Fostering pro-environmental behavior at work: A self-determination theory perspective

IF 3.6 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS
Matus Maco, Jimin Kwon
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Abstract

With a growing corporate interest in pursuing public goods, numerous firms today endeavor to practice corporate social responsibility. Utilizing a multilevel structural equation modeling approach, we investigated the topic of employees' pro-environmental behavior, contributing to the growing literature on “green” issues in the workplace. We incorporated self-determination theory to examine how individuals' perceptions regarding their corporate environmental policies reflected in firm-level green psychological climate influence their environment-specific self-regulation, and whether support of autonomy, relatedness, and competence psychological needs moderates this relationship. The relationship between environment-specific self-regulation and employees' engagement in pro-environmental behavior was also further explained. Analysis of the data from 649 employees working in 37 major South Korean companies revealed that firm-level green psychological climate is positively related to employees' environment-specific self-regulation and that environment-specific self-regulation is also positively related to their pro-environmental behavior. Moreover, while we found that the positive association between firm-level green psychological climate and employees' environment-specific self-regulation was stronger when they had a higher level of relatedness need satisfaction, interactions between firm-level green psychological climate with autonomy and competence need satisfaction did not demonstrate any significant effects. Theoretical and practical contributions together with suggestions for related future research are discussed as well.

促进工作中的环保行为:自我决定理论视角
随着企业对追求公益事业的兴趣与日俱增,当今许多企业都在努力践行企业社会责任。我们采用多层次结构方程建模方法,对员工的环保行为进行了研究,为有关工作场所 "绿色 "问题的文献做出了贡献。我们结合自我决定理论,研究了企业层面的绿色心理氛围所反映的个人对企业环境政策的看法如何影响他们对特定环境的自我调节,以及自主性、相关性和能力心理需求的支持是否会调节这种关系。此外,还进一步解释了特定环境自我调节与员工参与亲环境行为之间的关系。通过分析在韩国 37 家大型企业工作的 649 名员工的数据,我们发现企业层面的绿色心理氛围与员工的环境特异性自我调节呈正相关,而环境特异性自我调节与员工的亲环境行为也呈正相关。此外,我们还发现,当员工的相关性需求满足程度较高时,公司层面的绿色心理氛围与员工的环境特定自我调节之间的正相关性更强,但公司层面的绿色心理氛围与自主性和能力需求满足之间的交互作用并未显示出任何显著效果。本研究还讨论了理论和实践方面的贡献,以及对未来相关研究的建议。
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