The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.
The 2nd annual conference will explore sustainability best practice within organisations, creating resilience in business and ways to implement change.
Mr Dominic Piacun, Sustainability Officer at Brisbane Boys’ College joins us to discuss ‘Fostering Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for The Environment’.
More so now than ever, businesses are attempting to become more sustainable. For many established businesses though, engaging individual employees to perform more green behaviours while at work is an obstacle proving difficult to overcome. If effectively cultivated, discretionary employee green actions and behaviours are a vital element for organisations to assist them along the sustainability journey. Indeed, individual employee green behaviours have been found to significantly contribute to the wider environmental sustainability outcomes of the organisation, particularly when combined with established environmental management systems and innovations.
In some contexts, up to 70% of an employee’s green behaviour at work is discretionary. In other words, most employee green behaviour is not explicitly directed by the organisation and exists outside of formal role descriptions. Increasing this discretionary behaviour can have a significant impact on the sustainability of an organisation. Considering this, how can organisations encourage their staff to engage with these behaviours more readily? What are the barriers and drivers to discretionary employee green behaviour? This presentation will outline the barriers and drivers of employee discretionary green behaviour as well as provide some real world strategies that can foster these behaviours. The aim is to arm you with some practical solutions to help engage employees and improve the sustainability of your organisation. This information is based on a case study of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment at a large independent school in Brisbane.
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For more information on the 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference and to secure your spot today, please visit the conference website.
