3.3. Practical Application of IO-P and SHRM
How can an organization create green knowledge, awareness, facts, mental models, stories, fiction, perceptions and paradigms that use SHREM and IO-P principles to boost employee accountability and uphold a natural inkling to green policies and practices within the organization? Studies attest to positive employee green behaviour when they are undertaking some kind of training and or education program on eco sustainability, green culture and pro environmental organizational climate [21]. Recent training programs are moving away from ordinary courses that emphasize technicality and corporate regulations; however, there are also hindrances to training and education. Research shows that readiness to learn could either have a positive or negative bearing on the employees [21]. The present paper suggests that this can be overcome by adopting IO-P and SHREM underpinnings that arouse employees’ interest and passion for greening their job tasks and the organization as a whole. Ford asserts that mere availability of training prospects psychologically stimulates curiosity. Therefore, the next step should be how to design a relevant and dynamic education or training course that will impel green behaviour that sips through all life experiences and aspects of employees. How can IO-P be maximized for eco sustainability? What type of expected (a) change, (b) readiness to change and (c) capacity to change variables should be considered that promote eco sustainability are some of the research questions this paper attempts to address. Work psychologists and resource managers agree that the most underutilized asset is knowledge and the inability to transform it into wealth and profits. Miles, Miles and Snow have suggested that knowledge creation and utilization can be acquired via interaction of worldwide villages of collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship [22]. IO-P can explore this approach to create green knowledge that can be reduced into eco conscious goods and services. Organizational Development (OD) is a method for facilitating change and development in workers (styles, values and skills) in technology (greater, simplicity or complexity) and within organizational processes and structures (relationships and roles) with the goal of human fulfilment and optimizing task accomplishment [23]. OD provides a framework of thinking about planned change that focus on techno structural changes such as job enrichment and social technical systems. Further still, it is preoccupied with the interdependency, interconnectedness and interrelatedness of the parts within the organization that consist the whole. Additionally, OD highlights the concept of readiness to change. This refers to the extent to which employees believe that change is needed to improve current conditions [24]. There are four stages of readiness to change analysis; (a) content, what is to be changed, (b) process, how is it to be achieved? (c) Context, related to the circumstances under which it occurs, and lastly (d) individual traits, investigating cognitive and emotional acceptance or rejection to change. Backgrounds for readiness to change (reputation and image) and capacity to change (knowledge, skills, relationships, leadership and resources) are factors that should not be taken lightly not to mention the assimilation processes.