As crenças ambientais de trabalhadores provenientes de empresa certificada por SGA podem predizer comportamentos pró-ambientais fora da empresa?

Abstract

The implementation and utilization of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) requires new approach for the companies, and an environmental change, even in their workers routine, environmental beliefs and in their environmental behaviors outside the company. This paper aims to analyze the differences between the environmental beliefs, considering the dichotomy anthropocentrism x ecocentrism structure in three groups of Brazilian workers: from companies certified by an EMS (n = 232), non certified (n = 153) and non certified with environmental policy (n = 169). At the same time, we verified the potential of prediction of the environmental beliefs over the environmental behaviors. The results points out that the workers from companies non certified and non certified with environmental policy mostly presented high level of anthropocentric beliefs. Furthermore, being an EMS worker and presenting ecocentric beliefs can explain some of environmental behavior factor.