Sustainable behaviour: evidence from Lithuania

Ramunė Čiarnienė; Milita Vienažindienė; Rūta Adamonienė

doi:10.2478/emj-2020-0007

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Sustainable behaviour: evidence from Lithuania

Engineering Management in Production and Services

Volume 12 (2020): Issue 1 (March 2020)

By: Ramunė Čiarnienė , Milita Vienažindienė and Rūta Adamonienė

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|May 2020

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Characteristi cs of sustainable behaviour
Source: elaborated by the authors based on (Tapia-Fonllem et al., 2013).

Theoretical conceptual model of the sustainable behaviour of employees

Tab. 1

Population and sample size calculation

POPULATION THOUSAND SIZE	CONFIDENCE LEVEL %	CONFIDENCE INTERVAL	SAMPLE SIZE
1388.9*	95	5	384

[i] *The number of employees (1st quarter of 2019)

Tab. 2

Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents

	GENERATION (THE YEAR RESPONDENTS WERE BORN)
CHARACTERISTICS (N (%))	BABY BOOM 1944-1964	GENERATION X 1965-1981	GENERATION Y/ MILLENNIALS 1982-2002	TOTAL
Sample	128 (31.1%)	124 (30,1%)	160 (38.8%)	412
Female	80 (62.5%)	76 (61.3%)	76 (47.5%)	232 (56.3%)
Male	48 (37.5%)	48 (38.7%)	84 (52.5%)	180 (43.7%)

Tab. 3

Effects of generation, gender and education on economically sustainable behaviour

	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	GENERATION			F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	BABY BOOM^A	GENERATION X^B	GENERATION Y^C	F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
Generation			3.84 (0.58)	3.67 (0.56)	3.68 (0.51)	F=4,175, p=0.016	0.020
Generation	Post hoc comparisons		F=10,559, p=0.001			p=0.033 ^a-b p=0.041 ^a-c p=0.968 ^b-c
Gender	Female	3.81 (0.57)	0.026
Gender	Male	3.63 (0.52)	0.026
Generation x gender	Female		3.96 (0.49)	3.65 (0.66)	3.81 (0.51)	F=4,350, p=0.014	0.021
	Male		3.65 (0.66)	3.71 (0.38)	3.58 (0.49)	F=4,350, p=0.014
	Post hoc comparisons		p=0.001	p=0.454	p=0.007
Education	University education ^d	3.72 (0.54)				F=4,209, p=0.016	0.021
	College education ^e	3.63 (0.57)
	Secondary education ^f	3.97 (0.53)
	Post hoc comparisons					p=0.971 ^d-e p=0.019 ^d-f p=0.019 ^e-f
Generation x education	University education ^d		3.93 (0.53)	3.57 (0.55)	3.65 (0.50)	F=8,189, p<0.001	0.077
	College education ^e		3.23 (0.43)	3.89 (0.54)	3.77 (0.49)
	Secondary education ^f		4.00 (0.66)	4.19 (0.29)	3.86 (0.55)
	Post hoc comparisons		p<0.001 ^d-e p=0.700 ^d-f p=0.001 ^e-f	p=0.013 ^d-e p=0.001 ^d-f p=0.171 ^e-f	p=0.528 ^d-e p=0.191 ^d-f p=0.673 ^e-f

Tab. 4

Effects of generation, gender and education on environmentally sustainable behaviour

	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	GENERATION			F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	BABY BOOM^A	GENERATION X^B	GENERATION Y^C	F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
Generation			3.88 (0.54)	3.72 (0.51)	3.64 (0.54)	F=7,432, p=0.001	0.035
Generation	Post hoc comparisons		F=14,413, p<0.001			p=0.050 ^a-b p<0.001 ^a-c p=0.669 ^b-c
Gender	Female	3.83 (0.55)	0.034
Gender	Male	3.63 (0.50)	0.034
Generation x gender	Female		4.02 (0.46)	3.73 (0.59)	3,73 (0,57)	F=3,258, p=0.039	0.016
	Male		3.66 (0.60)	3.71 (0.37)	3,56 (0,50)	F=3,258, p=0.039
	Post hoc comparisons		p<0.001	p=0.880	p=0.047
Education	University education ^d	3.73 (0.54)				F=3,551, p=0.030	0.017
	College education ^e	3.63 (0.54)
	Secondary education ^f	3.94 (0.55)
	Post hoc comparisons					p=0.640 ^d-e p=0.084 ^d-f p=0.028 ^e-f
Generation x education	University education ^d		3.98 (0.49)	3.65 (0.50)	3.60 (0.53)	F=8,128, p<0.001	0.075
	College education ^e		3.25 (0.37)	3.84 (0.53)	3.85 (0.47)
	Secondary education ^f		3.94 (0.69)	4.21 (0.22)	3.84 (0.57)
	Post hoc comparisons		p<0.001 ^d-e p=0.857 ^d-f p=0.002 ^e-f	p=0.146 ^d-e p=0.003 ^d-f p=0.083 ^e-f	p=0.171 ^d-e p=0.054 ^d-f p=0.934 ^e-f

Tab. 5

Effects of generation, gender and education on socially sustainable behaviour

	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	GENERATION			F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
	CATEGORY	MEAN (ST.D.)	BABY BOOM^A	GENERATION X^B	GENERATION Y^C	F, P	PARTIAL ETA ²
Generation			3.87 (0.61)	3.72 (0.51)	3.68 (0.56)	F=4,145, p=0.017	0.020
Generation	Post hoc comparisons		F=49,480, p<0.001 0.108			p=0.147 ^a-b p=0.015 ^a-c p=1.000 ^b-c
Gender	Female	3.91 (0.57)
Gender	Male	3.52 (0.52)
Generation x gender	Female		4.11 (0.50)	3.82 (0.56)	3.78 (0.60)	F=5,752, p=0.003	0,028
	Male		3.47(0.58)	3.48 (0.43)	3.58 (0.52)	F=5,752, p=0.003
	Post hoc comparisons		p<0.001	p=0.001	p=0.020
Education	University education ^d	3.75 (0.58)				F=3,270 p=0.039	0.016
	College education ^e	3.56 (0.57)
	Secondary education ^f	3.87 (0.58)
	Post hoc comparisons					p=0.111 ^d-e p=0.649 ^d-f p=0.043 ^e-f
Generation x education	University education ^d		4.00 (0.56)	3.65(0.53)	3.62 (0.56)	F=11,956, p<0.001	0,106
	College education ^e		3.16 (0.33)	3.65 (0.59)	4.13 (0.13)
	Secondary education ^f		3.50 (0.67)	4.25 (0.00)	3.88 (0.58)
	Post hoc comparisons		p<0.001 ^d-e p=0.011 ^d-f p=0.143 ^e-f	p=0.994 ^d-e p=0.003 ^d-f p=0.008 ^e-f	p=0.011 ^d-e p=0.051 ^d-f p=0.270 ^e-f

Sustainable behaviour from the perspective of a generation

Sustainable behaviour from the perspective of a gender

Sustainable behaviour from the perspective of education

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2020-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2543-912X (formerly 2300-0813) | Journal ISSN: 2543-6597

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Language: English

Page range: 80 - 92

Submitted on: Oct 1, 2019

Accepted on: Feb 15, 2020

Published on: May 10, 2020

Published by: Bialystok University of Technology

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

sustainability,

employee-related factors,

sustainable behaviour

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Industries,

Transportation, logistics, air traffic, shipping,

Engineering,

Mechanical engineering,

Production technology,

Process engineering and industrial engineering

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