Environmental Managers View on Environmental Work in a Business Context
December 4, 2007 by Brian Butler , amathew | Filed under: Literature Review,Regarding Social Responsibility [1, 2, 4]
Catasus, Bino, Mathus Lundgren and Hans Rynnel “Environmental Managers’ Views on Environmental Work in a Business Context.” Business Strategy and the Environment Vol. 6. 15 Oct. 2007This paper considers the environmental managers’ views on environmental work and about the role and situation of an environmental manager. The author classifies the demand on an environmental manager as falling into three categories, internal, external and environmental.
This paper acclaims the environmental manager as the societal conscience of an organization, who is accountable to within the organization as well as to the external stakeholders and to nature. Environmental managers have to creatively incorporate the sustainability issue wherever and whenever possible in the organization. The demands coming from the outside of an organization are becoming increasingly more important to the environmental manager. As society becomes more concerned with the environmental issues, governmental intervention increases and it creates a pressure on the organization. In summary, the environmental managers take the environmental advocacy part of their role with greatest earnestness. Environmental managers play the worthy role to coordinate the corporate and environmental interests.