Strategies to enhance waste minimization and energy conservation within organizations: a case study from the UK construction sector

Jones, Jo; Jackson, Janet; Tudor, Terry L; Bates, Margaret P

doi:10.1177/0734242x12455087

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“… Employee environmental awareness is important in terms of being aware of the organization's potential impacts and more importantly knowing their individual responsibility in helping to reduce this input. This included knowledge about recycling materials, methods of recycling and disposal processes (Boiral, ; Jones et al ., ; Tudor et al ., ) or reminders to turn off lights and computers (Schelly et al ., ). At the individual and group levels . Feedback is important both at the individual level (Staats et al ., ) and group level (Carrico and Riemer, ; Siero et al ., ).…”

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“…There was no further evidence in the literature to support this, with some studies showing changes in behaviour without changes in attitudes (Schelly et al ., ; Schwartz et al ., ). Interventions attempting to use informational techniques to induce attitude change have had mixed success with staff training having better success (Jones et al ., ). Indeed, it is likely that focusing on attitude change alone to bring about behaviour change will not achieve great success.…”

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“…() found that employees who were aware of their organization's waste management practices were more likely to act sustainably. This was also the case in a follow‐up case study in the construction sector, where a combination of training and posters increased awareness and hence recycling (Jones et al ., ). Operators in the Canadian chemical industry were more likely to improve environmental performance if made aware of their environmental duties (Boiral, ).…”

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“…In sum, employees are more likely to take responsibility for environmental sustainability practices if they get sufficient support from above, and ‘green leadership’ in organizations is helpful to support environmental sustainability (Schwartz et al ., ), as these leaders inspire cultural changes and are recognized by the employees (Jones et al ., ).…”

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Changing Behaviour: Successful Environmental Programmes in the Workplace

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There is an increasing focus on improving the pro-environmental attitudes, behaviour and habits of individuals, whether at home, in education, travelling, shopping or in the workplace. This article focuses on the workplace by conducting a multi-disciplinary literature review of research that has examined the influence of organization-based behaviour change initiatives. The review includes only research evidence that measured actual environmental performance (e.g. energy use) rather than solely using self-reported methods (e.g. questionnaires). The authors develop an 'employee pro-environmental behaviour' (e-PEB) framework, which contains individual, group, organizational and contextual factors that have predictive relevance across different behaviours and organizations. The review shows that the strongest predictors are environmental awareness, performance feedback, financial incentives, environmental infrastructure, management support and training. A key finding from this review is that attitude change is not necessarily a pre-requisite for behaviour change in the workplace.

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“…Organisations play a key role in the development of such governance strategies (Tudor, 2009;Jones et al, 2012;Wallace and Raingold, 2012). Specifically within the healthcare sector there is a growing realisation of the need for the development and effective implementation of such approaches, in order to not only ensure environmental compliance but also costs savings (Appleby, 2013;SDU, 2014;Unger and Landis, 2016;Mutters et al, 2016).…”

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Environmental audits and process flow mapping to assess management of solid waste and wastewater from a healthcare facility: an Italian case study

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In Europe, there are an increasing number of policy and legislative drivers for a more sustainable approach to the management of natural resources as well as for the mitigation of environmental health risks. However, despite significant progress in recent years, there is still some way to go to achieve circularity of process, as well as risk mitigation within organisations. Using a case study of the Gardone Val Trompia hospital in northern Italy, this manuscript offers a novel holistic examination of strategies to enhance resource efficiency and environmental health within a key sector, i.e. the healthcare sector. Through the use of environmental audits and process flow mapping, trends in waste and waste water arisings, and the associated financial and environmental costs, and risks were identified. Recommendations for developing more resource efficient approaches, as well as mitigating the environmental and public health risks are suggested. These include strategies for 1 Correspondence address: Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land, Environment and Mathematics. University of Brescia. Brescia. Italy. Mentore Vaccari; Email: mentore.vaccari@unib.it 2 improved resource efficiency (including reduction in the hazardous waste), and reduced environmental impacts during the containment, transport and treatment of the waste.

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Fifty shades of green: How microfoundations of sustainability dynamic capabilities vary across organizational contexts

2017

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Because making progress on sustainability-related challenges will require organizational change for most organizations, understanding sustainability dynamic capabilities is of utmost importance.In this theoretical paper, we aim to identify the microfoundations of such sustainability dynamic capabilities on the one hand but, consistent with recent work in this research stream, we do so in a way that is sensitive to the dynamism of the organizational environment. We propose that the microfoundations of sustainability dynamic capabilities will take different forms in different contexts. We contrast moderately dynamic contexts characterized by frequent yet relatively predictable change with highly dynamic contexts in which changes are rapid and not predictable.Achieving sustainability in these different types of contexts poses different types of challenges, relies on different forms of employee behaviors, and is consequently enabled by different individual-level characteristics and different organizational practices and processes. Our paper calls for a more serious consideration of context in investigating how employees' behaviors can affect sustainability at the organizational level, and outlines the implications for organizational policy and practice. We explore directions for future interdisciplinary research on sustainability that focuses on individuals and their interactions while also taking the environment within which organizations operate into account. KEYWORDS employee green behavior, microfoundations, pro-environmental behavior, sustainability

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Strategies to enhance waste minimization and energy conservation within organizations: a case study from the UK construction sector

Cited by 23 publications

References 22 publications

Changing Behaviour: Successful Environmental Programmes in the Workplace

Changing Behaviour: Successful Environmental Programmes in the Workplace

Environmental audits and process flow mapping to assess management of solid waste and wastewater from a healthcare facility: an Italian case study

Fifty shades of green: How microfoundations of sustainability dynamic capabilities vary across organizational contexts

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