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Linking the employee voice to a more sustainable organisation: the case of Lithuania Cover

Linking the employee voice to a more sustainable organisation: the case of Lithuania

Open Access
|Jul 2021

Abstract

During the past years, sustainability has become an idea of organisational development. There is a growing trend to focus more not only on yield and economic profit but also on the care for the environment and contribution to the social balance, simultaneously delivering economic, social, and environmental benefits. This paper aims to determine how employee voice can lead to a more sustainable organisation by examining the gap between employee preferences and the current situation. The quantitative method in the form of a survey was used to examine the role of employee voice in the journey towards a more sustainable organisation across different sociodemographic characteristics. Four-hundred-and-twelve complete responses from Lithuanian employees representing different business and public sector organisations were used for analysis. The results of empirical research revealed a significant gap between the employee voice (importance of sustainable behaviour) regarding economic, social and environmental issues and the manifested corresponding sustainable behaviour. The largest interval in values of the employee voice and the current situation was determined in the groups of sustainable environmental behaviour and sustainable economic behaviour.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2021-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2543-912X | Journal ISSN: 2543-6597
Language: English
Page range: 18 - 28
Submitted on: Nov 27, 2020
Accepted on: Jun 10, 2021
Published on: Jul 5, 2021
Published by: Bialystok University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Ramunė Čiarnienė, Milita Vienažindienė, Rūta Adamonienė, published by Bialystok University of Technology
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