Green Team Research Articles

Shared Transformational Leadership for Green Architecture Engineering and Construction Project Teams: A Study of LEED Projects

Green architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects are deemed more complicated compared with their traditional counterparts. They have been reported to have relatively more frequent delays and higher cost growth. The AEC literature has repeatedly highlighted the importance of leadership for sustainable design and construction and the need for team integration for optimal outcomes. However, studies exploring leadership in the context of green AEC projects are limited. Transformational leadership is a highly regarded theory that is known for its potential to effectively facilitate team integration. This empirical study tests the role of shared transformational leadership received by team members in improving team performance through team integration for green AEC project teams. We collected data from 103 individuals working in nine Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects in the US. We analyzed the data using structural equation modeling (SEM). Our findings suggest that transformational leadership received by team members is positively related with perceived team performance, and this relationship is mediated through perceived team integration. The study is a pioneer in examining leadership for sustainability and mediation effects of team integration in the AEC literature. The outcomes urge for a change in green AEC project teams to think beyond project delivery systems and practices and incorporate transformational leadership across organizational and communicational tiers of project teams through team procurement, project management, and skill development and training.

Health care contribution to the climate crisis. Green operating room and green team

article: Health care contribution to the climate crisis. Green operating room and green team - Gazzetta Medica Italiana - Archivio per le Scienze Mediche 2022 October;181(10):792-3 - Minerva Medica - Journals

A Personal Perspective on My Scientific Career

A Personal Perspective on My Scientific Career

The Sustainable Green Team signs agreement with VRM Biologik Group to revolutionize the organic waste & soil health industry

The Sustainable Green Team signs agreement with VRM Biologik Group to revolutionize the organic waste & soil health industry

Team Creativity and Green Human Resource Management Practices’ Mediating Roles in Organizational Sustainability

The study of green human resource management (GHRM) can help with the creation of organizational strategies that are sustainable for businesses. The main purpose of this research was to examine the underlying strategies for enhancing green teams’ creativity as well as green human resource management practices and their effects on the sustainability of companies. We contribute to filling this gap by developing and testing a set of hypotheses in order to provide a first attempt at analyzing the antecedents and outcomes of green team creativity (GTC) and green human resource management practice (GHRM) in Saudi organizations. A questionnaire survey served as the primary method of data collection for the green team creativity and green human resource management practice studies. A total of 198 Saudi Arabian employees from one company completed the data gathering form, and the data were analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) 3.3.3. Quantitative structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the results. The analysis showed that independent variables positively influence green team creativity and green human resource management practices, which in turn have a significant positive impact on organizational sustainability. The results also provide evidence for the mediating effect of team creativity and green human resource management practice on the links between green recruitment and selection; green training, involvement, and development; green performance and compensation; green performance management and appraisal; green employee involvement practices; top management support and environmental orientation; and organizational sustainability. The implications of these results for theory and HRM practices in Saudi organizations are taken into consideration.

Sustainable work in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine

The climate crisis is omnipresent and one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. In the position paper "Ecological sustainability in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine", the Professional Association of German Anesthesiologists (BDA) and the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI) made specific recommendations which contribute to a consistent and sustainable reduction in CO2 emissions. This article highlights the aspects of the position paper which the authors believe can be easily implemented in clinical practice and have a major effect on reducing CO2 emissions. The recommendations focus on the topics of medication, medical products, waste management, mobility, energy management, research and teaching with practical examples and results from the Green Team (Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn) and from the toolkit of the DGAI/BDA. Ways are shown to limit inhalation anesthetic-caused CO2-emissions, to reduce drug waste, to change single-use for reusable materials and to develop sustainable waste concepts.

Implementation of a More Sustainable Waste Management Policy in the Operating Room.

The waste produced by an operating room represents on average 20 to 30% of the waste of a health institution.1 At the Toulouse University Hospital (Toulouse, France), more than 100 tons of waste are produced per month.In 2020, only noninfectious waste and infectious waste existed within our institution in terms of waste sorting. There was no recycling channel, and nearly 40% of the waste from the operating room was treated as infectious waste (fig. 1, A and B).The treatment of infectious waste is more expensive than that of noninfectious waste in terms of cost (1 ton of noninfectious and infectious waste costs 270€ and 720€, respectively, to treat at the Toulouse University Hospital) and carbon dioxide impact, because the treatment of 1 ton of noninfectious waste corresponds to 362 kg of CO2 compared to 934 kg of CO2 for infectious waste in France.2 We have set up a policy of better waste management within our university hospital with the objective of reducing the proportion of waste treated as infectious waste on the one hand, and, on the other hand, identifying reusable materials by setting up channels for the treatment of recyclable waste.First, to reduce the amount of waste treated as infectious waste, staffs were made aware of the cost of treating this waste, the recommendations of the institution’s health care–associated infectious risk prevention unit were updated, and the members of the green teams accompanied the teams in the field to gradually modify practices and improve sorting.The second objective was to identify reusable waste. To do this, the teams specializing in waste management worked in the operating room to improve their knowledge of the care-related waste generated by the operating room activity. Subsequently, specific partnerships were established with various service providers (copper, laryngoscope blades, cardboard, bottles, etc.), and we reorganized the operating rooms to facilitate waste sorting. As an example, our green dynamic allowed us to reduce infectious waste and total carbon dioxide production with a consequent reduction in costs (fig. 1).The implementation of the recycling channels in 2021 enabled the sorting of more than 60 tons of waste in the first year, with near 2 tons of precious metals (laryngoscope blades, aluminum packaging, and copper cables), 15 tons of plastics, 5.9 tons of paper, and 35.9 tons of cardboard. The perspectives of our work are to continue and extend the green project to the other departments of the university hospital, to reduce the global quantity of waste by setting up “custom packs” specific to each surgical procedure, and to avoid overconsumption by educating the staff and raising awareness on a daily basis.3The authors thank all the green teams who have worked to support the staff of the Toulouse University Hospital (Toulouse, France), and particularly the staff of the operating room, in their efforts to improve waste management practices. The authors also thank Dr. Jean-Marie Conil, M.D., Ph.D., Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, for his help in reviewing the statistics.Support was provided solely from institutional and/or departmental sources.Dr. Labaste has received funding from SANOFI (Paris, France) unrelated to this publication. The other authors declare no competing interests.

Vietnam general contractors’ perceptions on challenges to the delivery of green building projects

This study focuses mainly on investigating differences in Southern and Northern general contractors’ perception of challenges in executing green building projects. The questionnaire survey-based data analysis results show that there is a good consensus between general contractors (GCs) from these two regions on the top two most critical challenges in delivering green building projects. They are “lacking of legal regulations and technical codes on green building”, and “more difficult to early establish a competent, integrated, and multidisciplinary green building project team”. Additionally, the Mann-Whitney U-test reveals that there are a significant difference on perception of the GCs from Northern as compared with those from Southern on the five challenges, including “shortage of reliable green building materials, technologies, and equipment in the market”, “lack of reliable suppliers of green products, materials, equipment”, “lack of appropriate tools/laboratories specific for testing, assessing, measuring, and inspecting the green performance of construction products”, “difficulty in selecting and managing subcontractors”, and “difficult in comprehending the green specifications”. The study may be beneficial not only for the central policymakers but also for the local governments, industrial practitioners and project stakeholders to gain a better understanding of the major challenges in executing green building projects at local or regional level. As a result, the study proposed many solutions specific for each of these regions to promote the development of the local green building industry.

Green Tourism Implementation to Create an Environmentally Friendly Accommodation

Purpose: This study aims to describe the application of green tourism at a 5-star hotel located in Jimbaran, Bali, in creating an environmentally friendly accommodation.Research methods: This is a type of qualitative research. The approach method used in this research is descriptive analysis.Results and discussion: Generally, the implementation of green tourism standards at the hotel has implemented environmentally friendly practices but in are several obstacles in its implementation.Implication: The obstacles the hotel needs to overcome are doing socialization-training activities, building commitment, forming a green team, and implementing a green tourism marketing strategy

Team Perceptions of Green HRM and Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Green Team Behaviors

Organizations are increasingly pressured to contribute to a greener society and to improve team performance. Research shows that by adopting green human resource management (green HRM), organizations foster green work behaviors and improve green workplace performance. However, whether this also applies to non-green workplace outcomes such as performance in a team context remains a question that is unexplored. This research addresses this gap by examining whether green HRM is related to performance through the mediating effect of green work behaviors at the team level. Analyses of the multi-sourced data from 63 teams show that team perceptions of green HRM are indeed related to team performance through the mediating effect of green team behaviors (i.e., in- and extra-role behaviors). This study discusses how the findings offer important implications for green HRM research and practice.

Underperforming Teams in Organizational Transformations: Specific Hand-Holding Required

Organizational transformation refers to the actions where a company or business changes a major component of its organization, which in turn influences organizational performance. In the literature, there is an abundance of study on underperforming teams in organizational transformation. However, little is known on the parameters of an organizational transformation processes in those teams. In an earlier study, we divided teams performance-wise into Green (best), Amber (caution), and Red (worst) teams to signify different scale ratings. Herein, we compare what transformational parameters the red teams differed from the amber and green teams. We analyzed 3,133 teams in 454 different transformations. Our research findings show that the red team members seemed much less aware and informed about the transformation having unrealistic ambitions about improving their situation. After a management target had been set, the Red teams had (expectedly) more items to work on than Green and Amber. However, this extra work was focused on a much smaller group of team members. Finally, this study may help to focus management attention in an organizational transformation further.

KEBIJAKAN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER PADA SEKOLAH ADIWIYATA

The moral decadency of our people especially the teenagers in apprehensived, among others, the rise of free sex and drug abuse. The data showed as many as 63% of teens commit free sex, the victims of narcotic are 1.1 million people or 3,9% of the total number of victim. Mean while the school of Adiwiyata is a good place and ideal for acquiring all of sciences and the various norms and ethics that can be the foundation of people towards the creation of prosperity life to the ideals of sustainable development.
 The focus of this study are: (1) Policy of the principle of SMPN 1 Larangan and MTsN Pareteker Pamekasan in the management and implementation of enviromental-based character education. (2) factor that influence the SMPN 1 Larangan and MTsN Parteker Pamekasan was`awarded the schools Adiwiyata. The research approach used is the qualitative approach, and type of research is the multi case study.
 The results of this research are as follow: (1) the retrieval policy model is taken by SMPN 1 Larangan and MTsN Parteker Pamekasan are almost the same through meeting model with all stakeholder. The policy was decided in SMPN 1 Larangan i.e. religious life, LISA (see junk grab), a culture of healthy living and clean by working together, and the children’s foster care. The policy taken in MTsN Parteker Pamekasan i.e. religious life through Dhuha prayer, clean healthy living and working together, one teacher one tree, go green teams and foster care. (2) the factor supporting the existence of together and understanding among the citizens of the school, while the resistor is class VII which less care with higyne

Measuring the effect of sustainability programs on interest in STEM disciplines: a pre-post survey study of the student green team internship program

Measuring the effect of sustainability programs on interest in STEM disciplines: a pre-post survey study of the student green team internship program

Teamwork makes the net-work: participant-governed networks and athletics sustainability collaboration

PurposeAthletic departments play an important role in sustainability-based collaborative processes due to their boundary spanning connections with both internal and external university stakeholders. As a result, athletic department representatives have become prominent members of university participant-governed network structures. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of dedicated “athletics green teams” as a unique form of control and coordination by considering how green team interactions support and augment the collaborative network of actors who are responsible for executing athletics sustainability practices on university campuses.Design/methodology/approachA sociocentric analysis is used to explore the network of a green team at a large American university. The analysis focuses on examining the size, composition and structure of relations involving green team members that facilitated various forms of information transmission and strategic action(s).FindingsThe results highlight how the presence of the athletic department in the green team provides heterophilous and multiplex relations across the collaborative network and how the green team itself provides a unique forum for planning and coordination, which is critical for providing more sophisticated, advanced structures for sustainability.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study should reassure practitioners involved in convening green teams that such shared governance structures add value to athletics sustainability collaborative processes. In addition, subtle changes to the network governance structures has the potential to streamline the contribution of athletic departments to university sustainability initiatives and help project a more cohesive “Athletics” sustainability message that transmits across the collaborative network.Originality/valueThe outcomes of dedicated athletics green teams have been explored from a largely qualitative perspective. However, this study applies a novel relational approach to understand the shared governance value-added within a largely intra-organizational collaborative network.

Relationships, Decisions, and Physical Effort in the Marro Traditional Sporting Game: A Multimodal Approach.

The purpose of this study was to examine the players’ decisions-making in Marro (a Traditional Sporting Game) through a multimodal approach. Each player’s decision-making assumes specific accelerations and decelerations associated with different effort. The research objectives were: (i) to study the decision-making associated with the roles of Hunter and Hare; (ii) to know the physical effort by the roles (Hunters and Hares); (iii) to reveal T-Patterns in the multimodal strategic approach (integrated with decisions and different physical effort) with a direct incidence on the scoring by roles. The study was performed with 22 male and 2 female players aged 18 to 25 (M = 19.4; SD = 1.3). The Marro game was played by two groups for eight minutes. An observational methodology was used, through a type III design. The observational design was nomothetic, one-time, and multidimensional. An ‘ad hoc’ tool was built to ensure the data quality. Univariate analyses were performed using Crosstabs Command, with adjusted residuals (AR), Classification Trees (Chaid model) and T-Pattern Analysis (TPA). Significant differences were found between matches using the scoring (p < 0.001; ES = 0.26), role (p < 0.001; ES = 0.31), or the organic variables of the study, the speed (p < 0.001; ES = 0.73), the metabolic power and the acceleration/deceleration the speed (p = 0.023; ES = 0.43), while the predictive model pointed to the variable role (p < 0.001) as the main factor responsible for the model growth. TPA (p < 0.005) revealed differences attributable to internal logic in the yellow (first match) and orange (second match) teams, while organic variables were more changeable in the violet (first match) and green (second match) teams. This study advances the individualization of the decision-making process. These results may be useful to better understand the internal of functioning of the Marro game 360° since the use of various methodologies and variables (multimodal approach) provided original findings.

Sustainability Initiatives in the Operating Room.

Operating rooms (ORs) contribute up to 30% of a hospital's waste, are very resource-intensive, and thus provide an opportunity for improvement. A narrative review was conducted, searching MEDLINE, EMBASE, and ProQuest databases. The study included 78 of the 108 published articles. The researchers identified and categorized articles according to the following major themes: Committee and Leadership; Waste Reduction; Segregating OR waste; Minimizing unnecessary devices and packaging; Reducing energy consumption; Choosing anesthetic gases; Education; Reducing water consumption; Different surgical venues; Donating medical supplies. Formation of an OR committee or a hospital Green Team dedicated to environmentally sustainable initiatives can significantly improve health care's impact on the environment while saving money. Changes in supply chain with preferences for reusable devices, effective recycling, repurposing instruments, and donating items can all be effective means of diverting waste away from landfills. Reducing unnecessary packaging and instruments would eliminate excess in the waste stream. Curtailing energy and water usage results in cost and environmental savings. Surgical venue (inpatient vs. outpatient surgical center) can also contribute to waste. Transitioning away from certain inhaled anesthetics can minimize greenhouse gas impact. Education to all levels in the health care system is important to drive change and maintain change. Optimizing efficiency and decreasing waste generation can have a positive impact on the environment and can be accompanied by cost reduction. Because the field of sustainability in health care is young but burgeoning, increased research is needed to support evidence-based approaches.

Working Paper 37: The Green Corruption paradox

This Working Paper details the findings of a survey of Indonesians’ perceptions of corruption, the economy and the environment in July 2021.&#x0D; The survey was a joint initiative of the Green Corruption team at the Basel Institute on Governance and leading Indonesian pollster Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI). It consisted of a national public opinion survey covering 2,580 respondents and in-depth interviews with 30 private-sector representatives working in various natural resource sectors.&#x0D; The survey reveals what we call the Green Corruption paradox: Conflicting, and arguably mutually exclusive, views on all three topics can co-exist. Despite seeing the presence of and being deeply concerned about corruption and environmental degradation, people tend to focus on livelihoods when times are hard. &#x0D; People also, according to the survey data, favour economic structures that appear to channel the benefits of natural resource utilisation more directly to citizens. In Indonesia, this means rejecting private companies – particularly foreign-owned – in favour of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and people’s cooperatives.&#x0D; The report ends with five key recommendations that can inform Indonesian policy and the interventions of donors and civil society organisations concerned with conservation, anti-corruption and sustainable development.&#x0D; This research was made possible with the generous support of the American people through the USAID CEGAH programme.

Pursuing Excellence: Integrating Clinical Learning Environment Staff and Learners Into the Pursuit of Quality, Safety, Equity, and Value

<i>Pursuing Excellence</i>: Integrating Clinical Learning Environment Staff and Learners Into the Pursuit of Quality, Safety, Equity, and Value

Towards smart green wall maintenance and Wallbot technology

PurposeThe UN forecast of a 3-degree Celsius global temperature increase by 2,100 will exacerbate excessive heat. Population growth, urban densification, climate change and global warming contribute to heat waves, which are more intense in high-density environments. With urbanisation, vegetation is replaced by impervious materials which contribute to the urban heat island effect. Concurrently, adverse health outcomes and heat- related deaths are increasing, and heat stress affects labour productivity. More green infrastructure, such as green walls, is needed to mitigate these effects; however maintenance costs, OH&S issues and perceptions of fire risk inhibit take up. What if these barriers could be overcome by a green Wallbot? This research examines the feasibility of integrating smart technology in the form of a Wallbot.Design/methodology/approachThe research design comprised two workshops with key stakeholders; comprising green wall designers and installers, green wall maintenance teams, project managers and building owners with green wall installations, horticulture scientists, designers and mechatronics engineers. The aim was to gain a deeper understanding of the issues affecting maintenance of green walls on different building types in New South Wales Australia to inform the design of a prototype robot to maintain green walls.FindingsThe Wallbot has great potential to overcome the perceived barriers associated with maintaining green walls and also fire risk and detection. If these barriers are addressed, other locations, such as the sides of motorways or rail corridors, could be used for more green wall installations thereby increasing mitigation of UHI. This innovation would be a welcome addition to smart building technology and property maintenance.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a pilot study, and the sample of stakeholders attending the workshops was small, though experienced. The range of green walls is varied, and it was decided to focus initially on a specific type of green wall design for the prototype Wallbot. Therefore other types and sizes of green walls may suit other specifications of Wallbot design.Practical implicationsTo date, no robot exists that maintains green walls, and this innovative research developed a prototype for trialling maintenance and inspection.Originality/valueTo date, no robot exists that maintains green walls. No study to date has assessed stakeholder perceptions and developed prototype Wallbot technology.

Environmental-specific servant leadership as a strategic tool to accomplish environmental performance: a case of China

PurposeThe Chinese firms are keenly focused on reducing their environmental footprints as part of the competitive strategy. Within the context of sustainable organizations in China, we test a multilevel framework that examined the impact of environmental-specific servant leadership on the green individual (pro-environmental behavior) and team (project green performance) outcomes within projects. Using social identity theory, we theorize and test the mediating role of green self-identity (individual level) and team green identification (team level) in the relationships between environmental-specific servant leadership, pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Design/methodology/approachWe used survey questionnaires to collect multi-level and multi-wave data from 42 ongoing project-based sustainable organisations in China. The multilevel team to individual-level hypothesis were analyzed using multilevel-modeling via Mplus, while team level hypotheses were tested using ordinary least squares regression.FindingsThe multilevel regression analysis showed that environmental-specific servant leadership has a trickle-down effect of green self-identity, which subsequently predicts pro-environmental behavior. The ordinary least squares regression results demonstrated that environmental-specific servant leadership predicts project green performance via team green identification. Also, environmental-specific servant leadership has a positive and direct impact on pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Research limitations/implicationsWe offer community and service dimension of leadership as a determinant of environmental performance at multiple levels. We provide managerial and policy implications to Chinese organizations striving to reposition themselves as eco-friendly organizations both nationally and globally.Originality/valueThe study is among the first to understand the role of environmental-specific servant leadership in predicting individual-level and team-level environment-related mediator and outcomes simultaneously.