Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries

IF 2.4 4区管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Baltic Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1108/bjm-05-2022-0195

N. Saifulina, Adolfo Carballo‐Penela, Emilio Ruzo‐Sanmartín

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Abstract

PurposeSuccessful stimulation of employee engagement in pro-environmental behavior (PEB) at work can reduce organizational environmental footprint and boost its green performance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the individual factors that may promote such behavior at work, offering a complex model with mediating relationships not studied before.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper data was collected through a survey of 331 bank employees from different banks in Kazakhstan and Ecuador. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships between the different constructs.FindingsThe results identified that environmental values and attitudes mediate the relationship between (1) personal environmental awareness and (2) environmental concern and employees' voluntary PEB at work. Harmonious environmental passion (HEP) mediates the relationship between environmental values and attitudes and employees' voluntary PEB at work.Practical implicationsThis study presents important organizational policymaking implications with regard to organizational greening. The importance of environmental awareness is underlined, guiding managers to offer environmental education and training to the employees with the aim of improving environmental knowledge that may lead to employees' voluntary PEB at work. Also, managers should work on enhancing HEP.Originality/valuePrior literature on this topic is still scarce. This research presents important contributions by discussing how individual antecedents may act as stimuli of employees' voluntary PEB at work in the context of the banking sector in two emerging countries that are often neglected by prior literature.

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个人环境意识和环境关注对员工自愿亲环境行为的影响:新兴国家的中介分析

目的成功激发员工在工作中的环保行为（PEB），可以减少组织的环境足迹，提高其绿色绩效。本文的目的是调查可能在工作中促进这种行为的个体因素，提供一个以前没有研究过的具有中介关系的复杂模型。设计/方法/方法本文通过对哈萨克斯坦和厄瓜多尔不同银行的331名银行员工的调查收集数据。使用结构方程建模来测试不同构造之间的关系。研究结果表明，环境价值观和态度在（1）个人环境意识和（2）环境关注与员工工作中的自愿PEB之间起着中介作用。和谐环境激情（HEP）在环境价值观和态度与员工工作中的自愿PEB之间起着中介作用。实际含义本研究提出了关于组织绿化的重要组织决策含义。强调了环境意识的重要性，指导管理人员向员工提供环境教育和培训，以提高环境知识，从而使员工在工作中自愿进行PEB。此外，管理者应该致力于提高HEP。独创性/价值以前关于这个主题的文献仍然很少。这项研究通过讨论个人前因如何在两个新兴国家的银行业背景下刺激员工在工作中的自愿PEB做出了重要贡献，而这两个国家往往被先前的文献所忽视。

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Baltic Journal of Management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： The Baltic region has experienced rapid political and economic change over recent years. The challenges to managers and management researchers operating within the area are often different to those experienced in other parts of the world. The Baltic Journal of Management contributes to an understanding of different management cultures and provides readers with a fresh look at emerging management practices and research in the countries of the Baltic region and beyond.