Toward a new measure of organizational environmental citizenship behavior

Jennifer L. Robertson and Julian Barling

Journal of Business Research, 2017, vol. 75, issue C, 57-66

Abstract: Previous work has conceptualized workplace pro-environmental behaviors within the organizational citizenship behavior framework and a scale to measure these behaviors has been developed. The goal of the present research was to address conceptual and psychometric issues of this scale by: (a) conceptualizing organizational environmental citizenship behavior within the dominant target-based framework, (b) developing and refining a new, more comprehensive measure of organizational environmental citizenship behavior and (c) validating this new measure by providing evidence for its content, construct, convergent, discriminant, concurrent, incremental concurrent and nomological validity, and its internal and temporal stability. To this end, six separate studies (N=652) were conducted, which together produced a psychometrically acceptable measure of organizational environmental citizenship behavior. Theoretical and practical implications from this research and direction for future research are discussed.

Keywords: Organizational environmental citizenship behavior; Organizational citizenship behavior; Workplace pro-environmental behavior; Organizational environmental sustainability; Scale development and validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.02.007

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