How and When Does Perceived CSR Affect Employees’ Engagement in Voluntary Pro-environmental Behavior?

Qing Tian () and Jennifer L. Robertson ()
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Qing Tian: Macau University of Science and Technology
Jennifer L. Robertson: Western University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, vol. 155, issue 2, No 5, 399-412

Abstract: Abstract Scholarly interest in employees’ voluntary pro-environmental behavior has begun to emerge. While this research is beginning to shed light on the predictors of workplace pro-environmental behavior, our understanding of the psychological mechanisms linking the various antecedents to employees’ environmentally responsible behavior and the circumstances under which any such effects are enhanced and/or attenuated is incomplete. The current study seeks to fill this gap by examining: (a) the effects of perceived corporate social responsibility on employees’ voluntary pro-environment behavior; (b) an underlying mechanism that links CSR perceptions to these behaviors; and (c) a boundary condition to these relationships. Data from 183 supervisor-subordinate dyads employed in large- and medium-sized casinos and hotels in Guangdong China and Macau revealed that employees’ corporate social responsibility perceptions indirectly affect their engagement in voluntary pro-environmental behavior through organizational identification, and these effects are stronger for employees high in empathy.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; Employee voluntary pro-environmental behavior; Organizational identity; Organizational environmental sustainability; Empathy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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