ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the environmental management models and demonstrates a wide variety of organizational and operational characteristics. It describes the models in greater detail on the external factors that affect organizational change and identify the external pressures that would have an influence on the type of Environmental Management System (EMS) being introduced or adopted. Hunt and Austers model, in contrast, explores the stages of organizational internal environmental development such as the beginner, the firefighter, the concerned citizen, the pragmatist and the proactivist. Traditionally, environmental management strategies within organizations have been compliance oriented to comply with environmental legislative requirements, organizations established small environmental units to deal with legislative and regulatory requirements. Focusing on operational transformation requires changes in all production and management activities within an organization to enhance its environmental performance. Hence, the corporate strategies were primarily focused on business unit configuration, management systems, and financial transactions with a view to corporate growth and profitability.
