Environmental education for small- and medium-sized enterprises: Methodology and e-learning experience in the Valencian region

Teixeira

2012

Prod.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender as características do treinamento ambiental em algumas empresas brasileiras. Para tanto, foram realizados nove estudos de caso com empresas certificadas pela norma ISO 14001, todas líderes em seu segmento de mercado. Foram conduzidas diversas entrevistas em cada caso, coletados documentos e realizadas visitas para observação direta. Como resultado, apresentam-se as classificações dos casos nos estágios evolutivos da gestão ambiental, os temas mais frequentes do treinamento ambiental, a diferenciação dos temas de treinamento ambiental segundo o nível hierárquico organizacional, a classificação das empresas segundo o nível de aderência às atividades de treinamento ambiental recomendadas pela literatura e as boas práticas de treinamento ambiental oferecidas pelas empresas. A principal contribuição desta pesquisa é a identificação de coevolução entre o estágio de gestão ambiental das organizações e o nível do treinamento ambiental que elas possuem.

Section: Ghrm E Treinamento Ambiental Nas Organizaçõesunclassified

Section: Empresaunclassified

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Treinamento ambiental em organizações com certificação ISO 14001: estudo de múltiplos casos e identificação de coevolução com a gestão ambiental

Teixeira

2012

Prod.

“…Analysis of effectiveness of particular incentives can be found in literature sources, but systematic comparison of their effectiveness is limited. For example, some authors have looked over the impact of regulations on SME environmental improvement (Hillary 2004;Masurel 2007;Williamson et al 2006), on education (Cloquell-Ballester et al 2008) or on financial incentives (Clement and Hansen 2003).…”

Section: Incentives For Development and Implementation Of Sustainablementioning

confidence: 99%

Obstacles and Drivers for Sustainable Innovation Development and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Vasilenko¹,

Arbačiauskas²

2012

EREM

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the economic development and provide most of new jobs. At the same time, SMEs are contributing factors in environmental degradation due to their high numbers and their cumulative effect. In this context, broad application of sustainable innovations to SMEs becomes a priority task.The article presents results of a study conducted in Lithuania seeking to analyse obstacles and drivers for implementation of sustainable innovations in small and medium sized enterprises. For analysis, enterprises have been divided in two groups: SMEs with experience in development/ implementation of sustainable innovations and SMEs without such experience. To check reliability of results and to compare SME opinions in different countries, results of the study conducted in Lithuania have been compared to those of three similar studies carried out in other countries.

2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings

“…All in all, the importance of energy and environmental engineering as a base for sustainability and competitiveness is growing. In fact, over 90 % of global company CEOs view sustainability as imperative for their companies' success in the future 7 , and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are often forced to educate their personnel 8 . Page 26.572.2…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education in Energy Engineering Based on Industry Needs

Wren¹

There is an increasing demand on education in energy and environmental engineering, following the trend in society towards increasing sustainability including economic, social and environmental aspects. Altogether this field is considered imperative for competitiveness in the future for many companies and at many markets. This paper addresses these issues by an investigation of industry needs prior to and during development of a new energy engineering profile (curriculum) of as a part of a Masters program in Industrial engineering and management. Also student interest and expectations are taken into account, and subsequently the profile is evaluated.In general, both industry and students were positive to the proposed profile, which was therefore started. Students currently following the profile are in general satisfied, including the 30 % studying abroad. Many of the bachelor projects carried out abroad are located in emerging countries which highlights the competence deficiency in countries outside the industrialized parts of the world.