Staff Motivation for Green Behaviour and Environmental Initiatives
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2022
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ICRESS
Abstract
The main purpose of the study is to assess the use of motivational tools to green behaviour of
employees and environmental initiatives in Ukrainian organizations. The results of the survey confirmed the
working hypotheses: the practice of motivating staff to green behaviour and environmental initiatives in Ukraine
has not become widespread. The research showed that a half of the organizations encourage environmental
initiatives. At the same time, owners and managers of organizations prefer intangible rewards of encouraging
employees to green behaviour and ecological initiatives. Although intangible rewards are more common in
encouraging employees to participate in environmental activities than tangible ones, the practice of using them
is still mediocre. The paper focuses on the necessity of paying more attention to both tangible and intangible
incentives of encouraging employees to environmental activities by owners and managers. The study provides
the important recommendations for encouraging employees to engage in green activities and environmental
initiatives: increasing wages, paying bonuses, providing social benefits as tangible rewards; the publication of
staff contributions to sustainable development, public recognition and awards for environmental efforts, green
activities, encouraging the receipt of certificates and awards as intangible rewards; promotion of employees who
have competencies in green management, involving employees in goal setting and the development of indicators
of the environmental activities results, green corporate culture and green leadership as efficient corporate factors.
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staff motivation, green behaviour, environmental initiatives
Citation
Tsymbaliuk S. Staff motivation for green behaviour and environmental initiatives / Svitlana Tsymbaliuk, Alla Vasylyk, Khrystyna Stoliaruk // The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational & Social Sciences (EPESS). – 2022. – Vol. 24. – P. 78–83.