• Title/Summary/Keyword: Environmental Management

Search Result 11,534, Processing Time 0.042 seconds

Environmental Consciousness and Environmental Management Performance: The Mediating Effect of Environmental Information Sharing

  • KIM, Minkyung;HA, Byoung-Chun
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
    • /
    • v.9 no.8
    • /
    • pp.57-69
    • /
    • 2022
  • The purpose of the study is to empirically investigate the effect of suppliers' environmental consciousness on environmental information sharing and management performance and to conduct the mediating effect of environmental information sharing between the environmental consciousness of suppliers and environmental management performance. The scope of environmental consciousness was extended from the consumer perspective to the organizational perspective and proposed a variable called environmental information sharing to explain how environmental consciousness affects environmental management performance. The research model and hypotheses were established based on previous studies. After collecting 295 samples of effective responses from suppliers, an empirical analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling. The findings show that suppliers' environmental consciousness affects environmental information sharing and management performance, and such sharing has a mediating effect on the relationship between suppliers' environmental consciousness and environmental management performance. The fact that environmental consciousness affects environmental management performance indicates that environmental consciousness is not just a concept of values such as the firm's belief or will, but a part of the firm's actual goal of performance. Therefore, suppliers have difficulties in reality such as a lack of professional manpower or guideline, but it is necessary to enhance the importance of environmental consciousness and promote environmental information sharing.

Improving a Curriculum of Global Environmental Management of a University based on Environmental Management Experts Competency (환경경영전문가 육성을 위한 역량기반 교육과정 개선 연구: 서울대학교의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Chan;Chang, Youn-Yeo;Moon, Ye-Won;Lee, Jae-Eun
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
    • /
    • v.25 no.2
    • /
    • pp.210-223
    • /
    • 2012
  • This study is aimed to identify environmental management expert's competencies, to analyze educational need, and to improve curriculum of Global Environmental Management major of 'Seoul National University'. Environmental experts are divided into three groups through 'the right people' of the Global Environmental Management major: environmental management businessman, environmental management policy maker, environmental management international cooperator. This study selected three high-performers of each categories through recommendation and made them build a competency model for what the high-performer's behavioral characteristics is. And the educational needs analysis was carried out by practitioners in environmental management field. This study ordered the priority of educational needed competencies by method of Borich's proposal. The high priority of competencies that should be educated preferentially are as follows: responding to environmental policy, analyzing domestic & foreign environmental policy and design international environmental cooperation project. To be secure the consistency with the field need and university curriculum, it is needed to find various interventions in environmental management education and to improve curricula focused on specific competencies.

  • PDF

THE EFFICIENT ESTIMATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COSTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION SITES

  • Hyuk Moon;Sung-Jin Kim;Jae-Jun Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
    • /
    • 2005.10a
    • /
    • pp.437-446
    • /
    • 2005
  • Recently as people's values are changing from development phase into running stage after quality of life, so that the needs of environmentally friendly construction are gradually increasing. Also populace discontent about the pollution during construction process such as the noise and vibration caused by construction machinery is increasing. Even though it is impossible to eliminate the construction pollution fully, it is necessary to make efforts to reduce construction pollution to a minimum. In terms of construction site operating, the first possible step for solving these matters directly is that the necessary sum of expenses must be secured as the environmental management costs in the conceptual phase. However, in fact, the environmental management costs have not been secured in the budget. Generally it is the major reason not arising proper activities to prevent the pollution in the construction site. The purpose of this research is to suggest the efficient budgeting method regarding Environmental management costs to ensure the necessary sum of environmental management expenses. To provide an efficient budgeting method, interviews with the person in charge of environment management was conducted. 78 construction sites was surveyed and environmental management costs were analyzed through their historical data from the survey. According to the results of analysis, the ratio of environmental management costs is revealed 0.45% of construction cost as average comparing 0.2% of legal limit. And usually the environmental management cost was appropriated into the safety management budget. So it is needed to isolate environmental management budget securely and modify the ratio of Environmental conservation Costs in Construction Technology Management Act.

  • PDF

A Study on the Environmental Management Knowledge and Perception on Environmental Pollution and the Management Behavior on Environmental Preservation - As Related to Housewives in Pusan - (환경관리지식과 환경오염인지 및 환경보전 관리행동에 관한 연구 - 부산시 주부를 대상으로 -)

  • 이정숙
    • Korean Journal of Rural Living Science
    • /
    • v.8 no.1
    • /
    • pp.57-72
    • /
    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate some influencing variables related to the management behavior on environmental preservation of housewives in Pusan. The subject of this study were 411 housewives and interviewed with a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by SPSS/PC+ Program for the frequency, mean, standard deviation, Cronbach's$\alpha$, t-test, F-test, Duncan's multiple range test and regression. The major result of this study were as follows : 1. The level of Environmental Management Knowledge was relatively high. The perceived level of environmental pollution was relatively high. The score of perception on water pollution was the highest. The level of management behavior on environmental preservation was relativity low. The score of management behavior on food pollution was the highest. 2. Frequencies of management behavior on environmental preservation differ according to age, education, relegion, and mass - media. 3. The influenced level of perception on air pollution was the highest among the other variables.

  • PDF

Comparative Analysis of the Environmental Management Cost in Building Construction Sites (건축공사 환경관리비 운영체계 비교 분석)

  • Koo, Jakon
    • KIEAE Journal
    • /
    • v.10 no.4
    • /
    • pp.111-116
    • /
    • 2010
  • The environmental management is essential for construction projects. The environmental management cost for construction projects is used for various purposes to control the environmental pollution and treat the wastes generated from the construction sites. Six construction cases were analyzed to compare the environmental management cost. The proportion of environmental management cost for total construction budget should be higher than 0.70% in redevelopment projects and 0.30% in newly constructed buildings, respectively, but every six construction cases did not meet the legal requirement. Redevelopment projects expanded more environmental management cost than the newly constructed projects especially in noise control and wastes treatment. In case of apartment construction projects, the proportion of environmental management cost of redevelopment buildings is 2.4 times higher than the newly constructed buildings, but in all cases, paid more attention to the noise and waste controlling measures than the wastewater treatment. It is needed to ensure the cost-effectiveness of environmental management for achieving the eco-friendly construction sites.

A Study of Environmental Management Investment Allocation

  • Tien, Shiaw-Wen;Chang, Ting-Ting;Chung, Yi-Chan;Chen, Ching-Piao;Tsai, Chih-Hung
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
    • /
    • v.9 no.2
    • /
    • pp.57-77
    • /
    • 2008
  • The $21^{st}$ century is a new century of environmental protection. Environmental protection is one of the most important subject matters yet to come. Moreover, as the public pays more attention to environmental problems, enterprises should increase their investment in environmental management. Therefore, determining the investment level for environmental management and allocating the investment to associated environmental management activities has become a major task. The principal and agent theory and sales response functions are used for analysis in this research. The allocation of capital investment in environmental management is found to have significant impact on the aggregate sales response, aggregate profit and investment level. Therefore, in preparing the budget for environmental management, enterprises should focus on investment allocation decisions, determine the investment level and allocation method using integrated means, and apply submarket data in the allocation decision-making process. In other words, in setting the investment level, executive management should take managers' willingness into consideration. In allocating capital investment, managers should identify the optimal allocation method based on submarket characteristics.

Comparison of Environmental Management Strategy in the Auto Company of Korea, America and Japan, -Focusing on Case Study in Hyundai, GM, Toyota Co.- (한.미.일 자동차기업의 환경경영전략에 관한 비교연구 -현대, GM, 도요타자동차 사례를 중심으로-)

  • Myung, Chang-Sig
    • Management & Information Systems Review
    • /
    • v.25
    • /
    • pp.297-319
    • /
    • 2008
  • Dramatic increase of social concerns on the environments has led companies to take into account environmental issues in strategic decision-making. The strategic consideration on environmental management is essential to the modern companies. This study was initiated with a research purpose to explain the level and the characteristics of corporate environmental strategy through comparing the Hyundai, GM and Toyota Motor Company. The research method adopted by this research is a case analysis. The degree of environmental management strategy was evaluated in functional sectors or value chain including the production, research and development, procurement, logistic and recycling etc. Consequently, this study could find that Toyota is the most advanced company in the level of environmental management strategy. Also there are many differences among three companies in the level and degree of environmental management strategy. Hyundai and GM did not consider environmental management in foreign subsidiaries as much as Toyota. Motor Company. Also the study find out there are actual gaps between the rhetoric and reality in environmental management strategy in Hyundai Motor Co. All companies included in this study consider importantly ISO14001 as the tool to maintain the environmental management of their companies.

  • PDF

Integration of Total Pollution Load Management System and Environmental Impact Assessment related System (수계 오염총량관리제와 환경영향평가제도의 통합운영방안)

  • Lee, Jong-Ho
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
    • /
    • v.12 no.5
    • /
    • pp.359-367
    • /
    • 2003
  • The total pollution load management system of watershed has been implemented upon Special Law pertaining to the Han River Watershed Water Quality Improvement and Residents Support, Special Law pertaining to the Nakdong River Watershed Water Management and Residents Support, Special Law pertaining to the Youngsan River Watershed Water Management and Residents Support, and Special Law pertaining to the Seomjin River Watershed Water Management and Residents Support in Korea since 2002. But many other similar systems with total pollution load management system of watershed are being operated separately or independently, even though its purpose is nearly same with those of the total maximum pollutants load management in Law on Water Quality Environmental Protection, environmental impact assessment(EIA) in Law of Impact Assessment on Environment, Transportation and Disaster and Pre-environmental assessment of Environmental Policy Act. Therefore the contents of total pollution load management system of watershed and many other related systems could be overlapped and at some times have inconsistency among them. This study suggests first the integrated operation of total pollution load management system of watershed, EIA, pre-environmental assessment, urban planning, and sewage planning and secondly EIA system development by integration of EIA and pre-environmental assessment and strategic environmental assessment(SEA).

Comparison of Air Pollution Management Policies between China and Korea

  • SHEN, Ping;PARK, Jae Hong;JUNG, Jong tai
    • Journal of Urban Science
    • /
    • v.9 no.1
    • /
    • pp.51-59
    • /
    • 2020
  • With the rapid development of China's industrialization and urbanization, air pollution has become a growing concern. The emergence of air pollution not only affects people's health, but also restricts the development of China's social economy. This paper puts forward specific measures for air pollution control by examining the causes of air pollution and by comparing air pollution status and management policies between Korea and China. Methods of control involve improving the urban environmental management mechanism, spreading awareness of urban environmental management and air pollution management laws and regulations system, strengthening clean energy utilization and urban environmental greening, increasing investment and management funds and more. Through these measures, urban environmental management in China can be accelerated and level of environmental management improved.

Issues in the Current State of Environmental Management Education, the Nexus of Environmental Education and Management Education (환경교육과 경영교육의 접점, 환경경영교육의 현황과 과제)

  • Yun, Sun-Jin;Lee, Joo-Byung;Won, Kil-Yeon;Youn, Yeo-Chang
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
    • /
    • v.25 no.1
    • /
    • pp.25-34
    • /
    • 2012
  • Following the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, a number of companies began to incorporate the concept of Environmental Sustainability into their business activities. Soon after this, interest in business sustainability within the academic world began to grow and a number of universities in Europe and North America decided to develop environmental management education-related materials and curricula under the support from their respective govemments and private companies. Starting in 1996, a wide-range of environmental management education programs also began to appear in several Korean universities. However, in contrast with the gradual evolution of environmental management education into a single study field internationally, environmental management education in Korea has not become fully specialized, nor has it developed in a systematic manner. In order to enhance and facilitate domestic environmental management education in Korea, universities must put more effort into differentiating environmental management education courses from regular environmental courses through the development of curricula related to business management. The business world has an immense impact on the environment and international environmental regulations are steadily becoming stronger. In this light, environmental education programs need to extend their sphere of study not only to the spread of knowledge and sensitivity towards the environment among members of the general public, but also train businessmen to have an understanding of how their actions impact the environment.

  • PDF