The Development of Employees’ Green Competencies Through Sustainable Business Practices

Green competencies (GCs) are recognised in the business management literature as those related to all the dimensions of the concept of sustainable development (SD). However, the relationship between GCs and sustainable business practices (SBPs) is not well defined; GCs are often presented in the context of selected organisational activities or the sector of the economy. This paper aims to present the influence of SBPs on employees’ GCs in the transport and logistics sector. To achieve this goal, the combination of the methods was employed. First, a classical and semi-bibliometric literature review was undertaken to explore the connection between GCs and SBPs in the literature. Subsequently, the collection of good sustainable practices gathered by the Polish business ethics organisation Forum Odpowiedzialnego Biznesu [Responsible Business Forum] (FOB) was re-analysed qualitatively and quantitatively as a source of SBPs in subjective and objective focus. The analysis of the secondary data collected in FOB indicated those SBPs which influence employees’ GCs in the transport and logistics sector. As a result of this study, the combined orientation of the SBPs and their influence on GCs is conditional for the creation of green jobs (GJs). In this paper, future research avenues are also proposed for studying employees’ competencies in the narrow context of both subjective and objective perspectives and for research into “golden” GJs, the conditions of the sustainable green labour market and green self-employment development.