Environmental management is the holistic and forward-looking integration of all environmental problems in the company. It serves to implement environmentally-oriented corporate management and can be seen institutionally or as an activity.
Main tasks of environmental management
Its main task is to implement the principles of environmental protection or environmental protection in all operational processes and activities as far as possible. The anchoring of environmental protection in the context of the company's goals can take place, for example, as a technical goal or a formal goal.
The implementation of environmental protection in the company depends above all on the attitude of the company management and the employees towards environmental protection. Basic behavior in environmental management can be:
Passive environmental protection behavior
Passive environmental protection behavior, which is characterized by the fact that those responsible behave defensively because there is no fundamental willingness to promote environmental protection. This behavior leads to operational deficits in environmental protection.
Adapted environmental protection behavior
Adapted environmental protection behavior, in which the companies adapt to the given and as such accepted environmental regulations. The statutory environmental protection requirements are only observed to the extent that they appear necessary for the company's activities.
Shaping environmental protection behavior
Structural environmental protection behavior in which those responsible endeavor to actively incorporate environmental protection into the company's target system. Attempts are made to integrate the environmental protection requirements of the market and the state as early and comprehensively as possible into operational processes.
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