Humanizing sustainability in organizations: a place for workers’ perceptions and behaviors in sustainability indexes?

IF 3.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
S. Luís, I. Silva
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Abstract The triple bottom line is at risk of being reduced to an accounting tool rather than serving as a paradigm for organizational sustainability. To be successful, approaches promoting organizational sustainability should be humanized, that is, to further incorporate measures of perceptions and behaviors toward the environment, the economy, and the society in their frameworks and/or indexes of sustainability. The first goal of this work is to illustrate the importance of adopting this approach by assessing employees’ perceptions and behaviors of a banking institution highly committed to sustainability, focusing on the environmental bottom line. The second goal is to contribute to understanding of the antecedents of decisive perceptions (perceived organizational support toward the environment) and behaviors (organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment) by exploring if and/or how the relation between them is moderated by organizational policies, middle-management support, and employees’ social norms. Data analyses of an online questionnaire (N = 145) showed that employees’ perceptions and behaviors were above average and allowed tailoring intervention strategies to further promote environmental sustainability. The results further evinced that middle-management support strengthened the relation between perceived organizational support and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment. Organizational policies had a small moderating effect that became non-significant when management support was taken into account, and employees’ social norms toward the environment had no effect. This work describes a humanized and successful way of promoting sustainability in organizations through the dynamization of sustainable policies, processes, and practices by middle managers.
将组织的可持续性人性化:员工的感知和行为在可持续性指数中的地位?
三重底线有被简化为会计工具的风险,而不是作为组织可持续性的范例。为了取得成功,促进组织可持续性的方法应该人性化,即进一步将对环境、经济和社会的看法和行为的措施纳入其框架和/或可持续性指数。这项工作的第一个目标是通过评估高度致力于可持续发展的银行机构的员工的看法和行为来说明采用这种方法的重要性,重点关注环境底线。第二个目标是通过探索它们之间的关系是否和/或如何被组织政策、中层管理支持和员工的社会规范所调节,从而有助于理解决定性感知(感知到的组织对环境的支持)和行为(组织对环境的公民行为)的前因。对在线问卷(N = 145)的数据分析表明,员工的认知和行为高于平均水平,并允许定制干预策略,以进一步促进环境可持续性。研究结果进一步证明,中层管理人员的支持强化了组织支持感知与组织环境公民行为之间的关系。当考虑到管理层的支持时,组织政策有一个小的调节作用,而员工对环境的社会规范没有影响。这项工作描述了一种人性化和成功的方式,通过中层管理人员的可持续政策、流程和实践的动态化来促进组织的可持续性。
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
CiteScore
12.00
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0.00%
发文量
54
审稿时长
27 weeks
期刊介绍: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy is a refereed, open-access journal which recognizes that climate change and other socio-environmental challenges require significant transformation of existing systems of consumption and production. Complex and diverse arrays of societal factors and institutions will in coming decades need to reconfigure agro-food systems, implement renewable energy sources, and reinvent housing, modes of mobility, and lifestyles for the current century and beyond. These innovations will need to be formulated in ways that enhance global equity, reduce unequal access to resources, and enable all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives within biophysical constraints. The journal seeks to advance scientific and political perspectives and to cultivate transdisciplinary discussions involving researchers, policy makers, civic entrepreneurs, and others. The ultimate objective is to encourage the design and deployment of both local experiments and system innovations that contribute to a more sustainable future by empowering individuals and organizations and facilitating processes of social learning.
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