Employees’ Environmental Sustainability: A Catalyst for Sustainable Work Environment in Diminishing Deviant Workplace Behaviour

Marvellous A.C. GBEREVBIE, Anthonia A. ADENIJI, Olabode A. OYEWUNMI, Oluwakemi O. ONAYEMI, Stanley N. AJALIE and Ayodeji G. OMOTOLA

Covenant University, Ogun state, Nigeria

Abstract

As a result of the need to be sustainable, there has been a growing interest to focus on how employees’ environmental sustainability can diminish deviant workplace behaviour. Sustainable practices seek to develop a safe workplace free of all types of deviant organizational and interpersonal behaviour that could affect the progress of the business. In this paper, the researchers considered the relationship that could come out by bringing about environmental sustainable practices to diminish deviance in the workplace among employees’. Researchers and business owners are constantly pressing for a more environmentally sustainable workplace that increases the employees’ performance, well being as well as maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This conceptual paper seeks to uncover or bring a relationship linking environmental sustainability with diminishing abnormal workplace behaviour by examining employees’ environmental sustainability, its practices, and challenges, concept of deviance and Antecedents of deviance workplace behaviour with a managerial implication.

Keywords: Employees’ Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Work Environment, Deviant Workplace Behaviour.
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