Abstract
The concept arising from the relationship between organization, society, and environment is green management. Ensuring sustainability by redesigning business processes is a fundamental activity based on constantly and rapidly changing environmental conditions in an open system with the effect of globalization. Thus, designing future organizations will strengthen by applying environmental policies. One of the conditions to achieve corporate success is green management policies. Putting green management policies into practice is essential and valuable for the future vision of an organization. The organization will set its corporate goals and subgoals in line with this vision. Moreover, the organization will be able to increase competitive capacity by standing out amongst the competitors in favor of performance arising from these policy implementations. This study, for this purpose, scrutinized the contributions of green management policies to the success of organizations.
Top1. Environment Concept And Environmental Problems
“Presence of mankind is based on environmental conditions and thus, the environment needs to be managed wisely.”. Natural resources started to go bad and deplete as the result of industrialization and rapid technological developments in the 20th century; nature's ability to recover is damaged (Kitapçı, 2017: 247). The adverse change in nature arising from the unconscious behavior of people and their selfish intervention to the environment has reached threatening dimensions (Özdemir and Yapıcı, 2010: 50).
According to the 2nd article of 2872 numbered Environmental Law, “Environment is the biological, physical, social, economic and cultural environment in which all creatures maintain relationships and interact with each other throughout their lives” (Kızılboğa and Batal, 2012: 192). The environment also is the interaction between human, animal, plant, and microorganisms surrounding living organisms and air, water, and soil (Lilian, 2015: 52).
All creatures in the world are in an interaction with each other; there is a natural balance between them. Environmental issues mean the negative impacts of artificial environment on the natural habitat (Kavruk, 2002). Similarly, environmental problems can also be defined as the whole of deterioration and problems that emerge based on various activities of humans and affect life in a negative manner (Yıldız et al., 2000: 208).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Green Management: The concepts of environmental protection and economic growth are considered together and in the long term.
Management: It is to get others to work, to achieve work through others, and to reach goals in order to achieve goals that people cannot achieve alone.
Green Design: It is an approach that considers protecting human health and minimizing the harmful effects of humans on the environment.
Environment: It is the physical, biological, social, economic, and cultural environment in which people and other living things maintain their relationships and interact with each other throughout their lives.
Green Employment: Jobs offered within sectors that contribute to the reduction of carbon footprint.
Green Product: Products that do not pollute the world, do not deplete natural resources, and can be recycled or retained in value.