Abstract
Many organisations have acknowledged the call for environmental sustainability behaviours but there is little information about these behaviours exhibited by employees at the work place. The study sought to find out the environmental sustainability behaviours exhibited by employees in bulk oil distribution companies in Tema, Ghana. The objective of the study was to find out the sustainability behaviours adopted by employees and factors that influenced the decision to adopt environmental sustainability behaviours. The questionnaire survey was adopted to collect data from 50 employees of Fueltrade Limited. The survey result indicated that employees engaged in behaviours such as reducing waste, recycling and reuse of materials, proper disposal of waste, energy conservation, and the reduction in the wastage of resources. Furthermore, the results indicated that adopting environmental sustainability behaviours was to some extent fret with challenges such as lack of managerial support for the adoption of employee environmental sustainability behaviours; environmental sustainability not being a high business priority; practicing environmental sustainability behaviours takes too much time and to an extent a lack of management support for sustainability behaviours at the workplace. The study recommends among others that organisations should create environmental awareness by training and providing information to employees. Also, organisations should put in place reward systems to incentivize employees who engage in sustainability behaviours at the work place so as to motivate other employees to engage in sustainability behaviours.
Highlights
There is international consensus for the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to minimize the impact of climate change [7]
The intention to act has become increasingly vocal with world leaders agreeing at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 to phase out fossil fuel use by the end of the century [2]
We present and analyses data from the field work that sought to find out the environmental sustainability behaviours of employees of Fueltrade Limited
Summary
There is international consensus for the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to minimize the impact of climate change [7]. The oil and gas industry contributes positively to the economies of countries in a number of ways including: generating direct and indirect jobs; contributing substantial tax and other types of revenue to governments; investing in the long-term social and economic success of the communities in which they operate. In spite of these contributions, the operations of the oil and gas industry have adverse impacts on communities and the environment [1, 14]
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