Are UK environmental professionals walking the talk? Behaviour and values within UK environmental organisations and their employees

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 49, 2005, Pages 79-94

  Fieldhouse, Emma ^a,b  

^a Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM)   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Culture; Employees; Environmental organisations; Proactivity; Values

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751000773     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Arnot, C. (2002) 'Packing a punch: While manufacturers of ecoproducts learn how to improve branding, their mainstream rivals are opting for an ethical makeover', The Guardian, 21 August 2002: 2-3
2. BiTC (Business in the Community) (2004) The Northern Ireland 7th Environmental Management Survey (Belfast: BiTC).
3. Christie, I., and L. Jarvis (2001) 'How green are our values?', in A. Park, J. Curtice, K. Thomson, L. Jarvis and C. Bromley (eds.), British Social Attitudes. The 18th Report: Public Policy, Social Ties (London: Sage Publications, 2001/2002 edn): 131-57.
4. Crane, A. (1995) 'Rhetoric and Reality in the Greening of Organisational Culture', Greene Management International 12 (October 1995): 49-62.
5. Dalton, R.J. (1994) The Green Rainbow. Environmental Groups in Western Europe (London: Yale University Press).
6. Dobson, A. (1995) Green Political Thought (London: HarperCollins, 2nd edn).
7. EC (European Commission) (2005) Special Eurobarometer 217: The Attitudes of European Citizens towards Environment (Brussels: EC).
8. Fieldhouse, E.J. (2001) 'Isolating Greening Elements Using Web-Based Technologies', Conference Proceedings for the Eco-Managernent and Auditing Conference, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 21 June 2001.
9. Fieldhouse, E.J. (2002a) 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Greening Behaviour in UK Environmental Organisations', paper presented at Dynamics of Strategy Conference, University of Surrey, UK, 31 May 2002.
10. Fieldhouse, E.J. (2002b) 'Corporate Social Responsibility, Greening and Sustainable Consumption within UK Environmental Organisations and Employees', Proceedings of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Conference, University of Leeds, UK, 2 July 2002.
11. Fieldhouse, E.J. (2005) How Green are the Greens? A Comparative Analysis of the Greening of UK Environmental Organisations and their Employees (PhD thesis; Birmingham, UK: University of Central England).
12. Frisch, M. (1997) Global Action Plan Green Scores (London: Global Action Plan, unpublished).
13. Füssell, L., and S. Georg (2000) The Institutionalization of Environmental Concerns: Making the Environment Perform', International Studies of Management and Organization 30.3: 41-58.
14. Global Action Plan (GAP) (2000) 'Action at Home' pack (including Green Score survey) (London: Burnett Publications).
15. Hertwich, E. (2003) 'The Seeds of Sustainable Consumption Patterns', Proceedings 1st International Workshop on Sustainable Consumption, Society for Non-Traditional Technology, Tokyo, 19-20 May 2003
16. Isaak, R. (1998) Green Logic: Ecopreneurship, Theory and Ethics (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing).
17. Lubbers, E. (ed.) (2002) Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration and other Forms of Corporate Bullying (Totnes, UK: Green Books).
18. McDonald's (2005) 'McDonald's Corporate Responsibility', www.mcdonalds.com/corp/values/socialrespons.html, 15 July 2005.
19. Mohai, P. (1992) 'Men, Women, and the Environment: An Examination of the Gender Gap in Environmental Concern and Activism', Society and Natural Resources 5: 1-19.
20. MORI (1999) Business and the Environment: Attitudes and Behaviour of the General Public, Trends 1989-1999 (London: MORI).
21. Porter, M,E., and C. Van der Linde (1995) 'Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate', Harvard Business Review 73.5: 120-34.
22. Rawcliffe, P. (1998) Environmental Pressure Groups in Transition (Issues in Environmental Politics Series; Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press).
23. Rice, F. (1993) 'Who scores best on the environment?', Fortune, 26 July 1993: 104-108.
24. Rose, C. (2004) 'Becalmed in the Mainstream: How Psychological Colonisation has Put the Brakes on Environmental Action', ECOS 25.2: 2-12.
25. Schein, E.H. (1992) Organizational Culture and Leadership (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd edn).
26. Sd3 (2005) 'How We Work', www.sd3.co.uk/how_we_work.html, 17 February 2005.
27. Sillanpää, M. (1998) 'The Body Shop Values Report: Towards Integrated Stakeholder Auditing', Journal of Business Ethics 17.13: 1,443-56.
28. Steger, M.A.E., and S.L. Witt (1989) 'Gender Differences in Environmental Orientations: A Comparison of Publics and Activists In Canada and the US', Western Political Quarterly 42.4: 627-49.
29. Wycherley, I. (1999) 'Greening Supply Chains: The Case of The Body Shop International', Business Strategy and the Environment 8: 120-27.