John Moxen

ISO 14001: a case of cultural myopia

Under pressure from governments, public opinion and customers, organizations are setting more challenging environmental agendas. To deliver on these agendas managers and staff must refashion business strategies and production processes. In this context, ISO 14001 has been welcomed for appearing to detail the managerial and work arrangements that will enable corporations to exercise effective control over the implementation of environmental policies. The putative benefits of these arrangements include the identification of the obstacles blocking policy implementation – especially organizational barriers, the specification of realistic and monitorable goals and the means to align policies and programmes with those goals. In fact, far from enabling organizations to pursue what for them are groundbreaking environmental strategies, the management principles and systems detailed in ISO 14001 compound matters. The organization culture projected by these principles encourages risk avoidance, places a premium on tradition and precedent and discourages originality and creativity. ISO 14001 should be revised to incorporate participatory and more flexible systems of management: research suggests that such systems are more likely to trigger the required conceptual dynamic. Copyright

THE ECO‐MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT SCHEME: RECENT EXPERIENCES OF UK PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

The EU Eco-management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was adopted by the Council of Ministers in 1993 and has been available for participation by organizations since April 1995. The EMAS requires organizations to formulate a comprehensive environmental management system which should ideally cover the entirety of the implementing organizations activities and operations. This paper discusses the EMAS and presents the findings of a survey of all the organizations currently accredited with EMAS in the UK. The survey was undertaken during the summer months of 1996 and reveals the early experiences of these pioneering organizations.

Managing Green Teams : Environmental Change in Organisations and Networks

Introduction: Teams and the Management of Environmental Problems John Moxen and Peter A. Strachan 1. The Saturn Experience: Developing Habitual Routines in Manufacturing Teams Sandra L. Rothenberg 2. Corporate Commitment to the Natural Environment: Issues in a Team Approach Paul Douglas Keogh and Michael Jay Polonsky 3. Teamworking for Environmental Excellence in a University Context Sarah J. Cowell, Susan B. Hodgson and Roland Clift 4. Working with NGO Environmentalism for Land Reclamation Research Martin J. Haigh 5. Managing the Environmental Change Process: Barriers and Opportunities James E. Post and Barbara W. Altman 6. The Challenges of Internal Change Management John Moxen and Peter A. Strachan 7. Bulldozing the Green Wall: A Team-Based Approach to Integrating the Environmental, Health and Safety Function Kenneth W. Ayers and Timothy T. Greene 8. A Team-Based Approach to Graduate Education: The Minnesota Model James Perry, Sharon Anderson, Pam Davis and John Bryson 9. Managing Environmental Performance in the Organisation: A Participatory Model John Moxen and Peter A. Strachan 10. Postgraduate Team-Teaching for Central European Executives: Assessing Experience of the Environmental Training Project Zbigniew Bochniarz, Wieslaw Chodasewicz, Vilma Eri and Peter A. Strachan 11. Territorial Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Local and Regional Teamworking to Enhance the Environment Peter Roberts 12. From Environmental Loss to Environmental Gain: Multi-Disciplinary Teams in European Regional Economic Development Keith Clement 13. The UKs First Environment City Partnership: A Prototype Model for Local Sustainable Development? Ian Worthington and Alan Murphy 14. Teams in Local Environmental Action Planning: Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe Elena Petkova and James Perry 15. Virtual Teams for Corporate Environmental Excellence Josephine Chinying Lang and Andrew Chinpeng Ho

Organizing the dissemination of environmental information: lessons from Scotland

National strategies for the dissemination of environmental information are rarely examined by social scientists. This is despite the fact that policies to secure the effective dissemination of environmental information play an important role in the success of national educational programmes. This paper evaluates the dissemination strategy pursued in one of the UKs constituent parts, Scotland, and draws lessons of general relevance to students of policy implementation. The discussion is based on a large-scale survey of key actors involved in the dissemination of environmental information within Scotland and incorporates a distinctive methodology which could serve as a template for future studies. Copyright