Linking intended behaviour and actions: A case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS

Modelling How Managers Support Their Subordinates Toward Environmental Sustainability: A Moderated-Mediation Study

“…The association of attitude with natural environments and social norm alongside PBC offered a means to improve the prediction of employee decision to recycle. Tudor et al (2007) reported that low behavioral control in term of lack of time may affect healthcare employees' willingness to engage in sustainable waste management actions in their job. However, lack of time becomes insignificant when employees consider waste management an important issue and habitually reuse materials.…”

“…As noticed Klein and Huffman (2013) although "recycling is one of the lower-impact environmental sustainability behaviors, it still provides substantial savings to organizations " (p. 8). Surprisingly, whereas most prior research has addressed individuals' recycling behavior in non-work domains (e.g., Fiorillo , 2013;Hornik, Cherian, Madansky & Narayana, 1995;Gillespie & Bennett, 2013;Schultz, Oskamp & Mainieri, 1995;Sidique, Lupi & Joshi, 2010;Tucker & Speirs, 2003), workplace recycling remains largely overlooked, with the exception of a handle of research (Austin, Hatfield, Grindle, & Bailey, 1993;Brothers, Krantz & McClannahan, 1994;Greaves, Zibarras & Stride, 2013;Lee, De Young & Marans, 1995;MacDonald, 2011;Price & Pitt, 2012;Tudor, Barr, Gilg, 2007). Typically, these prior investigations on recycling in organizational settings have to a large extent put the emphasis on facilities, and revealed that maintaining employee willingness to use appropriate bins is an important challenge for organizations (Austin et al, Ramus (2001) has found that employees are more likely to engage in environmental initiatives on the job when they perceive that their supervisor encourages new ideas, is open-minded, provides regular training to subordinates, shares critical information, rewards efforts, and shows a sense of responsibility.…”

“…Finally, relatively few research efforts have sought to put the focus on employee environmental commitment that can contribute to maintain employee willingness to adopt conservation behavior in work settings. Tudor et al (2007) found that employees may be encouraged to recycle at job if their organization proposes relevant waste management policies, and if these employees perceived that other organizational members are also committed to protect the environmental. Further research has gone beyond results by Tudor and his colleagues.…”

Clinical Waste Segregation: Towards Implementation and Obstacles in Malaysian Private Clinics

“…The basic principles of each country's strategy about clinical waste is highly dependent on its policies and various management plans in terms of the key elements such as awareness, collection, storage system, transportation, disposal and also minimization and recycling which have to be conducted by appropriate technology considering environmental conditions of each country. To achieve a sustainable waste management policy, social progress is necessary for everyone via regeneration of communities, efficient protection of the environment, cautious usage of resources and cleaner environmental activities [15]. The various categories of healthcare waste should be segregated and collected in specific containers.…”

Avaliação de ações ecologicamente sustentáveis no processo de medicação

“…Data research shows that workers are unaware the impacts that their improper actions cause at population level, reflecting increased costs and environmental damage (8) . Another study shows that despite high percentages of staff have declared their intention to conserve properly, reuse and discard the materials, the actions were different from the desired behavior (9) . This study aimed to analyze the sustainable actions from an environmental point of view before and after interventions implemented in the medication process, from prescription receipt by the pharmacy to waste discard performed by nurses.…”