Implementing Green Management in Business Organisations

Green management essentially implies the integration of management principles and environmental management principles that develops into a seamless relationship between the environment and management. In the exponential view, green management is not a unitary construct as it entails a number of components which are interrelated and intertwined with environmental and managerial processes. Green management begins with incorporating the green principles into the mission and vision of the company and translating the same into specific organizational and managerial processes. In the actual operations, the management gives equal attention to organizational goals and environmental goals so that development becomes sustainable in the long run. The geographical features of the land are green and the nature that human beings are confronted with is green. Man’s quest for wealth and material development however has brought about destruction on the green planet, and the very lives of human beings are also endangered in this process. The prudence and wisdom of man warns against the reckless use of nature, and now science tells us that unless preventive and corrective measures are taken, the human beings are in for a bleak future that is not sustainable. It is also recognized by managers that the corporations across the world have an obligation to save the lives of the future generation by going green. The traditional management, as it is practiced, is unfriendly to nature and is against sustainability principles, and it is to be revamped along the lines of environmental management principles. This is the case for green management. This paper examines the different components that constitute green management