Abstract
Throughout history, humans have desired to have physical comfort, mobility, enjoyment, power, and maintenance of the family and as such, people have created organisations and technologies to attain these desires. In an attempt to meet their desires, humans have negatively affected the environment over the years, which urged a focus on actively cultivating a healthy environment. The study aimed to discover if differences exist between employees’ green behaviour at the workplace along demographic lines. The demographics included gender, age, race, educational level, industry, and managerial position. The study made use of a positivistic research approach and a quantitative cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 300 employed participants obtained through non-probability convenience sampling. The study was able to replicate the two-factor structure of the BEGBS and found the majority of the demographic groups to have no differences in employee green behaviour; where differences existed, they were significantly low. The study has a favourable implication on the field of industrial psychology since it can bring forth change in the recruitment and retention of individuals that demonstrate EGB, while also adding knowledge to the existing literature. The study contributes to identifying gaps in organisations and literature on environmental sustainability and the findings could be used to fill these gaps, helping organisations finding strategies to improve EGB in the workplace.
M.Phil. (Industrial Psychology)