ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the implementation of environmental policies interacts with the leadership styles, formal structures and cultures constituting the internal environments of organisations. Technological Change is often a key objective of environmental policy; indeed, until comparatively recently, the latter was largely defined in terms of the former. An increasingly common feature of organisational internal environments is a system of environmental management set up by the environmental team to secure the implementation of environmental policies. The aims and objectives of managers are notoriously difficult to achieve, but perhaps the gulf between ambition and achievement is exceptionally wide in the case of environmental policies. The chapter explains three reasons why environmental policies are especially difficult to put into practice. In an attempt to facilitate moving from the old to the new set of goals and performance standards ushered in by environmental policies, organisations may change their system of management.
