Implementing Proactive Environmental Management Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice (2001),9780833030153

Implementing Proactive Environmental Management Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice (2001)

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ISBN13: 9780833030153
ISBN10: 0833030159
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-24
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary

In this report the authors summarize and then give proposals on how the Department of Defense (DoD) may implement proactive environmental management to address the challenges of balancing its efforts to pursue core military, financial, and environmental goals successfully.

Table of Contents

Preface
iii
Tables
vii
Examples ix
Summary xi
Acknowledgments xix
Abbreviations xix
Introduction
1(4)
Analytic Approach
5(4)
Central Policy Challenge: Integrate Environmental Missions and Functions with Core Missions and Functions
9(18)
Identify Stakeholders and Related Goals
12(1)
Maintain Senior Leadership Support
13(1)
Give Environmental Champions Day-to-Day Responsibility
14(2)
Build Coalitions with Other Internal Interests
16(1)
Integrate Relevant Elements of the Value Chain
17(2)
State Environmental Goals in Simple, Specific Terms
19(1)
Use Cross-Functional Teams for Specific Decisions, Projects, and Processes
20(2)
Develop Tools to Identify Firmwide Effects of Environmentally Related Activities
22(1)
Balance Centralization and Decentralization
23(2)
Implications for DoD
25(2)
Central Implementation Challenge 1: There are no Silver Bullets when Every Situation is Different
27(18)
Motivate Creative and Persistent Change Agents
28(1)
Assign Responsibilities Clearly Throughout the Firm
29(1)
Design Metrics to Motivate the Right Behavior
30(3)
Use Incentives to Motivate the Right Behavior
33(2)
Manage Failures to Limit Disincentives for Risk-Taking
35(1)
Empower Employees with Formal Training
35(2)
Develop a Supportive Organizational Context for Tools
37(2)
Communicate Continuously in All Directions
39(1)
Manage Relationships with Stakeholders
40(3)
Benchmark to Promote Continuous Improvement
43(2)
Central Implementation Challenge 2: Radical Organizational Change Takes a Long Time
45(4)
Recommendation: Use Formal Quality Frameworks to Implement an Integration Policy
49(14)
Available Formal Quality Frameworks
50(9)
Formal Quality Frameworks for DoD
59(4)
Bibliography 63

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