The Effect of Corporate Greenwashing on Employees’ Environmental Performance: Person–Organization Values Fit Perspective

Guosen Miao, Guoping Chen, Fan Wang () and Anupam Kumar Das
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Guosen Miao: Evergrande School of Management, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Guoping Chen: Evergrande School of Management, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
Fan Wang: School of Economic and Management, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou 341000, China
Anupam Kumar Das: Department of Management, University of Chittagong, Chattogram 4219, Bangladesh

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: In the present study, we construct a model of greenwashing on employees’ environmental performance based on person–organization fit theory. Path analysis and hierarchical regression methods were used to examine randomly selected data collected from 269 employees in eight Chinese gas service and chemical production companies. The results of the analysis reveal that employees’ perceived person–organization values fit mediates the relationship between organizational greenwashing and employees’ environmental performance; employees’ environmental beliefs not only positively moderate the relationship between corporate greenwashing behavior and employees’ perceived person–organization values fit, but also positively moderate the indirect effect of employees’ perceived person–organization values fit between organizational greenwashing and employees’ environmental performance. We provide some theoretical contributions to organizational greenwashing, and practical implications are also offered.

Keywords: corporate greenwashing; perceived person–organization values fit; environmental belief; environmental performance; P–O fit theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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