Enabling green spillover

Blazejewski, Susanne; Gräf, Anja; Buhl, Anke; Dittmer, Franziska

doi:10.4324/9781315768953-5

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“…This paper's second contribution is to the HRM literature, especially to studies of HR managers as change agents (Caldwell, 2001; Jewson & Mason, 1986; Kirton et al., 2007; Ulrich, 1997) and to HR's role in environmental activism (Blazejewski et al., 2018; Renwick et al., 2013), by examining collaborative approaches to researching employee activism. Activists' organisational change goals imply reflexivity in thinking about the roles of actors in society.…”

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“…One exception to this negative framing may be found in the emerging literature on HRM and sustainability (e.g., Karatas‐Ozkan et al., 2022), which has emphasised the activist role of HR managers and employees as change agents from within (Blazejewski et al., 2018; Renwick et al., 2013). Such scholarship suggests that rather than suppressing employee activism, HR managers can improve their organisations by developing employees' activist motivations and talents.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“Important for you to be there”: Employee activism and the dialectics of researcher–practitioner collaborations

Ramirez

Islam

2022

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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The current study examines researcher–practitioner collaborations in the context of employee activism, a context in which the role of reflexivity and theorisation relate in unique ways. Specifically, we examine the collaboration between researchers and a practitioner sustainability manager, in the context of an ongoing organisational sustainability campaign at a French business school. Within the context of an ethnographic, participant observer study, we examine how the roles of “theory” and “practice” are distributed in dynamic ways, and how, across the study, roles are challenged and inverted, oscillating in dialectical moments which we term “praxis encounters”. We contribute to growing debates around academic–practitioner collaborations by showing how the roles of researchers and practitioners evolve dialectically over the course of a project, how employee activism may be studied using collaborative approaches, and how human resource managers may support employee activism. We call for future research about the variety of such dynamics across diverse contexts.

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“Important for you to be there”: Employee activism and the dialectics of researcher–practitioner collaborations

Ramirez

Islam

2022

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…In line with this spillover logic, Muster and Schrader (2011) proposed the concept of green work-life balance as a new perspective for GHRM strategies, emphasizing that organizations should encourage their employees both to bring "green ideas and experiences" from their private lives to the workplace and to promote environmental attitudes and behaviors among their fellow employees. An empirical study showed that employees who participated in environmental activism in their private lives readily engaged in high-intensity PEBs, even in non-supportive organizational environments (Blazejewski et al, 2018).…”

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“…Most of this research has focused on how organizational strategy and the environment influence employee PEBs in the workplace; employees' private PEBs have received relatively little attention in the GHRM literature (Muster & Schrader, 2011). Due to the green spillover effect, employees who are intrinsically motivated to behave pro‐environmentally in their private lives are more likely than other employees to commit to corporate environmental initiatives and to help promote their organization's green transformation (Blazejewski et al, 2018). This research sought to enhance understanding of the factors determining employees' PEBs in their private lives.…”

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“…Ranging from joining environmental organizations to engaging in collective environmental protection efforts, group PEBs represent employees' joint efforts to tackle the most difficult environmental problems (Barth et al, 2021). At the organizational level, employees who engage in group PEBs are also likely to volunteer to participate in corporate environmental activities (Blazejewski et al, 2018). Encouraging employees' group PEBs may therefore foster a green organizational culture and pave the way for corporate environmental strategies (Roscoe et al, 2019).…”

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Employees' geographic social identity and group pro‐environmental behaviors: Cross‐cultural evidence from 45 countries

Zeng

Tso

et al. 2022

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Employees' group pro‐environmental behaviors (PEBs) represent employees' collective efforts to combat critical global environmental problems. Drawing on social identity theory, we examined how employees' group PEBs can be inspired by different forms of geographic social identity (i.e., world identity, national identity, and regional identity). We analyzed data from the most recent (seventh) wave of the World Value Survey (2017–2022), which covers 34,951 employees from 45 nations. We found that employees' world identity contributed more than their regional identity and national identity to their engagement in group PEBs, by inducing a green orientation that prioritized environmental protection over economic growth. In addition, we obtained cross‐country evidence that the effect of world identity on green orientation is more pronounced in individualist than in collectivist societies. Our findings help to resolve inconsistencies in prior research regarding the theoretical link between social identity and PEBs and provide actionable insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to facilitate group PEBs in organizations.

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When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: Two experimental studies in the retail and education industries

Guo,

Unsworth,

Bretter

et al. 2024

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By integrating theories of goal proximity and crowding‐out, this research investigates how and when employees' performance of in‐role pro‐environmental behaviors will spill over to future engagement in extra‐role pro‐environmental behaviors. Using two experiments with employees from the retail (N = 338) and education (N = 448) industries, we found a conditional positive spillover effect, mediated by pro‐environmental goal commitment. More specifically, when employees with low intrinsic pro‐environmental motivation received feedback that they had progressed in their in‐role pro‐environmental performance, their extra‐role pro‐environmental behavior intentions increased due to an increased commitment to the pro‐environmental goal. However, when employees had high intrinsic pro‐environmental motivation, this spillover effect was negative (Study 1) or non‐significant (Study 2). To summarize, the positive spillover effect only occurs when employees are not highly intrinsically motivated. Our findings uncover a missing piece in organizational environmental management literature and carry important implications for employee‐oriented initiatives.

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Enabling green spillover

Cited by 8 publications

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“Important for you to be there”: Employee activism and the dialectics of researcher–practitioner collaborations

“Important for you to be there”: Employee activism and the dialectics of researcher–practitioner collaborations

Employees' geographic social identity and group pro‐environmental behaviors: Cross‐cultural evidence from 45 countries

When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: Two experimental studies in the retail and education industries

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