Environmental Sustainability Behaviours of Employees of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies in Tema, Ghana

Seth Cudjoe; Samuel Kwabla Alorvor; Elias Megbetor

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Environmental Sustainability Behaviours of Employees of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies in Tema, Ghana

Seth Cudjoe, Samuel Kwabla Alorvor, Elias Megbetor

Published in International Journal of Economy, Energy and Environment (Volume 6, Issue 4)

Received: 15 March 2021 Accepted: 26 March 2021 Published: 29 July 2021

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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.

Published in	International Journal of Economy, Energy and Environment (Volume 6, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijeee.20210604.11
Page(s)	76-80
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Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), Environmental Sustainability Behaviours (ESB), Employees, Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs)

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Seth Cudjoe, Samuel Kwabla Alorvor, Elias Megbetor. Environmental Sustainability Behaviours of Employees of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies in Tema, Ghana. Int J Econ Energy Environ. 2021;6(4):76-80. doi: 10.11648/j.ijeee.20210604.11

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Seth Cudjoe

Department of Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Samuel Kwabla Alorvor

Department of Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Elias Megbetor

Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Wisconsin International University College, Accra, Ghana

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Seth Cudjoe; Samuel Kwabla Alorvor; Elias Megbetor. Environmental Sustainability Behaviours of Employees of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies in Tema, Ghana. Int. J. Econ. Energy Environ. 2021, 6(4), 76-80. doi: 10.11648/j.ijeee.20210604.11

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Seth Cudjoe, Samuel Kwabla Alorvor, Elias Megbetor. Environmental Sustainability Behaviours of Employees of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies in Tema, Ghana. Int J Econ Energy Environ. 2021;6(4):76-80. doi: 10.11648/j.ijeee.20210604.11

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