Corporate social responsibility and pro‐environmental behavior at workplace: The role of moral reflectiveness, coworker advocacy, and environmental commitment

Afsar, Bilal; Umrani, Waheed Ali

doi:10.1002/csr.1777

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“…Although numerous studies have examined employee commitment’s determinants and outcomes, according to Paillé and Valéau [ 73 ] employees’ environmental commitment has recently resurfaced in work environment research. Thus, our results are not only in accordance with the existing research on employees’ environmental commitment [ 93 ], but they extend the field by uncovering the impacts of ethical leadership and green psychological climate on employees’ environmental commitment, an area that has not been jointly considered to date. Therefore, we call for more research to verify the results of the present study.…”

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Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

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Qadeer

Mahmood

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In this era of globalization, preventing organizations from undermining and degrading the environment has become a great challenge, especially when considering that organizations are among the major contributors to environmental deterioration. As a result, scholars have recently begun to focus on understanding the key determinants of employee green behavior (EGB), a nascent field within the area of sustainable development and organizational behavior. This study extends the emerging discussion over EGB by investigating how green behavior can be inculcated into employees’ mindsets and under what conditions this can best be accomplished. The present research examines the relationship between ethical leadership and EGB by the mediating mechanisms of green psychological climate, employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and employees’ environmental commitment, through the underpinnings of social learning theory. Further, the study examines the contingency effects of leaders’ pro-environmental attitudes to determine how leaders with ethical attributes and pro-environmental attitudes can create a green psychological climate that ultimately leads to EGB through employees’ harmonious environmental passion and employees’ environmental commitment. The approach to implementing theory development is deductive as the research employed a quantitative research design and survey administration with a time-lagged approach. Multi-level data were collected from 400 respondents working in public and private sector hospitals and universities in Pakistan. The analysis was conducted in MPlus. The results show positive and statistically significant effects of ethical leadership on EGB through the serial mediations of a green psychological climate and employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and a green psychological climate and employees’ environmental commitment. Moreover, the leaders’ pro-environmental attitude contingency strengthens the indirect impact of ethical leadership on EGB. This research provides several managerial implications through which organizations can strategically concentrate on EGB, including saving energy by turning off unused lights, reducing waste, and recycling.

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Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

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“…It should be highlighted that after a review of the most significant and recent works students' pro-environmental behaviour, such as [22,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], no similar research was found. In addition, previous empirical studies on pro-environmental behaviour have been conducted in relation to environmental commitment [37][38][39], environmental consciousness [40,41], lifestyle practices [42], green lifestyle [5,43], and self-efficacy [13,[44][45][46][47]. However, these studies were conducted in different contexts.…”

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An Investigation of Pro-Environmental Behaviour and Sustainable Development in Malaysia

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This study aimed to examine the role of environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy in influencing pro-environmental behaviour. Data were obtained through a survey of 72 students at one of the training centers in Malaysia. The hypothesized relationships were tested using partial least squares (PLS) methodology. Results showed that environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy positively influenced pro-environmental behaviour, thereby providing new insights to existing literature on environmental sustainability. The results may be used by educational institutions, the government, and private agencies to strengthen students’ knowledge, attitude, and behaviour that support environment-based education. The scope of the study was limited to students at a training center, so the results may not be generalizable to different settings. Another limitation was that the study used limited contextual elements. The novelty of this study is that it examined the role of environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy as determinants of pro-environmental behaviour among students in an educational setting in Malaysia.

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“…Ren et al (2018) suggested that contextual variables affect the psychological process of employees, which leads to the practice of EGB. For instance, the study by Afsar and Umrani (2020) showed that CSR activities affect the moral reflectiveness of employees, which leads to their EGB.…”

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Exploring the Interplay of Green Human Resource Management, Employee Green Behavior, and Personal Moral Norms

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The rapid degradation of today’s environment has required the governments and organizations to introduce effective countermeasures. Governments have enforced green policies, and organizations have drawn on these policies to implement environmentally friendly workplace practices. The success of these practices is very much dependent on the employees and the extent of their green behavior. As such, there is a need to determine whether green behavior can be positively influenced by other variables. One of the suggested influencing variables is green human resource management (HRM). Another variable with the potential mediating effect is personal moral norms (PMN). Also, there is a need to examine the interplay of green HRM, employee green behavior (EGB), and PMN within the context of higher education institutions (HEIs) as they also take responsibility for protecting the environment. It is believed that to date, studies of this nature have not involved academics at HEIs in Malaysia. This study aims to examine the mechanism by which green HRM affects EGB of academics at Malaysian HEIs through PMN as mediator. Data were collected through a cross-sectional quantitative survey among 425 academics at five research universities in Malaysia. The analysis was performed using Smart PLS version 3.2.8. There was a positive significant relationship between green HRM and PMN and a positive significant relationship between PMN and EGB. Hence, green HRM had an effect on EGB through the mediating role of PMN. However, there was no significant direct relationship between green HRM and EGB. Other studies have investigated the effects of several mediating variables in the relationship between green HRM and EGB; however, the effect of one variable—PMN—has not been examined. This study, as it investigates the vital aspect of behavioral formation, is believed to be the first study that examines the mediating role of PMN in the interplay between green HRM and EGB of academics. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed in this study.

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Corporate social responsibility and pro‐environmental behavior at workplace: The role of moral reflectiveness, coworker advocacy, and environmental commitment

Cited by 187 publications

References 123 publications

Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

An Investigation of Pro-Environmental Behaviour and Sustainable Development in Malaysia

Exploring the Interplay of Green Human Resource Management, Employee Green Behavior, and Personal Moral Norms

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