Çevresel Eğitimin İş Yerinde Çevre Dostu Davranış Üzerindeki Etkileri

Year 2025, Issue: 23, 62 - 83, 30.06.2025

Ceren Atliman , Melikşah Dipçin

Abstract

Çevresel sürdürülebilirlik şimdilerde çok önemli ve önemi artan bir konudur. İnsanlar bireysel ya da grup olarak Dünya’ya karşı zararlı olaylara karşı hareketteler. İnsanların harekete geçmesi ya da çevreyle ilgili bilgi alması ve çevresel sürdürülebilirlikle ilgili koordinasyon yapması için birçok seçenek var. Bu bilgilerin birçok insan için ulaşılabilir olmasına rağmen insanlar bunun için bir efor harcamayı tercih etmezler. Bu noktada insanların en çok zaman geçirdikleri yerleri olan çalışma alanlarında çalışanların hem çevre hakkında kendilerini eğitmelerini hem de çevreye ve organizasyona yararlı olmaları için anlam ifade eder. Bir organizasyonun 10 çalışanına verdiği çevresel sürdürülebilirlik eğitimi ve bu eğitimin etkilerini inceleyen bu çalışma, bu eğitim ve davranışlar üzerindeki bazı etkenleri inceler.

Keywords

çevresel sürdürülebilirlik , çevre eğitimi , çevre yanlısı davranış , durumsal faktörler , değerler ve normlar

EFFECTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING ON PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR IN THE WORKPLACE

Abstract

Environmental sustainability has become a crucial topic currently. People are taking actions individually or as a group against harmful actions toward the earth. There are many options for people to act or get some knowledge about the environment and ways to coordinate with environmental sustainability behaviours. Although this information is accessible for many people, they are not preferred to earn nor even putting an effort for that. In this point provide this information for people where they spend their most of the time of their life which is their workplace means creating an environment for employees to both educate themselves and contribute to the environment while also contributing to their organization. In this paper environmental sustainability training by an organization to 10 of their employees and its effect on employees’ pro-environmental behavior were discussed while also discussing some factors that has an impact on this training and employees’ behaviour.

Keywords

environmental sustainability , environmental training , pro environmental behavior , situational factors , values and norms

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