School Research Seminar - Hosted by Dr Danae Manika
10 February 2016
Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Venue: FB 4.04/4.08 (Lunch from 12:30pm in the kitchen)
Speaker name & affiliation
Dr Diana Gregory-Smith, Lecturer in Marketing, Sheffield University Management School
Seminar title
Assessing the social marketing planning process for an employee environmental intervention: Directions for academics and practitioners.
Abstract
Efforts to improve environmental sustainability practices within organisations, as part of their CSR initiatives, are often encouraged. However, programmes of environmental sustainability must be well designed and demonstrate noteworthy results in order to be considered successful. This paper assesses the success of an internal social marketing intervention in a large organisation, both from an academic and practitioner (who delivered the intervention) perspective. It also examines the effects of the intervention, using the social marketing planning process, on employees’ environmental behaviour. Remarks regarding the lessons learnt which could be used in the development of future social marketing interventions are discussed.