Martin, Jerry (2024) What are the organisational and leadership factors that enable workplace pro-environmental behaviour (PEB)? Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Abstract
Efforts to reduce waste and to improve environmental sustainability are pivotal to the health and future survival of our planetary habitat. Workplaces can contribute to sustainability efforts in several ways, specifically through encouraging employees to engage in ‘pro-environmental behaviours’ (PEBs). PEBs are defined as specific employee decisions and actions, that aim to positively influence environmental sustainability, such as recycling, commuting transport modes, energy use and home working. While research has focused on individual drivers of PEBs in home and work contexts, less is known about the organisational factors that facilitate these behaviours. This doctoral thesis aims to examine the organisational and leadership factors that influence PEB in the workplace. First, a systematic literature review (SLR) examined what is known about the organisational factors that enable PEB. Findings from the SLR offered three key factors facilitating work PEB: Green Learning, Transformational Leadership and corporate social responsibility (CSR), providing initial evidence for organisational PEB influence and effect. Second, an empirical study conducted within the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) examined leader behaviours within leader/follower relationships. Interviews with a broad employee sample of RCN staff analysed using reflective thematic analysis (RTA), found six key enabling PEB factors: Enabling Conversations, Role Modelling, Encouraging Eco-behaviour, Challenging Behaviour to do things differently, Validating Behavioural Choices and Advocating Change. These findings provide new theoretical insights and practical implications for organisational learning and implementation. Opportunity for future research work in the development of a novel organisational PEB research measure as well as theoretical developments are also discussed.
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| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Copyright Holders: | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author, who asserts his/her right to be known as such according to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. No dealing with the thesis contrary to the copyright or moral rights of the author is permitted. |
| Depositing User: | Acquisitions And Metadata |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2024 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 15:44 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54357 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18743/PUB.00054357 |
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