ISO 14001 is intended for allowing creativity and innovation in this area due to the increasing pressure of the public in what is termed 'green consumerism'. (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) the components of ISO 14001 include: (1) Preparatory environmental review; (2) Environmental policy; (3) Environmental Program; (4) Management system; (5) Management audits; and (6) Environmental Review. (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) Stated to be the "most notable feature of the formal group structures delineated in ISO 14001 is the great gulf that separates the few who formulate policies from the many charged with putting them in practice." (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) Since the aim of ISO 14001 is the development of "new and different capacities" it is necessary that all groups at all levels within the organization be "prepared to examine their own interpersonal processes, identify those of their norms and that are antithetical to the new policy goals, and fashion, new, more appropriate ones." (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) This will require that all member of the organization be prepared to have their "judgments and actions" (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) held...

The criterion required in the decision of the effectiveness of ISO 14001's environmental management system is whether the system "promotes and organization culture that places value on analysis, self-reflection, trust, honesty and change." (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) According to these authors: "Self-evidently, the standard does not fulfill the criterion." (Moxen and Strachen, 2000) the danger presented by ISO 14001 is that it has the capacity to create additional barriers to effective and creative environmental management strategies and solutions. The systems of hierarchy prescribed in ISO 14001 are very likely to effectuate what Moxen and Strachen term a "role culture" which is a culture that vests much value in tradition and precedents and observation of rules of a formal nature and is a culture that effectively places impassable barriers to creative and innovative strategic environmental management. Moxen and Strachen (2000) conclude by stating that "environmental programmes are more likely to be…