Employees' environmentally responsible behavior: the critical role of environmental justice perception

Abstract

The environmentally responsible behavior of employees at the workplace can benefit business organizations in particular and society in general. According to previous studies, positive psychological capital has been used frequently for predicting employees' work attitudes and behaviors. In this article, we are seeking to understand whether people with a higher (lower) level of positive psychological capital À hopeful thinking, optimism, and resilience À engage more (less) in environmentally responsible behaviors in the workplace especially when they perceived a high (low) level of environmental justice To test the study hypotheses, we collected survey data from 196 randomly selected employees working in 35 private small-sized businesses in Bangladesh. This study showed that employees with higher levels of positive psychological capital engage more in environmentally responsible behaviors at the workplace. The results showed that when employees are treated fairly in the workplace, those with a high level of hopeful thinking and resilience are more likely to engage in environmentally responsible behaviors at work.

How does tourist perception lead to tourist hesitation? Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

“…Tourists will learn more about destinations and itineraries from the web interface. However, this approach raises questions as to whether the contents of the websites reflect the real products accurately (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020a , 2020b ). If the tourism administrators are unable to discuss the particulars of the trips with the tourists at their initial meeting in a sincere way, tourism will definitely miss the participation of a significant component of the industry.…”

“…Wong and Yeh ( 2009 ) investigated the relationship of tourist hesitation with destination decision-making and found evidence of tourists’ perceived risk positively influencing the tourist hesitation. There is still great scope for investigating the dynamics of tourist hesitation from different perspectives (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020a , 2020b ; Hasan et al, 2017 ; Islam et al, 2020 ; Khan et al, 2017a , 2017b ; Park et al, 2019 ). Therefore, it is crucial to find the behavioral issues that demotivate or drive people to hesitate to travel because if tourist hesitation is not properly addressed, it will lead to a lower number of travelers.…”

Conceptual Model of Human Resource Management for the Efficient Management of a Circular Economy

“…Psychological capital is more involved in behavior responsible for the environment in the workplace (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2021). Therefore, the literature proposes three indicators to assess these human resources professional qualification level (PQL), multidisciplinary level (ML) and leadership education level (LLE) (Marino et al, 2018).…”

Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Proenvironmental Behaviour in Hospitality Firms in South Africa

“…In the context of employees, PEB refers to the behaviour engaged by employees that is aligned to environmental sustainability (Wu et al, 2019). Employees are a major actor in the hospitality industry and their involvement is important to environmentally sustainable processes and operations (Ones and Dilchert, 2012;Robertson and Carleton, 2017;Jahanshahi et al, 2021).…”

“…Voluntary PEB is discretionary and done beyond the formal reward and performance-evaluation system of the organisation (Robertson and Barling, 2017;Alzaidi and Iyanna, 2021). The effectiveness of an organisation's sustainability practices depends on the support and contribution of employees especially the discretionary or voluntary behaviour that is beyond the formal performance evaluation system (Robertson and Carleton, 2017;Xiao et al, 2020;Jahanshahi et al, 2021). Zientara and Zamojska (2018) remark that involuntary PEB, although important is not enough to reduce environmental footprint.…”