I have just finished reading David Attenborough’s witness statement: ‘A life on our planet’. I was particularly struck by the metaphor he uses to describe us – our global civilisation in the 21st century – as being synonymous with the population of Pripyat, the town that was devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The metaphor …
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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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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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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The Theory of Normative Conduct has generally focused in the public sphere looking at pro-environmental behaviours in social contexts and attributes the behaviours of individuals to the perceived social norms in that context (Cialdini et al., 1990). It is understood “that an individual will determine appropriate behaviour for themselves in a situation [by examining] the …
The second part of the sixth IPCC assessment report just came out! I know the fans have been lining up to get a sneak preview at the enthralling 3675 pages of pure adrenaline fuelled empirical scientific content. UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez described the report as “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a …
Social exchange theory is one of the most well-known theories in understanding behaviour of individuals in the workplace due to its foundations of exchange among parties involved. It has roots in anthropology, social psychology, and sociology. The core of this theory understands that relationships form when there are ‘rules of exchange’, many rules have been …
Self-determination theory is a motivational theory that assume that three main innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are the components that motivate individuals to act. Social contexts and individual differences that prevent these three needs are associated with poor motivation, performance and well-being. This theory goes into many aspects of human life and …
*** I wrote this in 2017 and is a repost from another blog old site. *** Data from the Met office, NASA and NOAA has made it official – 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded. Yet it seems that over the last few years climate change denial has only increased. The new President of the …