A Critical Investigation of how Businesses Influence the Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours of their Employees within and beyond the Workplace: A Case Study of Waste Management

From the perspective of two sites of recycling practice, this study offers preliminary research on the influence of behaviour change techniques on employees within and beyond the workplace. A case study has been built around a prominent corporate business within the south-west of England and their capacity to successfully manage their recyclable waste streams. By identifying seventeen behaviour change techniques, the researcher has been able to recognize four influential factors which help promote positive recycling behaviours within the workplace. Concurrent discussion explores the significance of these results in terms of their use within corporate business settings and value across a wider literature. In particular highlighting their use beyond the workplace where employer governability is replaced by personal reflected factors. Furthermore, this study identifies whether behaviour change techniques used within a corporate setting resonate with the techniques used by policy makers and social scientists, to actively encourage a change in individual’s environmental behaviours in public or social settings. The literature review to this study highlights these techniques according to their economic of psychological providence