This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement. The authors provide an overview of green behaviors while clarifying the meaning of the concept and its critical importance to greening employees. By distinguishing between voluntary (e.g., encouraging colleagues to express their ideas about environmental issues), prescribed (e.g., having an obligation to implement environmental policies), and counterproductive (e.g., not caring about water or electricity consumption) behaviors, the book rethinks sustainable development, placing the psychological and environmental dimensions on a par.
Aimed at researchers in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational change, and psychology, this interdisciplinary study proposes a novel approach to sustainability by assessing employee behaviors at work.
Author(s): Virginie Francoeur, Pascal Paillé
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 177
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Positioning the Topic of Green Behaviors
1.2 Green Behaviors: A Developing Field of Study
1.3 The Nature and Complexity of Green Behaviors
1.4 Objectives and Structure
References
2 Rethinking (or Refreshing) the Definition of Green Behaviors
2.1 Green Behavior: A Victim of Its Own Success
2.2 Systematic Reviews: A Tool for Necessary Clarification
2.2.1 Planning: Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
2.2.2 Data Collection: Documentary Research and Creation of a Chain of Keywords
2.3 Some Concluding Remarks
References
3 Three Shades of Green Behaviors: Definitions and Main Issues
3.1 Green Behaviors, Legacy, and an Attempt at Refinement
3.2 Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment (OCBE)
3.2.1 Definitional Developments Over the Years?
3.2.2 Orientation, Influence, and the Nature of OCBEs
3.3 Environmental Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors
3.4 Required Green Task Behaviors
3.5 Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Coding Sheet
References
4 Drivers of Green Behaviors: A Brief Review
4.1 Overview of the Chapter
4.2 What Determines Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment (OCBE)?
4.2.1 Antecedents of Composite OCBE
4.2.1.1 Organizational Practices as Triggers
4.2.1.2 Leadership Style and Supervisor Behaviors
4.2.1.3 Employee Job Attitudes
4.2.1.4 Individual Beliefs, Values, and Affects
4.2.2 Additional Results
4.2.2.1 Determinants of OCBE Eco-Initiatives
4.2.2.2 Determinants of OCBE Eco-Helping
4.2.3 Determinants of Voice OCBE
4.3 What Determines Required Green Task Behavior?
4.3.1 Overview
4.3.2 Causal Chain Triggered by Green HRM
4.3.3 Causal Chain Triggered by the Perception of an Environmental Policy
4.3.4 Causal Chain Triggered by Supervisory Support
4.4 Summary
4.5 What Determines Non-Green Behavior?
4.6 Concluding Remarks
References
5 Research on Green Behaviors: Mapping Trends
5.1 Chapter Overview
5.2 Geographical Trends
5.2.1 Europe
5.2.2 North America
5.2.3 Asia
5.2.4 South America and Africa
5.2.5 Oceania
5.3 Sector Trends
5.3.1 Sector and Geographical Trends
5.4 Reassessment of the Overview of Sectors
5.4.1 Methodological Trends by Continent
5.4.2 Europe
5.4.3 North America
5.4.4 Asia
5.4.5 Oceania
5.5 A Plea for Methodological Plurality in Environmental Management
References
6 The Future of Green Behaviors
6.1 Overview of Chapter
6.2 Intensity and Risk-Taking in Green Behaviors
6.2.1 Key Principles
6.2.2 Potential Unintended Consequences: Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Green Behaviors
6.2.2.1 Principles
6.2.2.2 Some Examples
6.3 Understanding the Motivation Behind Green Behaviors from a Challenging and Affiliative Perspective
6.3.1 Challenging Versus Affiliative: Key Principles
6.3.2 A Nomological Network: Overlap and Distinctiveness Through Affiliative and Challenging
6.4 The Consequences of Green Behaviors
6.4.1 Principles
6.4.2 Evidence
6.5 Polluting Sectors
6.6 Concluding Remarks
References
7 Conclusion
7.1 Summary of Objectives to Accelerate the Ecological Transition in Organizations
7.2 Summary of Key Findings
7.3 Recommendations for Greening Employees
7.3.1 Education, Training, and Feedback
7.3.2 Human Resource Management
References
Index
