Investigating willingness to save energy and communication about energy use in the American workplace with the attitude-behavior-context model

Xu, Xiaojing; Maki, Alexander; Chen, Chien; Dong, Bing; Day, Julia K.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.02.011

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“…In order for employees to be even more motivated to perform voluntary pro-environmental behavior, employers can engage in interpersonal communication, which is a key means of fostering cooperation [41,42]. Social cues focus on communication that aims to inform, explain to, or persuade others about pro-environmental behaviors.…”

Section: Social Cuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explicating Perceived Sustainability-Related Climate: A Situational Motivator of Pro-Environmental Behavior

Leung¹,

Rosenthal²

2019

Sustainability

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Individuals take cues from their surroundings when deciding whether to perform pro-environmental behaviors. Previous studies have acknowledged the role of structural, policy, and communication efforts to encourage pro-environmental behavior. Such studies demonstrate the importance of evaluating the external contexts when examining behaviors. Yet, there is a lack of explication of what external context is entailed. Expanding the concept of perceived sustainability-related climate (PSRC) used in organizational communication literature, this study proposes two dimensions that shape PSRC in the workplace—structural cues and social cues. The study then generalizes PSRC such that it is applicable in contexts beyond the workplace and proposes a 10-item scale to measure PSRC. Using confirmatory factor analysis, this study tests the factor structure and concurrent validity of the concept. The study also tests convergent validity of PSRC with social norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitudes.

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Section: Social Cuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explicating Perceived Sustainability-Related Climate: A Situational Motivator of Pro-Environmental Behavior

Leung¹,

Rosenthal²

2019

Sustainability

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“…The organizations are likely to promote energy-saving intentions and behaviors through enhanced descriptive norms in shared offices, where employees experience a high level of social interactions, and their behaviors are typically observable by others. This approach has been proven effective in a few studies (Carrico and Riemer, 2011;Xu et al, 2017). When this type of norm is hardly observable in single-person offices, then it is more crucial to have clear organizational rules or rewards for energy-saving behavior and to internalize the injunctive norms.…”

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“…As a result, occupants tend to view energy saving as the responsibility of their organization rather than their own (Li et al, 2019). In fact, when the goal or practice of energy saving is not mentioned by the employers, saving energy can be viewed as irrelevant to their job duties and sometimes even counterproductive (Xu et al, 2017). Second, the sense of responsibility may diffuse even more with the number of occupants in the shared space (De Young, 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A growing body of research has now started to investigate factors, especially the social-psychological factors, that contribute to office energy efficiency in a holistic way (Zhang et al, 2013;Li et al, 2017Li et al, , 2019Xu et al, 2017). This study explored the important factors that are likely to drive or impede workplace energy saving, using an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model (Ajzen, 1991).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Saving at Work: Exploring the Role of Social Norms, Perceived Control and Ascribed Responsibility in Different Office Layouts

Chen

et al. 2020

Front. Built Environ.

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Reducing energy consumption in office buildings is critical for improving energy efficiency and decarbonization at the large scale. This study (N = 854) investigated the influence of social-psychological factors on energy-saving intention and behaviors in single-person versus shared offices based on the extend model of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). We found that ascription of responsibility, a variable added to the TPB, is the strongest predictor of energy-saving intentions for both single-person and shared offices. Interestingly, while injunctive norms are an important predictor of behavioral intention for single-person offices, descriptive norms are an important one for shared offices. Energy-saving intention mediates the influences of the aforementioned variables on energy-saving behaviors. Contrary to our hypotheses, perceived control over energysaving and perceived ease of access to building control features have no direct impacts on energy-saving behaviors in single-person offices, while they have impacts on energysaving behaviors in shared offices. This study provides useful insights for building designers and occupant behavior and energy modeling researchers.

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“…Though different methods are applied to investigate the behavioral impact on energy consumption in public and office buildings (e.g., case studies, interviews, benchmark analyses), about one-third of the reviewed papers [11,19,31,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] applied questionnaire surveys.…”

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Energy Consumption in Public Buildings: The Determinants of Occupants’ Behavior

2020

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Considering the critical amount of power consumption in public buildings, sustainable energy use in the workplace can present an opportunity to tackle the worldwide problem of climate change. A systematic literature review revealed that, though the majority of scientific papers emphasize the importance of appliances and new technologies, human behavior in this area is not less significant. It can contribute to the reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions and address a number of environmental issues. The main purpose of this work is to analyze and compare the research performed on the topic of the determinants of sustainable energy consumption and investigate their impacts on the behavior of employees in three public buildings in Greece. The questionnaire survey discloses that, despite the organizations paying the bill, the employees believe that saving energy at work is important. The results also show that female employees feel more responsible for energy problems, such as the exhaustion of energy sources or global warming. Finally, a regression analysis affirms that the willingness to save a substantial amount of energy at the workplace is greater when employees have higher personal norms, that is, they feel morally obliged to consider the environment and nature in their daily behavior.

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Investigating willingness to save energy and communication about energy use in the American workplace with the attitude-behavior-context model

Cited by 65 publications

References 61 publications

Explicating Perceived Sustainability-Related Climate: A Situational Motivator of Pro-Environmental Behavior

Explicating Perceived Sustainability-Related Climate: A Situational Motivator of Pro-Environmental Behavior

Energy Saving at Work: Exploring the Role of Social Norms, Perceived Control and Ascribed Responsibility in Different Office Layouts

Energy Consumption in Public Buildings: The Determinants of Occupants’ Behavior

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