Organizational Change

This chapter examines how organizational change principles may be applied to promote organizational greening and employee pro-environmental behaviour. Four key areas of change management are focused upon: organizational culture; leadership and change agents; employee engagement; and the differing forms that change may take. The role of each factor in supporting environmental change is discussed, together with relevant research evidence drawn from the corporate sustainability; WPEB; management and organizational change literatures. Socio-Technical Systems Thinking is offered as a guiding framework with which to approach the design and implementation of holistic organizational change. The chapter concludes by outlining a number of important research developments that are required to aid progression within this domain and key practical recommendations for enacting organizational change for environmental sustainability are offered.