How Green is my Firm? Workers' Attitudes and Behaviors towards Job in Environmentally Related Firms

Joseph Lanfranchi and Sanja Pekovic ()
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Sanja Pekovic: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEE - Centre d'études de l'emploi - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé

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Abstract: The implementation of environmental standards can be facilitated by motivating workers with pro-social preferences. Therefore, we study if employees working for firms achieving registration for environmental-related standards are more likely to display positive attitudes toward their job, to be actively involved in their jobs and to donate effort. Using a French matched employer-employee database, we find that these "green employees" report a significantly higher perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work. Besides, they are more likely to work uncompensated overtime hours. Finally, if the adoption of environmental standards is shown to have no direct influence on job involvement, we expose how it indirectly impacts job involvement through the mediation of employees' reported perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work.

Keywords: workers' attitudes and behavior; pro-social motivation; environmental-related standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2014, 100, pp.16-29. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.12.019⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.12.019

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