Sustainability

Green values are a key part of the green work behaviour puzzle

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Organisational behaviour, Sustainability

Introduction Dr. Laura Graves and Dr. Joseph Sarkis study wanted to explore how leadership can affect individual motivation and lead to pro-environmental behaviours (PEB) at work. They also added the crucial factor of the individuals personal green values into the research. Leadership at work is known to affect employees throughout many contexts. Internal motivation is …

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Importance of the leaders vision in increasing green performance

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Organisational behaviour, Sustainability

Introduction An important type of leadership known as ‘Transformation Leadership’ facilitates the introduction of new ideas in organisations by providing vision, motivation, and intellectual simulation (see book by Bass, 1990 for more detail). Green transformational leadership then is along this same concept, but focused on environmental ideas, vision and motivation. Green performance is the innovation of …

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Nature helps humans recover faster from surgery

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Nature, Sustainability

Introduction Roger Ulrich is a professor wanted to know how nature affects humans psychologically and physiologically. His seminal research wanted to test whether we recover better when around nature. He found that we recover faster from surgery by being around nature, even something as simple as seeing a tree from your hospital window can significantly …

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Green human resource management, green culture and green behaviours

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Organisational behaviour, Sustainability

Introduction Can organisations influence the amount of green behaviours of employees by setting green goals for them? Through integrating into appraisal system the amount employee pushes for green ideas and behaves environmentally sustainably, can organisations influence the way their workforce acts? The study This study by Dumont et al. (2017) looked at the effect of …

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Unlocking green creativity with a belief in our ability

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Organisational behaviour, Sustainability

Introduction As we need to come up with new and innovative ways to tackling the emissions of our organisations, we need to encourage employee creativity. What makes people think in these new green innovative ways? What makes them come up with the new ideas that will change the future of our work and workplaces? The …

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Green organisational climates cause people to care about changing global climates

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed study), Organisational behaviour, Sustainability

Introduction Do others affect us? We are social creatures so seeing the way other people behave in a certain context affects the way we behave ourselves. Can we influence the way people behave by giving the perception that others are changing… it may even work subconsciously! The study Norton et al. (2014) research looked at …

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