michigan) and is available free for download on their website:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive/POS-Teaching-and-Learning/Job%20Crafting-Theory%20to%20Practice.pdf
Given the focus on practical insights for managers, Brenda believes that it would be a good start to think about crafting [...]

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April 21, 2008 by NICOLAS HERNANDEZ | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

Hello, I feel very privileged to participate in the discussion of such important issues. I do not have any previous experience in EHS, but I would like to learn on how I can actively participate in preventing and reversing any future damage to the environment.
I read the article provide by Brenda Ghitulescu and I though [...]

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March 21, 2008 by John Morelli | Filed under: 1-Environmental Managers: Job Crafting in Action

Welcome to the discussion!
Researchers working on this important subtopic include:  Brenda Ghitulescu, Fabiana Kotoriy and Nicholas Hernandez.
Listed below in reverse order are the various postings from the research team. If you are interested in participating on this professional research team, or learning more about it, please contact us by clicking here.

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