Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma NaukoweDoes my employer care about my garbage? The relationship between pro‑environmental actions in the workplace and employees’ behaviour at home
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https://doi.org/10.26881/ibage.2025.44.02Słowa kluczowe:
plastic reduction, pro‑environmental behaviour, households, workplaceAbstrakt
Drawing on a survey conducted among employees of companies located in a non‑developed country, this article seeks to determine whether there is a relation between actions connected to plastic waste reduction undertaken in the workplace and pro‑environmental behaviours in the household. The amount of plastic waste is becoming a global problem, and we believe that effective solutions demand the cooperation of business, society and public authorities. Although, the issue of excessive plastic waste is already well established in the academic literature, the question of the impact of pro‑environmental actions undertaken at work on employees’ behaviour at home is not sufficiently addressed to be solved. Along with standard statistical measures, we conducted logistic regressions. We found that both the number, along with the type of anti‑plastic actions in the workplace, have a positive influence on the employees’ willingness to reduce the use of plastic in their households. Furthermore, we found that the most meaningful actions are those aimed at increasing employees’ awareness regarding the plastic waste.
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