Environmental considerations in the organizational context: A pathway to pro-environmental behaviour at work

By Angela Ruepert, K. Keizer, L. Steg, Fridanna Maricchiolo, G. Carrus, A. Dumitru, R. G. Mira, A. Stancu, D. Moza. 2016

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Abstract Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour at work can result in a significant reduction in environmental problems. Research revealed that general environmental considerations such as biospheric values and environmental self-identity are important antecedents of private pro-environmental behaviour. Yet, the question remains whether such general environmental considerations also predict pro-environmental behaviour at work. We propose a parsimonious theoretical model (the VIP-model) in which biospheric values affect personal norms to behave pro-environmentally at work and pro-environmental actions via the environmental self-identity. A study involving a diverse sample of employees from different European organizations supported the VIP-model, showing that biospheric values and environmental self-identity influence personal norms, and that stronger personal norms encouraged various self-reported pro-environmental behaviours at work to some extent. The VIP-model yields promising, cost-efficient strategies to encourage pro-environmental behaviour at work.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

An Investigation of Pro-Environmental Behaviour and Sustainable Development in Malaysia (2020, background): “Some individuals may be inspired to be involved in pro-environmental behaviour by their self-identity and biospheric values [10].”
Can community energy initiatives motivate sustainable energy behaviours? The role of initiative involvement and personal pro-environmental motivation (2018, background): “…related to a wide range of sustainable energy behaviours in households (Gatersleben, Murtagh, & Abrahamse, 2014; Van der Werff, Steg, & Keizer, 2013a, 2013b; Whitmarsh & O’Neill, 2010) and at work (Ruepert et al., 2016), and to involvement in community energy projects (Van der Werff & Steg, 2016).”
Employee workplace spirituality and pro-environmental behavior in the hotel industry (2018, background): “…in pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) in public and private settings (Ozaki, 2011; Steg, Bolderdijk, Keizer, & Perlaviciute, 2014; Tudor, 2011), there is still room for further exploration of employees’ engagement in PEB in the workplace (Ruepert et al., 2016; Temminck, Mearns, & Fruhen, 2015).”
Overcoming the barriers to pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace: A systematic review (2018, background): “The articles analyzed in this review contain similar ideas regarding green actions: for example, in the work of Ruepert et al. (2016) “some employees indicated that they would more often engage in proenvironmental actions at work when the organization would create the right conditions for acting…”
The relationship between Corporate Environmental Responsibility, employees’ biospheric values and pro-environmental behaviour at work (2017, methodology): “To assess energy use behaviour, we employed a methodology developed by environmental scientists, which has successfully been used in earlier studies (Abrahamse & Steg, 2011; Abrahamse, Steg, Vlek, & Rothengatter, 2007; Kramer, Wiersma, Gatersleben, Noorman, & Biesiot, 1998; Ruepert et al., 2016).”