Greening People: Human Resources and Environmental Management

An examination of the human resource dimensions of environmental management and how environmental management impacts upon human resource departments. Contributions from international experts in both academia and business look at theory and practice in environmental TQM, education, training and communications. The book argues that environmental management must be seen as an interdisciplinary subject to meet the expectations that stakeholders now have of corporations world wide. Genuine sustainable development for business must move beyond the technocratic fix of compliance to more proactive efforts to change corporate cultures. The work is divided into four parts. The first part demonstrates the relationship between human resource management and environmental management. Part Two provides insight into the psychological make-up of contemporary staff that may foster or hinder company-wide implementation of environmental measures and Part Three addresses the shortcomings of management training programmes and suggests approaches for effective implementation of environmental human resource management. Finally, a series of case studies demonstrate how the concepts are being implemented in companies and local authorities.