April 28, 2008 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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