Green Office Practices: Sustainability Approaches in Office Management

Year 2025, Volume: 5 Issue: Special Issue (SI) IXASC 2025, 102 - 115, 31.08.2025

Songül Demirkan

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the awareness, perception, and experiences of the faculty members working in the Office Services and Secretarial Department in Türkiye regarding green office applications. In the study, the faculty members’ perspectives on the concept of green office, the place of green office applications in education, their application experiences, and their views on the future were investigated. The research was conducted with the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, and a structured interview form was used as the data collection tool. The study group consists of faculty members who have been working for five years. The data were analyzed using the content analysis method, two researchers were asked to theme the data to ensure reliability, and the agreement percentage (89%, 91%) was calculated. According to the research results, green office applications are addressed in the context of environmental and economic sustainability, and the emphasis on social sustainability remains limited. Green office applications, which are associated with functions such as efficiency in resource use, environmental awareness, and corporate responsibility, are not given sufficient space in education programs, and there is a lack of systematic information. In this context, the research makes an original contribution to the field with suggestions regarding sustainability-oriented regulations in office management education and its adaptation to vocational education.

Keywords

Green Office Practices , Office Management , Sustaiability

References

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