Perspective matters: Tap into your organization’s subcultures to improve environmental responses
What motivates managers to look beyond regulatory requirements to improve their company’s environmental practices? It may be a matter of perspective. This paper argues that the relationships among an organization's subcultures shape how managers interpret and act on environmental issues. Organizational culture influences how team members define problems and how they choose the strategies they use to solve problems. Drawing from a nine-month study of a high-tech manufacturer,
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SAP Sustainability in Business Summit
The SAP Sustainability in Business Summit is designed to help you develop practical plans and effective solutions that move sustainability from concept to business reality. This interactive, one-day event will give insight through informative keynotes, in-depth presentations, and live demonstrations of the latest business solutions. At this event you’ll get the information you need to link sustainability strategies with business objectives.
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Report: Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture
The Network for Business Sustainability and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility produced a framework for systematically embedding sustainability into organizational culture following a one-day workshop of senior sustainability and HR executives where participants exchanged their companies’ methods of integrating sustainability into corporate culture.
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With everyone using different measurements, how can we possibly compare “footprints”?
There is much debate about the measurements used to determine a firm’s ecological impacts. Why are these estimates so different? What important questions were omitted from the calculations, enabling such discrepancies? And why should companies consider the carbon footprint over the ecological footprint, the life cycle assessment, the eco-cost/value model or the ecosystem service value? The NBS team sat down with ecological economist Pamela Kaval, PhD, who is lead author of the “Measuring Ecolog
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Conference at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel: Green Employer 2010
Designed for senior-level HR and environmental executives to help create environmentally friendly workplaces and successfully integrate environmental values into their corporate culture. The event is an opportunity to learn from Canada’s Greenest Employers. It offers the opportunity to reduce costs, increase performance and raise employee engagement to new heights.
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Culture enforces patterns of action
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, author of the article behind the Research Insight “Tap into subcultures to improve your organization’s environmental response”, shares fresh ideas regarding the relationship between culture and sustainability initiatives. To gather the data for her original article, she conducted nine months of full-time observation at one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers.
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