Abstract: . . .  environmental reporting, corporate environmental target setting as well as company wide programs to formally assess the environmental impacts of the company. At the end of this section, the respondents were encouraged to provide feedback or any additional comments. Corporate Environmental Management Sample Question: How does your facility receive information from the parent company or corporate headquarters regarding environmental issues? 3.2.3 Survey Administration In order to ensure a high response rate, firms were contacted via telephone to identify the correct respondent, correct mailing address and to determine if the respondent would prefer to reply via hard copy (mail) or electronic mail (e-mail). If the appropriate individual could not be reached directly, a message was left with a company representative. In order to allow respondents ample time to respond it was determined that the mail and e-mail surveys would be administered in three rounds with a three week lag between mailings. A cut-off . . .
. . .  Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance 2002 Page 19 - 7 - 2.5 Certification If all of the elements of an EMS identified in Table 2.1 are in place, an organization may declare that it has successfully implemented the standard. An alternative to this self- declaration is to have an external party certify that the organization has implemented an EMS that meets the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard (International Organization for Standardization 2002a). An organization may choose to certify its environmental management system to comply with a business partner’s request, to gain access to markets or capital, or as a public demonstration of environmental stewardship (Delmas 2000). For example, Ford has implemented a policy in which all suppliers shipping products to Ford must be ISO 14001 certified by July 1, 2003 (Ford Motor Company 2003). Certification is performed by an independent auditing/registrar company, and can require several days at a facility to complete. The certification . . .
. . .  there is, or is not, a statistically significant relationship between rows and columns. Page 31 - 19 - Environmental Management Analysis – Hypothesis: Facilities with an ISO 14001 certified EMS will have more comprehensive environmental management practices than facilities with a non-certified EMS. ƒ - = ected ected observed f f f X exp 2 exp 2 ) ( For this analysis, the question was to determine whether or not the ISO group responded to the environmental manager survey differently than the non- ISO group. A Chi-square probability of 0.05 or less is commonly accepted by social scientists as a basis to reject the null hypothesis that the row and column variables are unrelated. The Fisher’s Exact Test is a nonparametric test that uses a hyper-geometric distribution. It produces a p-value that is the sum of the probability of observing a given cross- tabulation for two dichotomous varia . . .
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