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A changing business climate has led many organizations to embrace environmental sustainability and social responsibility; however, organizational roles and responsibilities in sustainability initiatives have not been clearly defined. This paper specifically examines the role of environmental managers in advancing environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It is part of a broader study to identify the extent to which various departments or functional units within an organization are prepared to play a role in these initiatives based on a survey of various professionals in relation to activities and action items derived from the ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility. As expected, the findings indicate that environmental managers are positioned to play a critical role in advancing environmental sustainability and social responsibility in their organizations. However, there appears to be disparity between the role that environmental managers indicated they are prepared to play and the perceptions of their role held by others in the organization. While environmental managers indicated that they would support or play a major role in 18 of the 35 action items on which they were surveyed, professionals from other functional units indicated that environmental managers would be involved in only a few key areas focused on traditional environmental issues associated with pollution prevention and waste management. This suggests that environmental managers are prepared to play a much broader role in the organization’s sustainability and social responsibility efforts but may not be fully utilized in this capacity. KEy WORdS Environmental Manager, Environmental Sustainability, Social Responsibility In response to increasing environmental legislation in the 1970s and 1980s, the initial focus of environmental management as a profession was on regulatory compliance and enforcement. In the 1990s, this role began to shift from reactive to proactive with the environmental manager leading the way (Morelli 1999; NAEM 2010). Today, in what many hope will be known as the age of sustainability, environmental professionals are beginning to take on a more integrated role “leading corporate efforts toward sustainability” (NAEM 2010). This research attempts to identify the roles Lisa Greenwood Rochester Institute of Technology llgcem@rit.edu Joseph Rosenbeck Rochester Institute of Technology jmrcem@rit.edu Jason Scott Rochester Institute of Technology jds3553@rit.edu

The Role of the Environmental Manager in Advancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Responsibility in the Organization