Sustainable behaviour at work and in private life: the contribution of enterprises

Klade, Manfred; Mert, Wilma; Seebacher, Ulrike; Schultz, Irmgard

doi:10.1504/ijisd.2013.057035

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“…Since companies have evolved certain culture(s) and norms over time, it is important to consider management practices and social dynamics between employees when studying strategies of workplace greening. Thus, we complement SPT with studies on organizational learning and organizational change whose authors emphasize the value of integrating employee needs and experiences into the development of enabling structures and activities at the workplace (Hargreaves, 2008(Hargreaves, , 2011Heisserer, 2013;Klade et al, 2013;Nicolini, 2012;Nye and Hargreaves, 2010;Remmen and Lorentzen, 2000;Schultz and Seebacher, 2010). By referring to these studies, we added a fourth cross-cutting level of workplace greening: employee participation.…”

Section: Level Of Workplace Greening Enabling Structures and Activitiesmentioning

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Corporate strategies for greening the workplace: Findings from sustainability-oriented companies in Germany

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Schäfer

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Level Of Workplace Greening Enabling Structures and Activitiesmentioning

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Corporate strategies for greening the workplace: Findings from sustainability-oriented companies in Germany

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Schäfer

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…More recently, emerging research has been examining potential spillover effects of pro-environmental behaviours and attitudes between the work and home settings. People spend a large amount of their time within their homes and workplaces (Klade et al, 2013), which is why understanding the potential for spillover between these contexts plays an important role in promoting more sustainable lifestyles.…”

Section: Spillover Between the Home And The Workplace Settingsmentioning

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“…Cross-contextual spillover research, on the other hand, aims to understand how a pro-environmental behaviour in one context, such as the workplace, may spillover to other settings like the home or leisure. People spend a large amount of their day-to-day time within these settings (Klade et al, 2013) and this is why cross-contextual spillover, in addition to behavioural spillover, can provide implications for promoting sustainable lifestyles.…”

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Spillover of pro-environmental behaviour

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2018

Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour

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Introduction to the spillover effectThe aim of this chapter is threefold. Firstly, the chapter aims to introduce the term 'spillover' and its different conceptualisation, as well as providing an overview of current research developments. This chapter will overall provide the reader both a broad understanding of the different concepts of the spillover effect alongside its implications for environmentally friendy behaviours in the workplace.Secondly, the chapter aims to give an overview of underlying factors that influence spillover and a discussion of how the spillover effects might influence social marketing campaigns and behavioural change programmes that promote pro-environmental behaviours in organisations. Finally, the chapter aims to assess the methodological approaches used to investigate spillover effects, inclusive of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.The psychological concept of spillover could be simply understood as the flow and propulsion of cognitive thoughts, emotions or actions from one area to another. In relation to the latter aspect, Nillson et al. (2016: 1) consider that "the spillover effect proposes that engaging in one behavior affects the probability of engagement or disengaging in a second behaviour". The idea of the spillover effect is not new and has been applied in a number of areas such as knowledge (Acs et al., 2009), emotional conflicts between the workplace and the family (Grunberg et al., 1998; Westman, 2002) and health behaviour (Dolan and Galizzi, 2014). More recently, research in the fields of ethical marketing and environmental psychology has been investigating the spillover phenomenon in the context of sustainable lifestyles; here an increasing interest in understanding secondary behaviour Cognitive dissonance and self-perception theoryAccording to cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) people experience discomfort when holding two contrasting cognitions and are motivated to reduce the psychological uneasiness they experience. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including changing attitudes, behaviours, externalising responsibility or reducing the importance of dissonant elements (Gregory-Smith et al., 2013). In the pro-environmental context, this means a person holding pro-environmental views but acting unsustainably will experience a psychological discomfort. This may be reduced by acting in an environmentally-friendly way (Thøgersen, 2004). Therefore, the need for consistency might lead to positive spillover between environmentally-friendly behaviours and between settings. Inconsistent

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“…Lastly, Klade et al (2013) and Schultz and Seebacher (2010) adopt an everyday life perspective on sustainable consumption at the workplace, analysing ten Austrian companies regarding preconditions, measures and tools for promoting sustainable consumption at work and in private life (including health issues). Their study provides an initial understanding about offering supportive conditions, mutual learning about sustainable consumption at work and spillover into private life.…”

Section: Changing Everyday Consumption Within Organisations: Researchmentioning

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“…A prerequisite for all three kinds of interventions is integrating employees' needs and experiences and building upon their tacit knowledge about, for example, concerns such as time restrictions (Klade et al, 2013). Measures offered are likely to be more successful if shaped or re-shaped by the employees themselves (Schultz and Seebacher, 2010).…”

Section: Stabilisation Of Sustainable Consumption Practicesmentioning

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Greening the workplace: conceptualising workplaces as settings for enabling sustainable consumption

Süßbauer

Schäfer

2018

IJISD

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This conceptual paper contributes to management studies on workplace-related proenvironmental behaviour (PEB) by combining approaches from social practice theory (SPT), the settings-based approach to health promotion as well as the literature on organisational learning. From these perspectives, sustainable consumption at the workplace is seen as being embedded in daily routines which are rarely reflected upon and cannot easily be changed. We argue that companies-instead of focussing on individual attitudes and knowledge of employees-should enable them to experiment with sustainable consumption practices, provide supportive organisational and material structures, and integrate their experiences and needs in a continuous process of co-designing such an "enabling setting". We present an analytical framework that can be used to identify weaknesses of existing entrepreneurial strategies to promote PEB among employees and to conceptualise comprehensive strategies for "greening" the workplace.

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Sustainable behaviour at work and in private life: the contribution of enterprises

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Corporate strategies for greening the workplace: Findings from sustainability-oriented companies in Germany

Corporate strategies for greening the workplace: Findings from sustainability-oriented companies in Germany

Spillover of pro-environmental behaviour

Greening the workplace: conceptualising workplaces as settings for enabling sustainable consumption

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