Culture as Context: A Five-Country Study of Discretionary Green Workplace Behavior

Y. Jiang, S.E. Jackson, H. Shim, P. Budhwar, D.W.S. Renwick, C.J.C. Jabbour, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour (), G. Tang, M. Müller-Camen, Marcus Wagner and A. Kim
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Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School

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Abstract: To understand the conditions that support employee green behavior across cultures, we develop and test a conceptual model that describes how normative cues from work team leaders and peers in combination with country cultural norms shape discretionary green workplace behavior. Data from 1,605 employees in five countries indicate that power distance moderates the positive relationships observed between the discretionary green workplace behavior of leaders and their subordinates. In addition, an observed positive relationship between team green advocacy and individual discretionary green workplace behavior held across both collectivistic and individualistic cultures, contrary to our predictions. By taking macro-level cultural context into account and examining its interplay with lower-level work team norms, the study makes a significant contribution to understanding and intervening employees' discretionary green behavior at work. \textcopyright The Author(s) 2022.

Keywords: advocacy; environmental attitudes and behavior; environmental values; environmentalism; green job; leadership; methods\textemdash quantitative; organization; organizational behavior; organizational behavior and the environment; social construction; survey research; working conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Organization and Environment, 2022, 35 (4), pp.499--522. ⟨10.1177/10860266221104039⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/10860266221104039

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