Employee-Driven Sustainability Performance Assessment in Public Organisations

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Organisations are increasingly adopting sustainability performance assessment tools. However, these formal organisational sustainability assessments are typically managed and prepared by technical staff. There is a lack of research on approaches that enable a stakeholder-driven performance assessment. This paper develops a framework of informal/complementary stakeholder-driven sustainability performance assessment, from the perspective of employee voluntary collaboration. The framework composes a checklist of questions covering the main sustainability domains: perceptions, individual practices, and voluntary monitoring indicators. In an exploratory case study in a public organisation, the checklist was evaluated by employees in a participatory workshop. The evaluation criteria of understanding and usefulness were rated more positively than reliability. This paper shows a novel way of integrating employee inputs for informal sustainability assessment and supports the importance of empowering public organisations, thereby increasing their understanding of sustainability management frameworks.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Coutinho, V. Domingues, A.R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-3889 Caeiro, S. Painho, M. Antunes, P. Santos, R. Videira, N. Walker, R.M. Huisingh, D. Ramos, T.B.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Coutinho, V., Domingues, A. R., Caeiro, S., Painho, M., Antunes, P., Santos, R., Videira, N., Walker, R. M., Huisingh, D., and Ramos, T. B. (2018) Employee-Driven Sustainability Performance Assessment in Public Organisations. Corp. Soc. Responsib. Environ. Mgmt., 25: 29–46, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1438. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
Keywords:	sustainable development, performance assessment, public organisations, internal stakeholders, empowerment
Dates:	Accepted: 26 May 2017 Published (online): 29 July 2017 Published: 29 January 2018
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds)
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2024 12:58
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2024 11:49
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Wiley
Identification Number:	10.1002/csr.1438
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214845

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