CAST BRIEFING 23 - February 2024 - How can you change sustainability behaviours in your workplace? - Key messages:

Based at the University of Bath, our additional core partners are Cardiff University, the University of East Anglia, the University of York, the University of Manchester and the charity Climate Outreach. [...] The research shows that change at the top and organisational level can enable pro-environmental behaviours throughout the workforce. [...] Due to the complexity of this behavioural category and action taking longer to come about (for example waiting for a new policy or changes in norms of the workplace), they would require more employee buy-in to the goals of the organisation and a more enabling organisational environment, rather than just from their immediate supervisor. [...] Both the commitment of the employee and the level of support which they felt they received from their organisation were key predictors of distal behaviours – but not proximal behaviours. [...] We research and develop the social transformations needed to produce a low-carbon and sustainable society; at the core of our work is a fundamental question of enormous social significance: How can we as a society live differently – and better – in ways that meet the urgent need for rapid and far-reaching emission reductions? Based at the University of Bath, our additional core partners are Cardif.